Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2023-2024

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July 17, 2024

We are proud to celebrate recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our spectacular graduate students. Congratulations, all!!!

Fellowships and Grants

Michele D'Aurizio

- Townsend Dissertation Fellowship

Ramon de Santiago

- Mentored Research Award

Elizabeth Fair 

- Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art

Emily Kang

- Outstanding GSI award

Andrea Jung-An Liu 

- Center of Japanese Studies Grad Student Fellowship

Kevin Morales-Bernabe

- FLAS Fellowship, Sanskrit 

Tausif Noor

- Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship at the Library of Congress

Angela Pastorelli-Sosa

- Crystal Bridges as a Tyson Scholar of American Art

- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows (MMUF) Dissertation Grants Program (declined)

Ariana Pemberton

- Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship 

- American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship (declined)

Krishna Shekhawat

- DARTS Research Grant, Decorative Arts Trust 

- Maharaj Kaul Memorial Grant, Institute for South Asia Studies 

Kimberly Yu

- Korea Foundation Scholarship for Graduate Studies

Recent Job Placements

Jess Bailey (PhD 2022)

Lecturer for Premodern Art, University of Edinburgh

Delphine Sims (PhD 2024)

Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA

Claire Ittner (PhD 2024)

Assistant Professor of Art History, UNC Greensboro

Riad Kherdeen (PhD 2024)

Bridge-to-Faculty Postdoctoral Scholar, Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago

Joseph Albanese (PhD 2024)

Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, DePauw University

Lesdi Goussen Robleto (PhD expected 2024)

Postdoctoral Curatorial Research Fellow, Latinx Art, MFA Houston, 2024-2025

Assistant Professor, Art History, San Francisco State University, starting 2025

Susan Eberhard (PhD 2023) 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College 2024-2026

Andrew Sears (PhD 2022) 

Assistant Curator, Medieval Art, National Gallery of Art