Christine Quach awarded Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellowship

The Department's third(!) awardee in two years will study in Leiden

The Kress Foundation awards six History of Art Institutional Fellowships annually. These two-year, $30,000 a year stipend fellowships attached to six centers in the UK and Europe for the advanced study of European art history are highly prized and quite competitive. Now, for the third time in two years, a member of the Graduate Student cohort of the Department has received this prestigious award. 

Christine Quach's research focuses on domestic boxes owned and used by women in the 17th century Netherlands. Her dissertation, "The Life and Times of Women and their Boxes in the Early Modern Dutch Home," examines the boxes’ physical and material properties as mediators of women’s temporal experiences within the household from a micro/daily and macro/lifetime level. By investigating a variety of female-coded boxes such as toilet boxes, sewing boxes, and blanket chests/cabinets, her work charts the ways daily use of boxes parallels key milestones in women’s lives. With the two-year Kress in residence at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) beginning this September, Christine will embark on a quest to see boxes in collections throughout the Netherlands.

We could not be more proud of this signal achievement Christine. Congratulations!