Grants Programs: Dissertation Fellowships
Dissertation fellowships | Senior fellowships | Master of fine arts fellowships
The Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship is awarded annually to a Ph.D. Candidate at an American university who is working on a dissertation related to modern art and modernism. Applications are solicited annually from doctoral art history programs throughout the country, with each program nominating one candidate. The fellowship award of $20,000 is made from among these nominees by a committee of distinguished scholars.
Please note: Applications must be made by university departments, so interested candidates for Ph.D. degrees at American universities should ask their department chairs for more information. (Department chairs seeking further information should contact: Grants Administrator, Dedalus Foundation, 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1222, New York, N.Y. 10019; or email .)
The past recipients of the Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowships are:
2008–2009
Maria Fabiola Lopez-Duran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Eugenics in the Garden: Architecture, Medicine, and Landscape from France to Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century
Annie Bourneuf, Princeton University: The Visible and the Legible: On Paul Klee’s Work and Reception, 1916-1922
2007–2008
Irene Small, Yale University: Hélio Oticica and the Morphology of Things
Joyce Tsai, Johns Hopkins University: Painting after Photography: László Moholy-Nagy, 1921–1936
2006–2007
Kaira Cabañas, Princeton University: Toward a Performative Realism: Art in France, 1957–1962
2005–2006
Lynette Roth, Johns Hopkins University: Neue Sachlichkeit in Cologne: August Sander and the Cologne Progressives
2004–2005
Zeynep Elik, Massachusets Institute of Technology: The Kinaesthetic Impulse: Space, Performance, and the Body un German Architecture, 1880–1914
2003–2004
Kent Minturn, Columbia University: Contre-Histoire: The Postwar Art and Writings of Jean Dubuffet
2002–2003
Sarah Warren, University of Southern California: Mikhail Larionov’s Futurist primitivism: The Russian Avant-Garde’s Path to Modernity
2001–2002
Rachel Haidu, Columbia University: Marcel Broodthaers, 1963–1972: From Forbidden Objects to Museum Fictions
2000–2001
Carrie Lambert, Stanford University: Yvonne Rainer’s Media: Performance, Photography, and American Culture, 1961–73
1999–2000
Katherine Kuenzl, University of California, Berkeley: The Anti-Heroism of Modern Life: A Study of Interiority, Privacy, and Intimacy in French Modernist Art Circa 1900
1998–1999
Elena Filipovic, Princeton University: Unbuilding the Politics of the Surrealist Exhibition
1997–1998
Charles Palermo, The Johns Hopkins University: La Peau de la Peinture: Miró and the Body of Painting