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Celebrating Graduate And Undergraduate Students 2018-2019
Undergraduate Achievements
Nada Hosking (BA 2014)
Executive Director of Global Heritage FundGabriella Wellons (BA 2018)
A paid summer internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards
J.G. Bailey
European Research Council Consolidator Grant: Global Horizonte in der Kunst des Mittelaters, Universität BernRamón de Santiago
Tinker Foundation grant
Center for Latin American Studies Summer Field Research Grant
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Nahuatl Language Study
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Scholarship, Rare Book School, "The Art & Science of Cartography, 200–1550 CE," University of VirginiaKarine Douplitzky
France–Berkeley Fund Fellowship with Professor Todd Olson to collaborate with Ann Lafont (Director of Studies EHESS, France) (2018–19)Susan Eberhard
CASVA Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral FellowshipE. C. Feiss
Ellen Holzman Fellow, Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum [Declined]
Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation FellowshipStephanie Hohlios
Dissertation research fellowship for 2019–20 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceClaire Ittner
UC Cuba Academic Initiative GrantRiad Kherdeen
Long-Term Research Grant from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
Andrew Mellon Foundation Research Grant from Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern StudiesRebecca Levitan
Edward Capps Advanced (predoctoral) Fellowship for 2019/20 at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) Travel GrantVerónica Muñoz-Nájar
Marilynn Thoma Pre-doctoral Fellow in Spanish Colonial Art, Carl & Marilynn Thoma Collection
Fellow of Cátedra del Prado: “De la pintura a la era de la imagen,” Museo del Prado, Madrid
Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge
Thoma Visiting Scholar in Spanish Colonial Art, Blanton Museum of Art, AustinYessica Porras
SSRC (Social Science Research Council) Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) 2019–2020 (Andrew Mellon Foundation)Lesdi Goussen Robleto
Mentored Research Award
Graduate Postdoctoral Fellowships/Awards
Andrew Griebeler
Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities, at the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, 2019–2021Ollie O'Donnell
A five-year research postdoctoral fellowship in the Bilderfahrzeuge project of the Warburg Institute, University of London, beginning in fall 2018
2018 Willibald Sauerländer Prize of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich for his book Meyer Schapiro: Critical DebatesJessica Stair
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in History of Art and Architecture at Brown University
Job Placements
William Coleman
Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Olana [New York] State Historic Site [home, studio, and landscape designed by Frederic Edwin Church]Sarah Louise Cowan
Assistant Professor of American Art at DePauw UniversityKristopher Kersey
Assistant Professor at UCLARebecca Martin
Associate Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at BUKappy Mintie
The John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Research Fellow in Photography, Harvard University MuseumsSasha Rossman
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter at the University of Bern, Switzerland, starting fall 2019
Berkeley–Erlangen/Nuremberg Research Fellowship
Jessica Stevenson Stewart
Associate Director at the Social Science Matrix at UC BerkeleyJustin Underhill
Academic Coordinator of the Visual Resources Center/V-Lab at UC Berkeley, starting spring 2019 -
Celebrating Graduate And Undergraduate Students 2017-2018
Undergraduate Awards
Tobias Rosen
Honorable Mention from the Undergraduate Library Research Prize for his essay “Decapitating the Academie”Gabriella Wellons
A paid summer internship in the Museum Voices program at the Princeton University Art GalleryGraduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards
Sarah Louise Cowan
Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation FellowshipRamón de Santiago
Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for intensive study of Nahuatl at the University of UtahThadeus Dowad
CASVA’s three-year Paul Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to complete an intensive Ottoman language program in TurkeySusan Eberhard
CLIR Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
Terra Foundation International Research travel grant
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) grantEllen Feiss
Chester Dale fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum (declined)
Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency, Giverny, France
Outstanding GSI AwardJessica (Jez) Flores García
University of California Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2018–19Lesdi Goussen Robleto
