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Humanities
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![Robert Middlekauff](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Robert-Middlekauff-750.jpg)
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![Archived illustration of a riot against Chinese people in San Francisco](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Lok_SFRiot_FINAL-1.jpg)
![Three men speaking on a neighborhood street.](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP_RichmondField_FINAL.jpg)
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How we create ‘imagined communities’ with celebrity gossip
March 16, 2021
![three people in a colorful graphic of a garden](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Alice-Walker-graphic_by-Jacquelyn-Serrano-750.jpg)
![Jessica Johnson, a doctoral student in Egyptology, uses a Vive Cosmos VR headset to explore a recreation of the 2,500-year-old tomb of Psamtik.](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JessicaTomb750.jpg)
![mummified crocodile in a display case](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/crocodile-mummy-750.jpg)
![three photos: a woman with sunglasses looking into the distance; two parents and two small kids sitting on a porch; a photo taken in the 1900s of a woman wearing a hat](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Natalyn-Daniels-01-750-1.jpg)
Language is more than how we speak — it’s home
February 16, 2021
![Ph.D. student Alberto Sanchez-Sanchez stands on a balcony on the historical landmark house from the 17th century that he bought in his hometown of Used, Spain.](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AlbertoSanchezonbalcony750.jpg)
COVID Stories: Restoring a 17th century manor in Spain
February 8, 2021
![Morino Baca, a Native American graduate student in public health, works on an archaeology project in Pueblo de Abiquiú, 20 miles from Española in New Mexico where he grew up. At left, UC Berkeley student Jasper Sundeen. (Photo by Danny Sosa Aguilar)](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MoriniBacaBearBones750.jpg)
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‘Discredit, disrupt, and destroy’
February 1, 2021
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Berkeley scholars: Here’s what Biden should accomplish right away
January 22, 2021
![Sanjay Kumar(top left), Spencer Klein, Margaret Conkey, Robert Ritchie (bottom left) and Peidong Yang are the five new Berkeley scholars elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AAAS-2020borders750.jpg)
Five Berkeley top scholars named AAAS fellows
November 24, 2020