The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced the 2019 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art. Eleven scholars have been selected to receive support during the 2019-2020 academic year as they research and write their dissertations, which explore a wide range of topics in object- and image-based US art history.
“Since the early 1990s, this program has supported 300 exceptional emerging scholars of US art history,” said Matthew Goldfeder, director of fellowship programs at ACLS. “Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows have helped to shape the field of American art. Many former fellows give back to the program as senior scholars by participating in the program’s peer-review process and helping to select the promising new scholars who will continue to build the field in the coming generation.”
Doctoral Candidate, Visual and Environmental Studies
Harvard University
Fluid Materialisms in Contemporary Art, 1960s-Present
Doctoral Candidate, Art and Art History
University of Texas at Austin
After the Punchline: American Visual Parody since the 1970s as Generative Form
Doctoral Candidate, Art History
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Traces: A Transhistorical Study of Fiber Ecologies in Contemporary Art
Doctoral Candidate, History of Art
University of California, Berkeley
Maximum Feasible Participation: Art in the War on Poverty, 1959-1973
Doctoral Candidate, Art History, Theory, and Criticism
University of California, San Diego
Vanguardias Transnacionales: Reconciling the Local and the Global in Chicano Art
Doctoral Candidate, Art History
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s
Doctoral Candidate, Visual Studies
University of California, Irvine
Alternative Abstractions: Art and Science in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Doctoral Candidate, Art History
Northwestern University
For Immediate Release: Public Relations and Contemporary Art in the United States, 1967–1990
Doctoral Candidate, Art History
Stanford University
Deep Cuts: Art and Transgender History in the United States
Doctoral Candidate, Art History
Northwestern University
Machine-Eyed Modern: Art, Science, and Visual Experience in Early Cold War America
Doctoral Candidate, History of Art
University of Pennsylvania
Facing Freedom: Tracing African American Emancipation in Antebellum Portraiture
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