IfeOluwa Nihinlola was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Graduate Student Fellowship at the National Museum of African Art for the fall 2025. The fellowship will allow Ife to conduct research on his dissertation titled “Masquerade Study as Oriki.”
Brooke Luokkala awarded Fox Center Humanities Pathways Fellowship
Brooke Luokkala was awarded the Fox Center Humanities Pathways Fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year. This fellowship will allow Brooke the opportunity to explore alternative careers in the Humanities while completing her dissertation on bone objects from the Peruvian Formative Period (1800-200 BCE).
Christina Crawford awarded Society of Architectural Historians’ Spiro Kostof Book Award
Christina Crawford’s book, Spatial Revolution: Architectural Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Cornell University Press, 2022), won the Society of Architectural Historians’ Spiro Kostof Book Award, which is “given to interdisciplinary studies of urban history that make the greatest contribution to our understanding of the growth and development of cities.”
Miltiadis Kylindreas awarded Samuel H. Kress Advanced Fellowship
Miltiadis Kylindreas was awarded the Samuel H. Kress Advanced Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in support of his dissertation project, “Building up the Classical Past: The Politics of Architectural Reconstruction in Modern Greece.”
Chelsy Monie awarded the Crossroads Cohort Advanced Graduate/Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tulane University
Chelsy will primarily support the inaugural class of the Crossroads Cohort at Tulane University, a unique and innovative interdisciplinary graduate program offering MA and MFA pathways for artists and art historians whose work engages the intersections of Africana studies, art history, and studio art.
Christina Crawford receives National Endowment for Humanities fellowship
Christina Crawford has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship to support a book on America’s first two public housing projects that were fully funded by the federal government and racially segregated. For more on Christina’s fellowship and her project, click here.
Margaret Nagawa to present at 2024 African Studies Annual Conference
Margaret Nagawa will present “Reconstructing the Forbidden Body in Leilah Babirye’s Sculptures” at the 2024 African Studies Annual Conference, December 12-14, 2024 in Chicago.
Haley Pierce appointed Assistant Curator of European Art at Eskenazi Museum of Art to curate upcoming exhibition
Haley Pierce is organizing the upcoming exhibition Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light as Assistant Curator of European Art at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, scheduled for February 14-June 15, 2025. Including over forty paintings from public and private collections, this will be the first monographic exhibition of Hoschedé-Monet’s work in the United States, and its accompanying catalogue is the first English publication dedicated to her life and art.
Chika Okeke-Agulu (04PhD) receives ACASA book prize
Chika Okeke-Agulu (04PhD), Robert Schirmer Professor of Archaeology and African American Art and Director of the Program in African Studies at Princeton University, received the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award for a multiple-author publication for his book with Okwui Enwezor, El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture (Damiani, 2022). This award was presented by the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) at their 19th Triennial Symposium in August 2024.
Delinda Collier (10PhD) receives single author publication prize from ACASA
Delinda Collier (10PhD), Interim Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, received the Arnold Robin Outstanding Publication Award for a single author publication for her book Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Duke, 2020) from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA). This award was presented during ACASA’s 19th Triennial Symposium in August 2024.