Arts & Humanities

Fiat Vox: First Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Art Practice, Fred DeWitt

April 22, 2021
Anne Brice

In a recent Fiat Vox podcast, Anne Brice interviewed Berkeley MFA student Fred DeWitt. DeWitt, 61, shares in his own words what the Black Panthers meant to him as a young boy growing up in the Bay Area, how Barack Obama’s election as president inspired him to go back to school to study art, and the complicated nature of honoring the lives of people who never wanted to be remembered for their deaths. His MFA show will be at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) in June.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/04/20/podcast-artist-fred-dewitt/

Race and responsibility: A conversation on Black-Jewish relations and the fight for equal justice

April 6, 2021
Michelle Phillips

On April 12, UC Berkeley will host: Race and Responsibility: A Conversation on Black-Jewish Relations and the Fight for Equal Justice

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/04/06/race-and-responsibility-a-conversation-on-b…

Top rankings for L&S graduate programs in U.S. News & World Report

April 7, 2021
Michelle Phillips

UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science received national recognition in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate programs. English, History, and Sociology all received #1 rankings, underlining the exceptional quality and depth of graduate education at L&S, and over thirty L&S programs and specialties earned top ten rankings this year.

“The disciplines of the Humanities have been a pillar of Berkeley's strength from the moment of its founding,” said Anthony Cascardi, dean of the...

Next Dean of Arts and Humanities in the College of Letters & Science

April 15, 2021

Headshot of Sara Guyer, New Dean of UC Berkeley's Division of Arts and HumanitiesSara Guyer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been appointed the next dean of Arts and Humanities in the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science. Having earned a master’s and a doctoral degree in rhetoric from UC Berkeley, Guyer is...