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 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 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 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 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 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.”
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 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 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.”
Margaret Nagawa was the guest curator for Insistent Presence: Contemporary Art from the Chazen Collection, an exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The show displays forty-five works of art by twenty-four contemporary artists from the African continent and diaspora. It is open from September 5-December 23, 2023.
