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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

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

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...Read more about Jez Flores-Garcia named ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow

Amy Xiaochen Zhong, History of Art’s Class of 2021 valedictorian, interviewed Assistant Professor Atreyee Gupta as part of the ...Read more about Atreyee Gupta interviewed by Amy Xiaochen Zhong for Asian American Women at Berkeley 150W Project

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...Read more about Highlight on Graduate Student Publications, 2020-2021

Amy Xiaochen Zhong was named our 2021 Valedictorian and delivered a moving address to our community at our May 18 Commencement.

Dane Reeb was named the winner of our 2021 Departmental Citation.

Cara Marie Green won the Andrew Stewart Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research...Read more about History of Art Undergraduate Student Achievements

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

Lesdi Goussen Robleto
-Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
-Center for...Read more about Celebrating Graduate Students 2020-2021

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...Read more about Henrike C. Lange Promoted to the Rank of Associate Professor with Tenure in History of Art and Italian Studies

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

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

...Read more about Congratulations to the Class of 2021

Publisher: Brill / 2020

ISBN: 978-90-04-43002-0Read more about Picturing Death 1200–1600

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,...Read more about New Book by Anneka Lenssen