Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
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Elise Armani
Year:
- 2024
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Making Rhythms Out of Barriers: Infrastructural Interventions by Migrant Artists on the Lower East Side (1975-1989)
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Aleisha E. Barton
Year:
- 2021
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Vibrating Boundaries: Psychedelic Aesthetics in the Post-War Age, 1966-1970
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Dusti Cheyenne Bridges
Year:
- 2023
Cornell University
(Re)lating Archaeological Collections: Hodinöhsö:ni' Art, Colonialist Histories, and Indigenous Futurities in Archaeological Research
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Emily Cornish
Year:
- 2022
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Indigenous Women and Photography in the Kingdom of Hawaii: Tradition and Modernity through Self-representation and Patronage
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Jack Crawford
Year:
- 2021
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Flamboyant Abundance: Performing Queer Maximalism, 1960 – 1990
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Ashley E. Kim Duffey
Year:
- 2023
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
(Re)visioning Kinship: Photographies of U.S.-Korean Adoption since 1953
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Taryn M. Ely
Year:
- 2022
University of Rochester
A Medium of Madness: Neurodiversity in American Experimental Cinema
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Elizabeth Fair
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Berkeley
The Walls Speak: Migration and Memory in Chinese American Architecture and Ornament
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Alex Fialho
Year:
- 2024
Yale University
Apertures onto AIDS: African American Photography and the Art History of the Storage Unit
Ellen Holtzman Fellow
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Sonja Elena Gandert
Year:
- 2023
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985
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Katherine A. Gregory
Year:
- 2022
University of Texas at Austin
Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Mind: Robert S. Duncanson in Europe and America
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Connor Hamm
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Los Angeles
Coastal Modern: Art and the Lowcountry, 1900-1950s
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Claire Ittner
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Berkeley
Fellow Travelers: The Artist-Researchers of the Rosenwald Fellowship, 1940-1950
Ellen Holtzman Fellow
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Kéla Jackson
Year:
- 2024
Harvard University
UnBecoming: The Poetics of Rupture in Visions of Black Girlhood
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Emma McMath Kennedy
Year:
- 2023
Northwestern University
Entangled Lives: The Representation of Blackness and Indigeneity in Contemporary Art
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Jessica Larson
Year:
- 2021
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857-1914
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Philomena Jazmin Lopez
Year:
- 2021
University of California, San Diego
Breaking Boundaries: The Multilayered Value of Charles Bojorquez's Graffiti Art from 1969 to 2019
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Li A. Machado
Year:
- 2024
Temple University
Intricately Woven: Networks of Desire in Queer Chicanx L.A., 1985-2020
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Li A. Machado
Year:
- 2024
Temple University
Intricately Woven: Networks of Desire in Queer Chicanx L.A., 1985-2020
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Angela Pastorelli-Sosa
Year:
- 2022
University of California, Berkeley
X Marks the Spot: Latinx Artists Mapping Space (2022 Ellen Holtzman Fellow)
Ellen Holtzman Fellow
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Phillippa Pitts
Year:
- 2023
Boston University
Pharmacoepic Dreams: Art and America’s Medical Democracy, 1800-1860
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Alisa Victoria Prince
Year:
- 2021
University of Rochester
Exit Point: Tracing the Value of Black Vernacular Photographs From and Beyond the Domestic Archive
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Elizabeth Driscoll Smith
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Santa Barbara
Build/Live/Work: Artist-Built Environments and the Expanded Vernacular in the Twentieth Century
Ellen Holtzman Fellow
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Meshell Lea Sturgis
Year:
- 2023
University of Washington
The Political Aesthetics of Black Girl Magic: Self-Representation in Alternative Media
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Dylan D. Volk
Year:
- 2022
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Lips Touch: Lesbian Aesthetic Strategies and the Body Impolitic, 1990-1999
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Margaret Wander
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Santa Cruz
Artistic Responses to a Changing Planet: Creativity, Climate Change, and Colonial Cultures in Oceania
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Zoe Weldon-Yochim
Year:
- 2022
University of California, Santa Cruz
Atomic Afterlives: Visualizing Nuclear Toxicity in Art of the United States, 1979-2011
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Ashley Elizabeth Williams
Year:
- 2024
Columbia University
Unfree Artists on the Borders of US Empire, 1850-1930
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Serda Ariyel Yalkin
Year:
- 2022
Duke University
Diasporic Visions: Nuyorican Photography in the 1970s and 1980s
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Joseph Zordan
Year:
- 2024
Harvard University
Tangible Sorrows: The Materiality and Heritage of Grief in Colonial New York, 1688-1764