The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced the 2020 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art. Eight scholars have been selected to receive support for the research and writing of their dissertations, which explore a wide range of topics in object- and image-based US art history.
“As we continue to make our way through the difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is heartening to share the happy announcement of our 2020 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art,” said Joy Connolly, President of ACLS. “This diverse group of young scholars at work, investigating some of the most distinctive aspects of our cultural heritage, gives us hope for the future.”
Doctoral Candidate, Art History
University of Delaware
Features of Cruelty Which Could Not Well be Described by the Pen”: The Media of Atrocity in Harper's Weekly, 1862-1866
Doctoral Candidate, Art and Art History
Stanford University
The Memory of Copley: Afterlives of the American Portrait, 1765-1925
Doctoral Candidate, History of Art
Johns Hopkins University
Capital Art: Rethinking the Washington Color School
Doctoral Candidate, History of Art
Bryn Mawr College
(Un)Bound: Towards a Contemporary Migratory Aesthetics of Performance in the United States by Womxn-Identifying Practitioners, 1970-2016
Doctoral Candidate, Art History
University of Southern California
“A Sort of Picture Gallery”: The Visual Culture of Antebellum America
Ellen Holtzman Fellow, Doctoral Candidate, Art History
Florida State University
Framing Absence: Photographic Narratives of the Vietnam War
Doctoral Candidate, Art History & Archaeology
Columbia University
Radical Touch: Performative Sculpture and Assemblage in the 1970s
Doctoral Candidate, Art History
University of Southern California
Glossy Buildings, Planned Images: Architectural Photography across Contested Spaces in Los Angeles, 1940-1980
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