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).
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.
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.
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.”