Celebrating Graduate And Undergraduate Students 2018-2019

May 9, 2019

Undergraduate Achievements

Nada Hosking (BA 2014)
Executive Director of Global Heritage Fund

Gabriella 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 Bern

Ramón 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 Virginia

Karine 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 Fellowship

E. 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 Fellowship

Stephanie Hohlios
Dissertation research fellowship for 2019–20 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Claire Ittner
UC Cuba Academic Initiative Grant

Riad 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 Studies

Rebecca 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 Grant

Verónica 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, Austin

Yessica Porras
SSRC (Social Science Research Council) Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) 2019–2020 (Andrew Mellon Foundation)

Lesdi Goussen Robleto
Mentored Research Award

Sasha Rossman
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter at the University of Bern, Switzerland, starting fall 2019
Berkeley–Erlangen/Nuremberg Research Fellowship
 

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, 2019–2021

Ollie 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 Debates

Jessica 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 University

Kristopher Kersey
Assistant Professor at UCLA

Rebecca Martin
Associate Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at BU

Kappy Mintie
The John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Research Fellow in Photography, Harvard University Museums

Jessica Stevenson Stewart
Associate Director at the Social Science Matrix at UC Berkeley

Justin Underhill
Academic Coordinator of the Visual Resources Center/V-Lab at UC Berkeley, starting spring 2019