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.”
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.
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.
While a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Assistant Professor Megan O’Neil curated an exhibition called Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which then toured to three museums in China. It is now on display at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin–the university where O’Neil received her M.A. in art history–until January 7, 2024. See here for more information about the exhibition.
The Getty Research Institute has named Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi a Getty Scholar for the 2023-2024 academic year. She will be working on her collaborative, in-progress, born-digital multimodal publication project, Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected Walter S. Melion into the class of 2023. AAAS is one of the oldest and most distinguished learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and others, and Benjamin Franklin was one of the first fellows.
Sarah McPhee has received a University Research Committee (URC) award for 2023-24 in support of her book The Eye of the Etcher and her digital humanities project Envisioning Baroque Rome.
Walter Melion has been named Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, DC for the academic year 2023-2024. He will spend the year finishing his book Praying through Prints: Technologies of Affective Piety and Image-Based Devotion in Dutch and Flemish Prayerbooks, 1480-1680.
Christina E. Crawford worked with her students, university colleagues and community partners to establish two Georgia Historical Society markers for the first federally funded public housing projects in the US: Techwood Homes and University Homes. Click here to read an article about this work in the Emory News Center.
Megan O’Neil has been named a Getty Residential Scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year. She will be working on the project, Migrating Things: Shifts of Place and Perception in the 20th-Century Pre-Hispanic Art Market.
