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Congratulations to Henrike on her award!

After winning, a few weeks, ago the category Art History / Criticism, Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility has now also won the PROSE award for excellence in Humanities, as one of four top winners across all categories of the year....Read more about Henrike Lange has received the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for excellence in Humanities

Be a shining star!

Henrike Lange’s book, Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility (Cambridge University Press), has won the 2024 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism. The AAP’s annual PROSE Awards recognize significant contributions in scholarly...Read more about Henrike Lange has received the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism

Congratulations to Elizabeth Fair for being chosen for the 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art award.

See details here: https://www.acls.org/news/acls-...Read more about Elizabeth Fair is 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art

Congratulations to Aglaya Glebova. Her book Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin has won the Modernist Studies...Read more about Aglaya Glebova's book wins the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Eclipse and Revelation, Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts, edited by Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish.

From the Oxford University Press website: Two questions guide this seven-year...Read more about New publication by Henrike Lange

The department congratulates PhD student Michele D’Aurizio for securing a Spring 2024 appointment as a predoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, at Max Planck Institute for Art History in Florence, Italy. While in residence at the Max Planck Institute, Michele will be at work on the...Read more about Michele D’Aurizio named a Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute

Berkeley News has published an article about the BAMPFA pop-up exhibition which was the final project for Professor Sugata Ray’s Art and Climate Change, a course offered as part of a new program for first-year students by the College of Letters and Science.

Read the article...Read more about Student exhibition highlights art, science and new pathways

What can art, architecture, design, and performance practices offer to current debates on climate change and environmental justice? Curated by students in UC Berkeley Professor Sugata Ray’s Fall 2023 College of Letters & Science First-Year Pathways course...Read more about 5 tables of Art and Climate Change

The department is pleased to announce the publication of The Imagined New, (or, what happens when History is a Catastrophe?) Working through Alternative Archives | Art,...Read more about New Publication By Zamansele Nsele

The department is pleased to announce that an essay by Whitney Davis, on James McNeill Whistler’s appropriations of Asian folding screens in the early 1870s, will be featured in the catalog for a major international exhibition on Asian and Western screens opening at the Prada Foundation in...Read more about Congratulations to Whitney Davis

The History of Art Department is pleased to announce the publication of Consumption, Ritual, Art and Society:Interpretive Approaches and Recent Discoveries of Food and Drink in Etruria (2023). Edited by Lisa Pieraccini and Laurel Taylor. From the...Read more about New Publication By Lisa Pieraccini

The Department of Art History extends a warm welcome to Shannon Jackson as...Read more about Welcome to the Department

History of Art congratulates PhD student Krishna Shekhawat for winning a 2023 DARTS Grant, endowed by the Decorative Arts Society of Orange County in California, from the Decorative Arts Trust. The grant will support Krishna’s visit to the Mehrangarh Museum Trust in India to study an 18th-...Read more about Krishna Shekhawat awarded DARTS Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust