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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

The Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Indigenous and/or Pre-colonial and/or Colonial Art and Visual Cultures of Latin America, tenure-track.

The Department seeks candidates maintaining an active research...Read more about Search: Assistant Professor in Indigenous and/or Pre-colonial and/or Colonial Art and Visual Cultures of Latin America

History of Art congratulates PhD student Christine Delia for winning funding from the University of California MX’s 2023 call for proposals for Short-Term Research in Mexico by UC graduate studentsThe aim of these funded short-term stays is to support graduate...Read more about Christine Delia awarded a University of California Alianza MX award

We are proud to celebrate recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by some of our spectacular graduate students. Congratulations, all!!!

Fellowships and Grants

Elizabeth Fair

– Smithsonian American Art Museum...Read more about Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2022-2023

The annual newsletter is now here! Thanks to everyone who contributed texts and photographs, thanks to staff for assistance, thanks to Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, and Justin Underhill, editors, and thanks especially to Julie Wolf for her great work as designer. And thank you BA alumni...Read more about Newsletter 2023

What can 16th-century India teach us about 21st-century California? Sugata Ray’s book Climate Change and the Art of Devotion explores the impacts of climate change on art, architecture, and religion in northern India during the repeated monsoon failures of the 16th through 19th centuries....Read more about Sugata Ray’s book ‘Climate Change and the Art of Devotion’ explores the impacts of climate change

Congratulations to the members of the Class of 2023 who participated in our Commencement ceremony!

I am delighted to share that my student, Hana Kozuka, has been selected as a winner for the Charlene Conrad Liebeau Research Prize. Hana was a student in my R1B from last semester, "Bodily Possession: The Collection Impulse and the Origins of Modern Medical Museums in the Western World...Read more about Charlene Conrad Liebeau Research Prize

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Painting the Inhabited Landscape, Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America (2023). From the Penn State University Press website: The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to...Read more about New Publication by Margaretta M. Lovell