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February 8, 2026

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.

February 2, 2026

The Departments of History of Art and Middle East Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, invite applications for an Assistant, Associate, or Full Adjunct Professor - Arts of Iran and Central Asia, non tenure-track.
Read the entire job description here: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05238

January 13, 2026

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.

December 9, 2025

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). 

September 20, 2025

Between August 20 and December 14, 2025, visitors to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive have the opportunity to learn from a new Teaching Wall exhibition put together by the Berkeley-Stanford Transpacific Asian American Art Histories Working Group.

August 22, 2025

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

July 3, 2025

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.

June 8, 2025

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!

May 22, 2025

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

Doctoral Degree

Lesdi Carolina Goussen Robleto

Bachelor of Arts

Paris Bailey

Djuna Ossie Barricklow

Lily Belcher

Callista Beros

Eve Brock

Daphne Z. Chen

Olivia Fambrough

Audrey Feist

Zichen Guo

Amber Hardisty

Mariana Hernández Resto

Hana Hight

Annika Houck

Sofia Huff

Adrien Jones

Cassandra Kesig

Elisa Kim

Stephanie Kim

May 7, 2025

The second volume of see/saw is out! An undergraduate print journal devoted to publishing original research in art history and art criticism, see/saw was founded at the University of California, Berkeley last year. The 2025 publication (volume 2, issue 1) features work from sixteen contributors, engaging myriad media and formats from documentary photographs found in student periodicals from Native American Boarding Schools to Luzon jars in Manila-based trade to Soviet Neo-primitive folk sculpture.