Supporting the Humanities at UC Berkeley

Juliana Ramírez Herrera

Juliana Ramírez Herrera, a new faculty member in History of Art, specializes in the arts and archaeology of the Indigenous Americas. She addresses the relationship between Indigenous material culture and Western art history, with a special interest in the ethical challenges of researching material that is primarily looted.
 

Muse of History, Painting (detail) by Charles Meynier, 1800, Cleveland Museum of Art

The Townsend Center is pleased to support Clio’s Scroll, the Berkeley undergraduate history journal, which celebrates its 45th anniversary. Produced twice yearly by students in the Department of History, the journal provides undergraduates with the opportunity to publish outstanding historical scholarship.
 

Faculty Books

Tom McEnaney Photo outside Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley

To understand how storytelling in music has changed over time, A&H faculty member and Berkeley Center for New Media director Tom McEnaney and his colleagues used machine learning to analyze more than 5000 pop songs that made the Billboard Hot 100 list between 1960 and 2024.