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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

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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

Congratulations to Sugata Ray on winning an American Academy of Religion 2020 Book Award for Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850 (University of Washington Press)!Read more about Sugata Ray wins AAR 2020 Book Award

Daniel Marcus (Ph.D. 2017) has been appointed Associate Curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University, where he is also a lecturer in the Department of History of Art....Read more about Daniel Marcus appointed Associate Curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts

Emma Silverman (PhD History of Art 2018) has been appointed the ...Read more about Emma Silverman Awarded National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellowship

A new monument honoring suffragists Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony will be the first monument honoring nonfictional women in New York's Central Park. While designing the work, sculptor Meredith Bergmann consulted with historians Nell Irvin Painter, Margaret...Read more about Sojourner Truth in Central Park

Aglaya Glebova received a Graham Foundation Publication Award for her monograph, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Photography in the Age of Stalin (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2021), which reexamines the alleged end of modernism in the 1930s Soviet Union through the photographic work of...Read more about Aglaya Glebova receives Graham Foundation Publication Award