Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

Elise Armani

Year:
  • 2024
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Making Rhythms Out of Barriers: Infrastructural Interventions by Migrant Artists on the Lower East Side (1975-1989)

Max Bowens

Year:
  • 2025
Harvard University
Storing the Self: Art, Data, and Repatriation

Dusti Cheyenne Bridges

Year:
  • 2023
Cornell University
(Re)lating Archaeological Collections: Hodinöhsö:ni' Art, Colonialist Histories, and Indigenous Futurities in Archaeological Research

Olivia Comstock

Year:
  • 2025
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Allen Fannin: Hand Spinning and Weaving, Nitty-Gritty Needs, and "The Black Craftsman Situation"

Ashley E. Kim Duffey

Year:
  • 2023
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
(Re)visioning Kinship: Photographies of U.S.-Korean Adoption since 1953

Isabel Elson-Enriquez

Year:
  • 2025
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Becoming Plastic: Synthetic Materiality in US Art 1965-1975
Ellen Holtzman Fellow

Elizabeth Fair

Year:
  • 2024
University of California, Berkeley
The Walls Speak: Migration and Memory in Chinese American Architecture and Ornament

Alex Fialho

Year:
  • 2024
Yale University
Apertures onto AIDS: African American Photography and the Art History of the Storage Unit
Ellen Holtzman Fellow

Sonja Elena Gandert

Year:
  • 2023
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985

Kéla Jackson

Year:
  • 2024
Harvard University
UnBecoming: The Poetics of Rupture in Visions of Black Girlhood

Emma McMath Kennedy

Year:
  • 2023
Northwestern University
Entangled Lives: The Representation of Blackness and Indigeneity in Contemporary Art

Li A. Machado

Year:
  • 2024
Temple University
Intricately Woven: Networks of Desire in Queer Chicanx L.A., 1985-2020

Jeannette E. Martinez

Year:
  • 2025
University of New Mexico
Visualities of Belonging: Creating Terruño in Contemporary US Central American Art (1990s – Now)

Taylor Rose Payer

Year:
  • 2025
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Crafting Kinship: Abstraction and Native American Women Artists in the Twentieth Century

Phillippa Pitts

Year:
  • 2023
Boston University
Pharmacoepic Dreams: Art and America’s Medical Democracy, 1800-1860

Elizabeth Driscoll Smith

Year:
  • 2023
University of California, Santa Barbara
Build/Live/Work: Artist-Built Environments and the Expanded Vernacular in the Twentieth Century
Ellen Holtzman Fellow

Hampton Smith

Year:
  • 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Making against Slavery: Artisanry, Capitalism, and the Material History of Abolition in the United States, 1791-1902

Meshell Lea Sturgis

Year:
  • 2023
University of Washington
The Political Aesthetics of Black Girl Magic: Self-Representation in Alternative Media

Ashley Elizabeth Williams

Year:
  • 2024
Columbia University
Unfree Artists on the Borders of US Empire, 1850-1930

Natalie Wright

Year:
  • 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Functional Fashions: Dress and Disability in the United States, 1950-1975

Joseph Zordan

Year:
  • 2024
Harvard University
Tangible Sorrows: The Materiality and Heritage of Grief in Colonial New York, 1688-1764