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The division is proud to announce that Professor Hannah Ginsborg in the Department of Philosophy, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2025. Ginsborg, who has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1988, is recognized for her innovative scholarship on Immanuel Kant’s...Read more about Hannah Ginsborg (Philosophy) Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

UC Berkeley recently welcomed back acclaimed alumnus and professional language creator David J. Peterson, along with his partner and fellow conlanger Dr. Jessie Peterson, for a day of conversation, creativity, and career insight with students in the Division of Arts & Humanities.

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We are proud to share that two exceptional graduate students from the Division of Arts & Humanities have been named 2025–26 Rome Prize Fellows by the American Academy in Rome, one of the most esteemed honors in the humanities and arts.

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The Armenian language and literature program at Berkeley will be supported in perpetuity thanks to an effort led by alum Eric Esrailian (B.A. ‘96 Integrative Biology) and his family.

When Dr. Esrailian first came to Berkeley in the early 1990s, it...Read more about “It’s part of our identity.” New endowed fund will support Armenian language and literature at Berkeley

On a sunny Saturday in March, dozens of onlookers watched Jasmine Nyende charge, pull, twist, and duck under ropes held by six other performers. Nearby, portable speakers blared punk rock. Nyende’s performance — titled “Sankofa Moshpit” — was a joyful memorial to her late friend, Láwû. It...Read more about Out in Richmond, an unusual facility hosts UC Berkeley’s MFA art studios

It’s hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition where a stimulus that affects one sense prompts a response in a different sense, was first documented. Scientific literature marks its beginning in 1812, when it appeared as an aside in a Bavarian medical student’s...Read more about Do vowels have colors? According to some with synesthesia, yes.

Orestes Sophocleous is a re-entry undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. He is majoring in Film and Media with a minor in Rhetoric. He is currently a teaching assistant for Film 155, under professor Nicole Starosielski, on film infrastructure. Outside of academia, Orestes has a...Read more about Between theory and practice: A Re-Entry Student's Experience with Film and Media

This month, The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) at the University of California, Berkeley, launched the Certificate in Global Digital Infrastructure, the...Read more about Professor Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media) launches world's first certificate in internet infrastructure at Berkeley

Nataliia Goshylyk is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, where she teaches Ukrainian. Dr. Goshylyk received her M.A. in Philology from Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, and her PhD in linguistics from Kharkiv National University. She is the...Read more about Language, Identity, and Ecolinguistics: An Interview with Nataliia Goshylyk on Teaching Ukrainian at Berkeley

In the novel Highway Thirteen, we learn about an Australian serial killer in bits and pieces. He kills hitchhikers and tourists, dumping their bodies in a state forest. He drives a taxi. His...Read more about Novel ‘Highway Thirteen’ traces the ripple effects of one man’s violence

South African artist William Kentridge is not interested in being certain. With certainty, he believes, comes a stuckness. Whether as a way of making artwork or in thinking about the world, certainty closes a person off to a more expansive creativity, to seeing all the possibilities that aren’t...Read more about William Kentridge’s ‘The Great Yes, The Great No’ is a voyage of chaos and creativity

Liam McEvoy (MELC) is a recipient of the Psychedelics in Society and Culture grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry.

Few...Read more about Investigating the psychedelic blue lotus of Egypt, where ancient magic meets modern science

Since joining UC Berkeley in 2009, Professor Jacob Dalton has helped shape the university’s Tibetan Studies program, bridging language, religious history, and Buddhist traditions. In this interview, he reflects on the program’s evolution, the challenges of learning...Read more about The Growing Importance of Teaching Tibetan Language and Culture at Berkeley: An Interview with Jacob Dalton

Two new Chancellor’s Chairs will expand access for students, create tenure-track opportunities for up-and-coming scholars, and recognize the groundbreaking work of senior faculty in the fields of dance and performance studies.

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It was exhilarating to sit so close to an opera star. Tenor John Duykers was performing the lead in the chamber opera, Mordrake, and playwright Philip Kan Gotanda could practically feel the singer’s breath on his face. It was 2009, and the audience sat enraptured in a small studio space...Read more about For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera.

Liesl Yamaguchi, Assistant Professor in the Department of French at UC Berkeley, is a scholar and translator whose work bridges 19th-century French literature, poetics, linguistics, literary theory, and translation. In this interview, Professor Yamaguchi reflects on her path to academia, the...Read more about Illuminating Language: Liesl Yamaguchi on Synesthesia, Translation, and the Poetics of Modernity

Inspired by UC Berkeley Professor Frances Hellman and started at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, the Hellman Fellows Fund provides much needed support...Read more about Funding Early-Career Faculty: The Transformative Impact of the Hellman Fellows Program

Alankrita Malhotra is a sophmore and is forging an interdisciplinary path by combining her passions for Data Science and the humanities. Her work on computational folklore and Nordic flavor networks under the guidance of Professor Timothy Tangherlini, who we interviewed for the project...Read more about Data, Poetry, and Nordic Flavor Networks: Alankrita Malhotra’s Journey into Computational Folklore