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The Division of Arts and Humanities is thrilled to announce that Assistant Professors Ezra Rubenstein and Verónica...Read more about Philosophy Assistant Professors Ezra Rubenstein and Verónica Gomez Sanchez awarded the 2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics

In 2021, when Sara Guyer became dean of arts and humanities for the College of Letters and Science, it was a time of profound uncertainty nationwide for higher education — and for the humanities, in particular. To this day, university leaders across the nation continue to grapple...Read more about Berkeley Reappoints Sara Guyer as Dean Following Major Expansion in Arts & Humanities

We are thrilled to announce that Assistant Professor Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed has been awarded the 2026 ...Read more about Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture, named the 2026 Claremont Publication Prize

The Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce Fumi Okiji as the new Director of the Arts Research Center (ARC), starting July 1, 2026.

Okiji is a performer and theorist whose work moves across Black studies, critical...Read more about Fumi Okiji appointed as new Director of the Arts Research Center

Dr. Grace Erny, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, is the recipient of the 2026 Prytanean Honor Society Alumnae Faculty Enrichment Award...Read more about Dr. Grace Erny receives the 2026 Prytanean Honor Society Alumnae Faculty Enrichment Award

I love teaching medieval and early modern literature, early modern and contemporary political philosophy, and tragedy from Aeschylus to Suzan-Lori Parks, but my purpose as a teacher is,...Read more about Oliver Arnold on Teaching Shakespeare—2026 Distinguished Teaching Awardee

I teach linguistics as a set of tools for seeing what is usually taken for granted: how language...Read more about Jhonni Carr on Teaching Through Community & Analysis—2026 Distinguished Teaching Awardee

For centuries, scholars and artists alike have wondered: What makes Shakespeare Shakespeare? What gives his...Read more about Why we still can’t get enough of Shakespeare after all these centuries

As the days stretch toward the summer solstice — the longest day of the year — Cal Performances is...Read more about The Nordic folklore behind the Joffrey Ballet’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Technological advancements and ethical debates dominate the media’s coverage of artificial intelligence. AI pioneer and 1966 Cal alum Sarah Douglas asks the sort of big questions — on knowledge, meaning, and consciousness — that are often overlooked by companies and can only be answered...Read more about Philosophy alum Sarah Douglas on her lifelong effort to program computers to understand meaning

UC Berkeley’s music program is booming, with the fastest-growing major on campus. Thanks to a newly retooled curriculum...Read more about Music department seeks to expand private lessons to keep up with student demand

Ask people what...Read more about What makes HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ feel so real? Two UC Berkeley alums who bring the show to life explain

On the back, pressed into the clay more than 2,000 years ago, was a fingerprint — a trace of the maker’s hand...Read more about When the past leaves fingerprints: Students unearth ancient Italian artifacts in a new Etruscan exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library

In order to truly experience the poetry of Emily Dickinson, it must...Read more about How Emily Dickinson’s musical poetry pushes us to live more expansively

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, a little-known era of global art history was born, sparked by the arrival of...Read more about In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging.

Osargue Otebele is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media. Her research mainly focuses on Nigerian art and film from 1960 to 2000. She is the Professor Norman Jacobson Memorial Fellow through the Townsend Center for Humanities dissertation fellowship. She is also a...Read more about Learning to Read What We Watch: Film, Media, and Academic Life with Osarugue Otebele

It’s easy to forget that the cloud isn’t an amorphous ball of fluff, says UC Berkeley Professor...Read more about This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world

When Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece opened at the Getty Villa Museum last summer, visitors encountered one of the most extraordinary archaeological stories of the last half century: the discovery of the Griffin Warrior grave and the renewed...Read more about Unearthing Pylos: Berkeley Students Engage a Monumental Bronze Age Discovery, Now on View at the Getty Villa