Tinker Foundation Field Research GrantRebecca Levitan
CAORC Traveling fellowship, 2018–2019, to research her dissertation on the "Pasquino" group
Outstanding GSI AwardYessica Porras
Mentored Research Award – a prize for students whose backgrounds, life experiences, and/or work contribute to diversity – for 2018–19Miriam Said
CASVA’s Ittleson Fellowship to research her dissertation on Lamaštu and Pazuzu apotropaia in ancient AssyriaAndrew Sears
CASVA’s David E. Finley FellowshipDelphine Sims
SFMOMA Curatorial Photography Internship, Summer 2018Shivani Sud
Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellowship
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship
Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Award
Social Science and Research Council International Dissertation Research FellowshipGraduate Postdoctoral Fellowships/Awards
Grace Harpster
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, Department of Art History & ArchaeologyElaine Yau
NEH Summer Research GrantJob Placements
Grace Harpster
Tenure Track Position, Georgia State UniversityRosaline Kyo
Assistant Professor of Asian Art and Chinese Studies at Davidson College in North CarolinaLaure Marest-Caffey
Cornelius and Emily Vermeule Assistant Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Museum of Fine Arts, BostonKappy Mintie
2-year Visiting Assistant Professor of American Art at DePauw UniversityEmma Silverman
2-Year Visiting Assistant Professor of American Art and Architecture at Smith CollegeJennifer Stager
Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Art at Johns Hopkins University -
Celebrating Graduate And Undergraduate Students 2015-2016
Undergraduate Awards
Verenice Ramirez
Getty Undergraduate Multicultural InternshipRamon de Santiago
Haas Scholar - twenty highly qualified, academically talented undergraduates come together to build a supportive intellectual community during their final year at UC-Berkeley
McNair Scholar - prepares selected UC Berkeley undergraduates for graduate studyRyan Serpa
Summer Undergraduate Research Award - to conduct research in the eastern United States for an honors thesis on Bay Area Figurative Painting, advised by Darcy Grimaldo GrigsbyGabriella (Nunez) Wellons
George A. Miller Scholar - provides outstanding community college transfer students with a research and community service stipendJessy Bell
Mathilde Andrews
Berkeley's Institute of International Studies (IIS) Undergraduate Merit Scholarship supports undergraduate research in any area of international studies.Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards
Sarah Cowan
Fellowship for Research at Emory College; Mellon Curatorial Internship AwardJessica (Jez) Flores
CASVA Summer Travel Award for American Art HistoriansAndrew Griebeler
Dumbarton Oaks Dissertation Fellowship
Townsend Fellowship
CASVA Finley AwardElizabeth McFadden
Kress Institutional Fellowship: will be in residence for two years at the Courtauld Institute, LondonKatherine (Kappy) Mintie
Peter Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research
Junior Fellow Program at the Library of CongressAleksandr (Sasha) Rossman
Konstanz Three Year Dissertation FellowshipAndrew Sears
John Boswell Dissertation Grant from the Medieval Academy of America
Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut in the "Ethics and Architecture Research Group"Miriam Said
Frances Markoe Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hosted in the Department of Near Eastern ArtEmma Silverman
Henry Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship in American ArtGrace Harpster
Getty Predoctoral Fellowship
RSA Rensselaer W. Lee Research GrantGraduate Postdoctoral Fellowships/Awards
Charles (Ollie) O'Donnell
Kunsthistorisches Institut Postdoctoral AwardStephanie Pearson
Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)Justin Underhill
U.C. Berkeley, Digital Humanities Postdoctoral AwardElaine Yau
Connecticut College, C3 Postdoctoral AwardJob Placements
William Ma
Lewis and Clark College, One year appointment as Visiting Assistant ProfessorStephanie Pearson
Curatorial Assistant, Institut fur Klassische Archaologie der Freien Universitat BerlinKailani Polzak
Williams College, Tenure Track Position, initially a two-year C3 Postdoctoral FellowshipJordan Rose
UC San Diego, Tenure Track Position
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Department Faculty and Students to Speak at CAA
Five members of the Department will present papers at the College Art Association's annual meetings in New York, February 11-14, 2015. Please see the list of titles and abstracts here.
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Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards 2013
Congratulations to three History of Art graduate students, Kappy Mintie, Stephanie Pearson, and Elaine Yau who won Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards for teaching in 2012.