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Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

Supporting graduate students pursuing research on the history of art and visual culture of the U.S.
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Claire Ittner F’21 conducting research on artist Eldzier Cortor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Study Room in 2022.

Since 1992, Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art have supported more than 300 historians of American art, including some of the nation’s most distinguished college and university faculty, museum curators, and leaders in the cultural sector. Awards support graduate students in any stage of PhD dissertation research or writing for scholarship on a topic in the history of the visual arts of the United States, including all facets of Native American art. 

This program is made possible by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. 

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Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art Fellowship

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Meet the Latest Awardees
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2024

Kéla Jackson

2024

Li A Machado

2025

Jeannette E. Martinez

2025

Taylor Rose Payer

Re-reading Chaz’s art from 1969 to the present can provide the field of American art history with a new perspective on ruptures and continuities in Chicano art, as well as new methodologies to engage with in the discipline of art history.

Read more about her work

Philomena Lopez F’21
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