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... [show more]

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 Gallery

Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards

Sarah Louise Cowan
Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship

Ramón de Santiago
Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for intensive study of Nahuatl at the University of Utah

Thadeus 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 Turkey

Susan Eberhard
CLIR Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
Terra Foundation International Research travel grant
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) grant

Ellen 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 Award

Jessica ... [show more]

Undergraduate Awards Verenice Ramirez Getty Undergraduate Multicultural Internship Ramon 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 study Ryan 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 Grigsby Gabriella (Nunez) Wellons George A. Miller Scholar - provides outstanding community college transfer students with a research and community service stipend Jessy 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 Award Jessica (Jez) Flores CASVA Summer Travel Award for American Art Historians Andrew Griebeler Dumbarton Oaks Dissertation Fellowship Townsend Fellowship CASVA Finley ... [show more]

The department would like to recognize and congratulate four of our students -- Alexandra Courtois de Vicose, Aaron Hyman, Grace Harpster, Michelle "Micki" McCoy --  for winning competitive predoctoral fellowships. Micki and Aaron received fellowships from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts  (CASVA), Alexandra won an award from the George Lurcy Fellowship Program, and Grace received The Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Award. Please read more below about these fellowship winners and their research. Alexandra Courtois de Vicose, 2015-16 Georges Lurcy Fellow, works on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the perceived marginality of his art and persona, and the critical rhetoric assessing his oeuvre as stemming from a ‘deviant body.’ Rather than focus on a medical diagnosis as cause for his artistic choices, Alexandra turns to the society in which Lautrec lived and created. Using a Disability Studies framework to formulate a nuanced sociological and cultural construction of disability in late nineteenth-century Paris, Alexandra proposes to frame Lautrec’s oeuvre and life in a new light. Using a selection of photographs, drawings, paintings and prints, she investigates how his construction... [show more]