Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2021-2022

November 2, 2022

We are very proud to celebrate (a bit belatedly) some of the recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our graduate students over the course of last academic year–now supporting advanced training and innovative scholarship! 

Graduate Predoctoral Fellowships/Awards

Joseph Albanese

-Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Spain

Elizabeth Fair

-Outstanding GSI Award

Ellen Feiss

-2022 Erasmus+ Global Engagement Fund, Freie Universität Berlin

Lesdi Goussen Robleto

-AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship

Claire Ittner

-Smithsonian Institute Predoctoral Fellowship (Will Barnet Fellowship)

Vanessa Jackson 

-Mentored Research Award, Graduate Division

-Outstanding GSI Award

Andrea Jung-An Liu 

-Taiwan Governmental fellowship, Fall 2022-Spring 2023

Riad Kherdeen

-Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Grace Kuipers

-Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum

-Tyson Scholar of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Rebecca Levitan

-Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship

-IES fellowship (Berkeley-Upsala)

-Research grant from the Cycladic Museum in Athens

-Spring: Simon Keay Fellow, British School in Rome

Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque

-Thoma Art of the Spanish Americas Curatorial Fellowship

Tausif Noor

-Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, US Department of Education (for Bengali)

-Critical Language Scholarship, US Department of Education (for Bengali)

Angela Pastorelli Sosa

-Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, Ellen Holtzman Fellow

Ty Vanover

-Mabelle McLeod Lewis Fellowship

Continuing

Yessica Porras 

–Thoma Foundation Research Travel Award for Art of the Spanish Americas

Delphine Sims

-Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Wyeth Fellowship

Joel Thielen

-Japan Foundation 2021-22 Japanese Studies Doctoral Fellowship