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The Department of Rhetoric selected Marianne Constable as the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Rhetoric Faculty Fellowship. Constable is a UC Berkeley professor, a leading authority in law and language, and a co-founder of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture,...Read more about Marianne Constable named inaugural Distinguished Rhetoric Faculty Fellow

In this first installment of our interview series with the "Flavor Network" research group, Linda Chon interviewed Professor Tim Tangherlini, a computational folklorist in the department of Scandinavian. Professor Tangherlini leads an innovative project that uses data science to...Read more about Professor Tim Tangherlini and His Student-led Research Team Uses Data Science to Uncover the Evolution of Nordic Flavors Over 200 Years

The Division of Arts & Humanities is proud to announce that Associate Professor of Scandinavian Kate Heslop has been named a co-recipient of the sixteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures. The prestigious award, presented biennially by the...Read more about Associate Professor Kate Heslop (Scandinavian) Receives Prestigious MLA Award for "Viking Mediologies"

Assistant Professor Grace Erny in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies has recently published groundbreaking research offering fresh perspectives on ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Her studies draw on extensive archaeological surveys in Greece and Crete, revealing unexpected...Read more about Grace Erny (Ancient Greek & Roman Studies) Discovers New Insights on Ancient Greek Archaeology

Every night during December 2024, the crown of the Salesforce Tower shows Greg Niemeyer’s data animation, Synchronicity. It’s on from midnight to 1 am, and on Dec 20, 21 and 22, it is on all night long. So if you are near or in San Francisco, look up and enjoy the...Read more about Greg Niemeyer's (Art Practice) "Synchronicity" on view at Salesforce Tower SF

The Division of Arts and Humanities is proud to announce that South and Southeast Asian Studies Assistant Professor Vasugi Kailasam is the 2024 recipient of the Pyrtanean...Read more about Vasugi Kailasam (SSEAS) is the 2024 recipient of the Pyrtanean Faculty Enrichment Award

Kévin Drif is a third-year PhD student in the Department of French, with a designated emphasis in Film and Media Studies. His research largely focuses on cultural representations of children of immigrants in French media, as he explores the ways in which the idea of a French...Read more about Exploring Identity and Interdisciplinarity: A Conversation with Kévin Drif on French Media, Migration, and Cultural Hybridity

In 1872, the first endowed chair in the UC system was established for the teaching of Asian languages. What is now the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures was established in 1896, one of the first such departments in the U.S. But for most of Berkeley’s history,...Read more about New fund helps East Asian Languages and Cultures reflect California's linguistic diversity

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities will boost its fellowship and Art of Writing programs thanks to a generous gift from Matt and Margaret Jacobson. The couple pledged $750,000 to create the Paul Alpers Memorial Fund, honoring the founding director of UC Berkeley’s...Read more about New Townsend Center gift honors visionary founder

Niklaus Largier is Chair in the department of Comparative Literature, is a professor in the departments of German and Comparative Literature, and is affiliated with the Programs in Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, and the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory.

His scholarship covers...Read more about Exploring Mysticism, Aesthetics, and Experience: An Interview with Professor Niklaus Largier

Saagar Asnani is a graduate student in Musicology and Medieval Studies. He focuses particularly on the regions of France, Italy, Occitania, and Catalonia. He works mainly with the relationship between language and music, as his research bridges sociohistorical linguistics with...Read more about Interview: From Biology to Medieval Musicology: Saagar Asnani on Embracing a Passion for the Humanities

In this first-person narrative, Yesenia Ochoa, a first-year student at UC Berkeley, tells UC Berkeley News about her experience being a student from a migrant family and her educational aspirations.

“I grew up in Yuba City. My parents immigrated there from a little...Read more about POV with Yesenia Ochoa: ‘I’m just one of millions of migrant students working hard to achieve their goals’

What role do the humanities play In a world challenged by climate change, rising authoritarianism, censorship, racism, wars and collapsed economies?

The humanities and their forms of historical, visual and cultural literacy are critical to understanding...Read more about World Humanities Report, directed by UC Berkeley’s Sara Guyer, warns of extinction risk to human knowledge

Since joining Berkeley's faculty in the Department of Film & Media last year, Professor Nicole Starosielski has been busy guiding and conducting research with her undergraduate students in a effort to both further research on sustainable internet practices and to help train the next...Read more about Nicole Starosielski's Undergrads Travel to Singapore to Present Research on "A Global Public Humanities Project to Green the Internet"

UC Berkeley’s Department of Music unveiled the new Helen and Thomas Wu Performance Hall in September, following an extensive renovation that was years in the making. The reopened space includes a larger stage, new seats, and state-of-the-art sound, lighting, and digital...Read more about Department of Music opens new performance hall on campus

Professor and Chair of Art Practice Ronald Rael was selected to design one of the 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations for Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial...Read more about Ronald Rael's Site-Specific "Making Home" Exhibition for Cooper Hewitt Triennial: Unearthing the Complex History of Los Conejos, Colorado

According to the prevailing narrative, the state of the humanities is dire. State legislators and far-right journalists attack degrees in these disciplines from ideological angles, while others claim they lack vocational relevance. The numbers don’t lie: Bachelor’s degrees awarded in the...Read more about Chronicle of Higher Education: On Demand: Where the Humanities are Thriving