Ashley Cope Receives Prestigious SAAM Predoctoral Fellowship in American Art

Ashley adds another fellowship to support her work completing her dissertation project

Ashley Cope has been awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to support her dissertation research and writing. Ashley will serve as a Big Ten Academic Alliance/Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow in the academic year 2027-2028 after concluding her Luce/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Fellowship in 2026-2027.

For over fifty years the Smithsonian American Art Museum has fostered new scholarship through its preeminent fellowship program, which is the oldest and largest in the world for the study of American art. SAAM has hosted fellows and visiting scholars from more than 260 institutions in 44 states and 23 foreign countries.

Ashley joins this august corps of fellows with a dissertation project entitled Beyond Binaries: Experiments in Gender and Form in Interwar US Art.

Congratulations Ashley!