The Undocumented Student Program invites you to complete this application for the Transcending Beyond Berkeley Fellowship! This is meant to provide students with professional development opportunities regardless of their immigration status. The number of students we are able to accept for the fall 2020 semester is limited. Description of program: Selected student participants within the program will attend a virtual seminar class/workshop (1.5 hrs a week). The seminar will focus on career development skills such as entrepreneurship, professional leadership, team building, communication, delegation, problem-solving, networking, and much more. The program will pair students with a campus partner (the History of Art V-Lab is a campus partner!) to receive guidance to carry out a project that supports the department/unit/program’s goal. Student participants will be paired with campus partners. Students will complete 130 hours of service per semester with the hosting unit. Each student participant will receive a $4,000 scholarship in the academic year ($2,000 in the fall and $2,000 in the spring). At the end of the academic year, students will showcase their project/learning outcomes. Fellow Expectat... [show more]

We are proud to celebrate some of the recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our graduate students.

Graduate Predoctoral Fellowships/Awards

Lesdi Goussen Robleto -Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship -Center for Race and Gender Grant Claire Ittner -Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art (Ellen Holtzman Fellowship) -Smithsonian Institute Predoctoral Fellowship (Will Barnet Fellowship) Andrea Jung-An Liu  -Dr. and Mrs. James C.Y. Soong Fellowship -Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship -Toshio Watanabe Study Abroad Scholarship -Interuniversity Center for Japanese Language Studies Riad Kherdeen -Center for Middle East Studies Sultan Program Graduate Fellowship Grant -Center for Middle Eastern Studies Stevens Scholar Rebecca Levitan -Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Emeline Hill Richardson Rome Prize Mary Lewine  -Kajima Foundation for the Arts Grant Tausif Noor -Malini Chowdhury Fellowship for Bangladesh Studie Angela Pastorelli Sosa -Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award Ariana Pemberton -Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award -British Studies Travel Fellowship -Malini Chowdhury Fellowship for Bangladesh Studies Yessica Porra... [show more]

Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards

Jess Bailey Paul Mellon Centre Junior Fellowship, London, UK Sarah Cowan National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Ramón de Santiago -Summer 2020 FLAS Fellowship for Tagalog Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded by the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley -Travel Award for the Study of Indigenous Languages (Nahuatl) awarded by the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley -Mellon Foundation Curatorial Preparedness and Object-Based Learning Grant for Travel awarded by the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley Ellen Feiss Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Jez Flores Outstanding GSI Award Claire Ittner Chester Dale Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Riad Kherdeen ABD Graduate Student Research Grant in International Studies from Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies Grace Kuipers Summer Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies,  Verónica Muñoz-Nájar  Chester Dale Predoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Yessica Porras  Mellon International Dissertation Research F... [show more]

Undergraduate Achievements

Nada Hosking (BA 2014) Executive Director of Global Heritage Fund Gabriella Wellons (BA 2018) A paid summer internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art  

Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards

J.G. Bailey European Research Council Consolidator Grant: Global Horizonte in der Kunst des Mittelaters, Universität Bern Ramón de Santiago Tinker Foundation grant Center for Latin American Studies Summer Field Research Grant Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Nahuatl Language Study Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award Scholarship, Rare Book School, "The Art & Science of Cartography, 200–1550 CE," University of Virginia Karine Douplitzky France–Berkeley Fund Fellowship with Professor Todd Olson to collaborate with Ann Lafont (Director of Studies EHESS, France) (2018–19) Susan Eberhard CASVA Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship E. C. Feiss Ellen Holzman Fellow, Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum [Declined] Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship Stephanie Hohlios Dissertation research fellowship for 2019–20... [show more]

Undergraduate Awards

Tobias Rosen
Honorable Mention from the Undergraduate Library Research Prize for his essay “Decapitating the Academie”

Gabriella Wellons
A paid summer internship in the Museum Voices program at the Princeton University Art Gallery

Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards

Sarah Louise Cowan
Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship

Ramón de Santiago
Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for intensive study of Nahuatl at the University of Utah

Thadeus Dowad
CASVA’s three-year Paul Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to complete an intensive Ottoman language program in Turkey

Susan Eberhard
CLIR Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
Terra Foundation International Research travel grant
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) grant

Ellen Feiss
Chester Dale fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum (declined)
Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency, Giverny, France
Outstanding GSI Award

Jessica ... [show more]

Undergraduate Awards Verenice Ramirez Getty Undergraduate Multicultural Internship Ramon de Santiago Haas Scholar - twenty highly qualified, academically talented undergraduates come together to build a supportive intellectual community during their final year at UC-Berkeley McNair Scholar - prepares selected UC Berkeley undergraduates for graduate study Ryan Serpa Summer Undergraduate Research Award - to conduct research in the eastern United States for an honors thesis on Bay Area Figurative Painting, advised by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby Gabriella (Nunez) Wellons George A. Miller Scholar - provides outstanding community college transfer students with a research and community service stipend Jessy Bell Mathilde Andrews Berkeley's Institute of International Studies (IIS) Undergraduate Merit Scholarship supports undergraduate research in any area of international studies. Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards Sarah Cowan Fellowship for Research at Emory College; Mellon Curatorial Internship Award Jessica (Jez) Flores CASVA Summer Travel Award for American Art Historians Andrew Griebeler Dumbarton Oaks Dissertation Fellowship Townsend Fellowship CASVA Finley ... [show more]

The department would like to recognize and congratulate four of our students -- Alexandra Courtois de Vicose, Aaron Hyman, Grace Harpster, Michelle "Micki" McCoy --  for winning competitive predoctoral fellowships. Micki and Aaron received fellowships from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts  (CASVA), Alexandra won an award from the George Lurcy Fellowship Program, and Grace received The Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Award. Please read more below about these fellowship winners and their research. Alexandra Courtois de Vicose, 2015-16 Georges Lurcy Fellow, works on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the perceived marginality of his art and persona, and the critical rhetoric assessing his oeuvre as stemming from a ‘deviant body.’ Rather than focus on a medical diagnosis as cause for his artistic choices, Alexandra turns to the society in which Lautrec lived and created. Using a Disability Studies framework to formulate a nuanced sociological and cultural construction of disability in late nineteenth-century Paris, Alexandra proposes to frame Lautrec’s oeuvre and life in a new light. Using a selection of photographs, drawings, paintings and prints, she investigates how his construction... [show more]