Graduate Students in Art History & Archaeology Land Eight Fellowships for Coming Academic Year

Six Graduate Students, Eight Fellowships, Huge Pride

The Department of Art History and Archaeology is deeply proud to announce that six of our PhD candidates, between them, secured eight predoctoral fellowships this spring for the coming academic year(s), support that will allow each of these distinguished emerging scholars to research, write, and in many cases, complete their dissertation projects. Four students secured prestigious Smithsonian American Art Museum fellowships, two students in addition were awarded LUCE/ALCS Fellowships, and one student each will be a Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.

Maura Callahan will be a Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at SAAM for the coming academic year.

Ashley Cope will be a LUCE/ALCS Predoctoral Fellow for academic year 2026-2027 and for the 2027-2028 academic year will be a Big Ten Academic Alliance/Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow at SAAM.

Tony Cui has been awarded a twelve-month Chester Dale pre-doctoral fellowship by The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to complete his dissertation.

Juliet Huang will be a History of Art and Visual Culture Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this academic year after completing her two-year Kress Fellowship. 

Cléa Massiani has been awarded a Big Ten Academic Alliance/Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship at SAAM for the coming academic year.

Gabrielle Tillenburg received a LUCE/ALCS Predoctoral Fellowship for academic year 2026-2027, which she will follow up with a Big Ten Academic Alliance/Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship at SAAM the following year.

Congratulations to our successful PhD candidates! We are so proud of you and wish you every success in your scholarly endeavors this coming year.