Announcements

Congratulations to Andrea Jung-An Liu, Angela Pastorelli-Sosa, and Michele D’Aurizio, who received their doctoral degrees.

Watch the video in the exhibition at the Legion of Honor, which showcases the Curator, Renee Dreyfus, and Lisa Pieraccini talking about the Etruscans as part of the Legion of Honor exhibit, "The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy," which opened on May 2nd to a large crowd. 

The Etruscans Uncovered is an exhibit in Doe Library’s Bernice Layne Brown Gallery from March 9 until August 31, 2026. The March 11th opening had a record-breaking attendance of over 130 people! (The Consul General of Italy was there).  This exhibit presents a sampling of the large Etruscan collection housed at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, as well as complementary materials from The Bancroft Library.

Chancellor Lyons and his cabinet of about 30 people spent 30 minutes with Lisa Pieraccini at the Etruscan exhibition in the Brown Gallery, Doe Library this morning. His staff reached out to Lisa and asked for a personal visit/lecture. 

The exhibit presents a sampling of the large Etruscan collection housed at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, as well as complementary materials from The Bancroft Library.

Shiben Banerji's book, Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy (University of Texas Press, 2025), has won the 2026 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning. The AAP’s annual PROSE Award Winners exemplify the highest standards of scholarly publishing, contributing innovative research and impactful scholarship to their respective fields Judged by peers, librarians, and professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are truly unique thanks to the extraordinary breadth and dep

Yale Press has published a blog post about Atreyee Gupta's recent book Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India.

Please read the blog post here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/02/04/third-worlds-imagined-otherwise/

Congratulations Atreyee.

Encountering the Etruscans: Shedding Light on Ancient Italy at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum is a student-led exhibit from Lisa Pieraccini’s Fall 2025 seminar, The Etruscans Museums: Provenance, Collection & Curation. The students not only leaned about the Etruscans, but also about how the Etruscan collection at the Hearst Museum was formed. They worked on an array of subjects, such as provenance research, collection history and theories of curation.

Lauren Kroiz just won a publication grant from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for her forthcoming book Living Power: Women's Suffrage and Modern American Art (University of California Press, 2026).