Yonatan Binyam is a new faculty member in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. He is at work on a book exploring the use of race and racism as analytic concepts in the study of ancient texts. Before coming to Berkeley, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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
In a recent interview, Arts & Humanities dean Sara Guyer contradicts the myth that the arts and humanities’ relevance is in decline: “The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring like crazy.”