The Division of Arts & Humanities continues to experience a period of unprecedented faculty hiring, with sixteen new faculty who started in 2023 and additional new faculty incoming for academic years 2024-25 and 2025-26.
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July 19, 2024
Organized through the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships, the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) has introduced countless students to cutting-edge research across all disciplines on Berkeley’s campus. URAP matches undergraduates with faculty members who train them in the skills needed to collaborate on their projects. Faculty and researchers across arts and humanities disciplines have participated in URAP since its founding and continue to mentor students as they become new members of our vibrant research community.
This year, the division awarded seventeen Mellon Project Grants (MPG) to faculty in the East Asian Languages and Cultures; English; Film and Media; French; German; History of Art; Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Music; Spanish and Portuguese; and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies departments. The grants are designed to support professors undertaking significant research projects, particularly those that involve collaboration, publication, exhibition, performance, public humanities projects, or hosting conferences or symposia.
March 20, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Professor David Marno, renowned for his expertise in English literature and unwavering commitment to teaching excellence, has been honored with the prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) at UC Berkeley.
The Diversity Office in the Division of Arts & Humanities is thrilled to announce a new program titled New Directions in Latinx Research in the Arts & Humanities as part of the Advancing Faculty Diversity in the Arts & Humanities Initiative launched last year. The program will launch as a special speaker series featuring the research from three current UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellows.
March 19, 2024
Critical Theory
We are honored to announce that Poulomi Saha, associate professor of English and co-director of the Program in Critical Theory, has received the 2023 American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award.
August 2, 2023
The Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to welcome professor Marié Abe as of July 1, 2023. She is an associate professor in the Department of Music and focuses on the intersection between improvisation and composition.
On July 1, 2023, the Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomed 16 new faculty:
Marié Abe, Department of Music: Marié Abe joins the division as an associate professor in the Department of Music and focuses on the intersection between improvisation and composition.
On July 1, 2023, the Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomed new chairs and directors for 12 departments, centers, and programs:
April 3, 2023
The Division of Arts and Humanities and the College of Letters & Science are delighted to announce that Les Gorske has accepted our offer to become the next Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration for the Division of Arts & Humanities (A&H). Les has been a crucial and valued member of the Dean’s office staff for the last four years.
September 13, 2022
Department of Art Practice
Marine Corps Veteran and Senior Ceramics Mechanician Ehren Tool (MFA’05) is featured in several public events: at the Museum of Northern California Art in Chico on Sept. 17; a Military Insignia Ceramics Workshop on Sunday, Sept.
August 18, 2022
On July 1, 2022, the Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomed new chairs and directors for 10 departments and centers:
July 21, 2022
We’re thrilled to share that SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) will be offering free museum admission to our employees and students during the run of the upcoming exhibition, Diego Rivera’s America. UC Berkeley’s classic Rivera fresco painting ‘Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees’ is included as part of this showcase.
June 16, 2022
Irish Times
Associate Professor Catherine Flynn writes for the Irish Times about her newly-published Cambridge Centenary Ulysses, a facsimile edition of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text featuring James Joyce's own errata as well as references to later amendments, along with maps, photographs, and footnotes, and an essay by leading Joyce scholars.
May 20, 2022
Berkeley Language Center
It has been a busy year for the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) community as we returned to campus and were finally able to join together again in person. We welcomed new faces and said goodbye to dear friends and colleagues, and resumed events previously on hold due to COVID while expanding our programming in exciting ways. Here we highlight some of these amazing events and people and we celebrate this community.
Go to the BLC website to read the full year in review.
May 11, 2022
The Distinguished Teaching Award is the campus's most prestigious honor for teaching and recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact.