Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

Supporting graduate students pursuing research on the history of art and visual culture of the US
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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)

Kiki M. Barnes

Year:
  • 2026
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
The Hiawatha Effect: The Cultural Imagination of the Great Lakes, 1855–1955

Emily Rose Beeber

Year:
  • 2026
University of Delaware
Visualizing Jewishness in the Atlantic World, 1715-1830

Max Bowens

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

Morgan J. Brittain

Year:
  • 2026
William & Mary
Pipelines: American Landscape Art and Petro-colonial Rupture (ca. 1859, 1943, 2016)

O.M. Comstock

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

Ashley Cope

Year:
  • 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
Beyond Binaries: Experiments in Gender and Form in Interwar U.S. Art

Kale Serrato Doyen

Year:
  • 2024
  • 2026
University of Pittsburgh
Mapping the Teenie Harris Archive: Photography, Community, and Pittsburgh's Black Geography
Ellen Holtzman Fellow

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

Delaney Chieyen Holton

Year:
  • 2026
Stanford University
The Optics of Empire: Lens-Based Media and the US South’s Transpacific Entanglements

Kéla Jackson

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

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

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

Gabrielle Tillenburg

Year:
  • 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
Island Bodies Under and Against US Occupation (1985-2025)

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