Art History Students & Faculty Receive Fellowships and Grants

The Art History Department is pleased to announce that the following grants and fellowships were awarded to students and faculty this spring!

Jasmine Cloud, who was awarded a four year University Fellowship by Temple when she entered the doctoral program, has now won the Kress two-year fellowship to the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome, one of only four Institutional Fellowships that the Kress Foundation awards, for her doctoral research in Italy.  She has also been awarded a Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Italy.

Laura Turner Igoe, a student in the Ph.D. program, has been awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) to support her trip this summer to northern Europe, where she will visit museums of art and science as well as Kunstkammern.

Tamara Smithers, a student in the Ph.D. program, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowship by the American Academy in Rome, 2011.

Agnes Szymanska, a student in the Ph.D. program, was awarded a Fellowship to the Byzantine Greek Summer School at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Cheryl Harper, a student in the M.A. program, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Workshop at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, 2011.

Dr. Elizabeth Bolman, Associate Professor, Late Antique and Byzantine Art, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 2011-12.

Photo Credit: Dr. Elizabeth Bolman studies a Red Monastery painting.  Photo by Gustavo Camps