Celebrating Graduate Students 2020-2021
We are proud to celebrate some of the recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our graduate students.
Graduate Predoctoral Fellowships/Awards
Lesdi Goussen Robleto
-Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
-Center for Race and Gender Grant
Claire Ittner
-Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art (Ellen Holtzman Fellowship)
-Smithsonian Institute Predoctoral Fellowship (Will Barnet Fellowship)
Andrea Jung-An Liu
-Dr. and Mrs. James C.Y. Soong Fellowship
-Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship
-Toshio Watanabe Study Abroad Scholarship
-Interuniversity Center for Japanese Language Studies
Riad Kherdeen
-Center for Middle East Studies Sultan Program Graduate Fellowship Grant
-Center for Middle Eastern Studies Stevens Scholar
Rebecca Levitan
-Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Emeline Hill Richardson Rome Prize
Mary Lewine
-Kajima Foundation for the Arts Grant
Tausif Noor
-Malini Chowdhury Fellowship for Bangladesh Studie
Angela Pastorelli Sosa
-Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Ariana Pemberton
-Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
-British Studies Travel Fellowship
-Malini Chowdhury Fellowship for Bangladesh Studies
Yessica Porras
–Thoma Foundation Research Travel Award for Art of the Spanish Americas
-Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Dissertation Grant
-Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellows Program
-University of California Dissertation Year Fellowship
Delphine Sims
-The Metropolitan Museum of Art History of Art and Visual Culture Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
-Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Wyeth Fellowship
Christine Theunissen
-John L. Simpson Pre-dissertation Fellowship
Joel Thielen
-Japan Foundation 2021-22 Japanese Studies Doctoral Fellowship
Kimberly Yu
-Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Japanese Language Study
Job Placements
Thadeus Dowad
Assistant Professor of global 18th and 19th-century art, Northwestern University
Andrew Griebeler
Getty Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies 2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art History
Miriam Said
Assistant Professor in the History of Art, Tufts University
Patricia Yu
Assistant Professor of Asian art history, Kenyon College
This list is likely incomplete and we would love to feature others. We welcome submissions of news updates for our website at any time.