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We are very proud to celebrate (a bit belatedly) some of the recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our graduate students over the course of last academic year–now supporting advanced training and innovative scholarship!

Graduate...Read more about Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2021-2022

Thursday, October 6

Kamini Vellodi

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Theory, and History of Art and Director of Research Excellence, Edinburgh College of Art,University of Edinburgh, UK

“Diagramming ‘World Art’”

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Nana Adusei-Poku

Dr. Nana Adusei-Poku is joining us as an assistant professor in African Diasporic art history this Fall ’22. Her research and teaching interests include four central themes or areas: artistic production from the African Diasporas; cultural shifts and their articulation at...Read more about Welcome New Faculty 2022-2023

Professor Emerita Joanna G. Williams, distinguished scholar of South and Southeast Asian art, passed away at her home in Berkeley on June 16, 2022, at the age of eighty-four. She was one of the foremost scholars of South and Southeast Asian art and architecture and, indeed, one of the most well-...Read more about Professor Emerita Joanna G. Williams obituary

We are excited to share with you the 2021-2022 issue of our departmental newsletter. A huge thanks goes to Julia Bryan-Wilson, Justin Underhill, Heather Reilly, and Julie Wolf.Read more about Newsletter 2021 - 2022

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...Read more about Congratulations to our class of 2022

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...Read more about Congratulations to our class of 2022

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...Read more about Faith Enemark Wins Excellence in Management Award

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...Read more about Water Moon Reflections: Essays in Honor of Patricia Berger

In this conversation, art critic and Berkeley History of Art PhD student Tausif Noor recently discussed the art exhibition,...Read more about Botanical Entanglements exhibition – a conversation with Tausif Noor and Juniper Harrower

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...Read more about Big Give is here!

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...Read more about Andrew Stewart has been awarded the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).

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). In nominating him...Read more about Sugata Ray awarded the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain’s 2021 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion