Announcements

Amy Xiaochen Zhong, History of Art’s Class of 2021 valedictorian, interviewed Assistant Professor Atreyee Gupta as part of the Spring 2021 Asian American Women at Berkeley 150W URAP/SPUR Projects exploring the representations and experiences of Asian women on the UC Berkeley campus.

We are proud to celebrate some of the recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our graduate students.

Graduate Predoctoral Fellowships/Awards

Lesdi Goussen Robleto
-Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
-Center for Race and Gender Grant

Claire Ittner
-Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art (Ellen Holtzman Fellowship)
-Smithsonian Institute Predoctoral Fellowship (Will Barnet Fellowship)

The Department of History of Art congratulates Professor Henrike C. Lange on her promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Professor Lange is a scholar of Italian and European medieval and early modern art, architecture, history, visual culture, and literature.

Congratulations to the members of the Class of 2021 who participated in our Commencement ceremony!

Doctoral Degree

Thadeus Dowad, 2021
Sasha Rossman, 2021
Miriam K. Said, 2020
Andrew Sears, 2021

Anneka Lenssen has published Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics (UC Press). Based on more than a decade of research, in Syria (until 2011) and elsewhere, the book traces the interplay of vitalist painting theories and the making of Syria as a contested territory between 1900 and 1965.

Congratulations to Sugata Ray on winning an American Academy of Religion 2020 Book Award for Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850 (University of Washington Press)!

Daniel Marcus (Ph.D. 2017) has been appointed Associate Curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University, where he is also a lecturer in the Department of History of Art. Congratulations, Daniel! 

Emma Silverman (PhD History of Art 2018) has been appointed the Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the National Park Service, where she will be working on a project about racial justice, practices of commemoration, and public monuments.