Announcements

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). 

The History of Art Department extends a warm welcome to our newest faculty. 

Shiben Banerji, Associate Professor, Architecture and Urbanism, https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/shiben-banerji

Greetings to Alumni, Students, Faculty, Staff, Supporters, and Partners,

All years have their challenges, but we are living in unprecedented times here in History of Art at UC Berkeley. That said, our department's ability to remain focused on our mission and responsive to dynamic conditions has been nothing short of inspirational.

We have an art history alumna (2010) who won a Pulitzer Prize! She wrote an honors thesis on viceregal Entrada ceremonies in New Spain and compared them to border art interventions. Public humanities!

Congratulations to the Class of 2025 who participated in our Commencement ceremony!