Congratulations to the members of the Class of 2022 who participated in our Commencement ceremony! Doctoral Degree
Susan Eberhard
Shivani Sud
Bachelor of Arts Degree
Natalie K. Aguilera
Quetzal Arévalo
Haochen Bai
Nicolas Hendrix Bult
Lily Callender
Renée L. Castro-Ring
Marisa Cunanan
Nusheen Ghaemi
Matthew L. Gomberg
Fae Gonzalez-Moosa
Jordan Gonzalez
Eugenia (Snow) Guilfoyle
Christine Haggin
Collette Sweet Marie Keating
Congratulations to our Department Manager, Faith Enemark, who has been awarded the Berkeley Staff Assembly’s 2021 Excellence in Management Award! This significant honor for which there were over 100 nominees recognizes exemplary managers and supervisors who have led their teams and team members to meaningful accomplishments this past year.
Water Moon Reflections: Essays in Honor of Patricia Berger has been recently published by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Spanning two millennia and East and Inner Asia, this volume’s essays highlight Patricia Berger’s vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work.
In this conversation, art critic and Berkeley History of Art PhD student Tausif Noor recently discussed the art exhibition, Botanical Entanglements, currently on view at the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens, from March 12th – 18th, 2022 with environmental artist
Today is Big Give, our annual fundraising blitz, which has been online since 2014. We’re inviting alumni, parents, friends, students, faculty, and staff like you to rally again to support Berkeley and our department. Our amazing students and peerless faculty and staff have responded in many ways to the past eventful year; we invite you to show your support for art history at Berkeley in a time of unprecedented challenge.
As always, we are grateful for your generous support!
The Archaeological Institute of America is pleased to announce that the Gold Medal Committee has selected Professor Andrew F. Stewart as the 2023 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. This award, presented each year at the AIA-SCS Annual Meeting, recognizes distinguished contributions to archaeology, primarily through research and/or fieldwork. The Gold Medal is the highest honor the Institute bestows.
Sugata Ray has been selected as the 2021 winner of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for his book Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 (2019).
Jez Flores-Garcia (PhD ’20) has been named an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow for 2021! She begins a yearlong placement at Johns Hopkins University, where she will teach and continue research on “Camp as a Weapon: Chicano Identity and Asco’s Aesthetics of Resistance.” The program supports early career scholars whose voices, perspectives, and broad visions will strengthen institutions of higher education and humanistic disciplines in the years to come.
Congratulations Jez!
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.
Jess Bailey has published two articles, one about medical museums in the journal Kritische Berichte, and one about disability and sex work in the 16th century in the forthcoming volume Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Present, Routledge, June 2021.