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.
Susan Gagliardi receives Distinguished Teaching Award from ACASA
Susan Gagliardi received the Distinguished Teaching Award at the 19th Triennial Symposium of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA). ACASA gives this award only every three years.
Emily Whitehead awarded CASVA fellowship
Emily Whitehead has received the David E. Finley Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to support work on her dissertation, “Variance and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Coffins at a Time of Standardization and Homogeneity.”
Alexandra Zigomalas awarded Emory Writing Center Fellowship
Alexandra Zigomalas has been awarded the Emory Writing Center Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year in support of her dissertation, “Bernini’s England: The Artistic Exchange between London and Rome, 1625-1700.”
Margaret Nagawa to present at the 2025 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium
Margarat Nagawa will present “Otobong Nkanga’s Sensuous Reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s Baggage” at the 2025 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium on February 28, 2024.
Elise Schlecht receives Armenian Communities Department grant
Elise Schlecht received a grant from the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to enable her to travel to visit Yerevan, Abovyan, and Armavir in Armenia this summer. She will conduct field work for her research topic, “Towards a Typology of Armenian Mass Housing.”
Emily Whitehead awarded Dean’s Teaching Fellowship
Emily Whitehead has been awarded a Laney Graduate School Dean’s Teaching Fellowship for the 2024-2025 in support of her dissertation project, “Variance and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Coffins at a Time of Standardization and Homogeneity.”