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]

Mellon Initiative for Graduate Study in Curatorial Preparedness and Object-Based Learning Graduate students in History of Art at Berkeley have the option of participating in a three-year pilot program sponsored by the Mellon Foundation supplementing academic training with curatorial skills. Starting in the fall of 2013, graduate seminars will have more museum, collection, and site visits, and a new course will be offered on object analysis in museum conservation studios and sites of production.  Students will also have the opportunity to help produce an exhibition using Berkeley’s far-ranging object collections.   Additionally, each semester an advanced graduate student will have the opportunity to intern in a collection rich in the materials that form the focus of his or her special expertise. In Fall 2013 William Ma will be at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.  In Spring 2014 Laure Marest-Caffey will be at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, serving as Curatorial Intern.  She will be working on exhibition, acquisition, and research projects in the Department of Art of the Ancient World, Classical Section, as well as studying the MFA's remarkable collection of Hellenistic portrait g... [show more]