Grants Programs: Senior Fellowships

Dissertation fellowships | Senior fellowships | Master of fine arts fellowships

The Dedalus Foundation’s Senior Fellowship program is intended to encourage and support critical and historical studies of modern art and modernism.  Under this program, fellowships are awarded to writers and scholars who have demonstrated their abilities through previous accomplishments and who are not currently matriculated for academic degrees.  Applicants must be citizens of the United States.  Fellowship stipends vary according to the needs of the specific project, with a maximum of $30,000.  Qualified individuals should proceed to our online registration and application process.

The past recipients of the Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellowships are:

2008
Wendy Lesser, Shostakovich and His Quartets: The Private Legacy of a Public Artist

2007
William Camfield, Francis Picabia (1879-1953) A Catalogue Raisonné

2006
Joan Rothfuss, The Unexpected Is Not A Threat: A Critical Biography of Charlotte Moorman

2005
Catherine Craft, An Audience of Artists: Dada Artists and Viewers in New York, 1946-1969

Rhonda Garelick, Antigone in Vogue: The Theatrical Work of Coco Chanel

2004
Jonathan Fineberg, When We Were Young: The Art of the Child

2003
Christine Poggi, Modernity as Trauma: The Cultural Politics of Italian Futurism

2002
Debra Balken, Harold Rosenberg and the Fate of American Art

Rochelle Gurstein, Modernism, The Avant-Garde, and Mass Culture: The Case of Harold Rosenberg

2001
Lauren Weingarden, Reflections on Baudelairean Modernity

2000
Paul Mattick, The Rationalization of Art: A Study in Modernism

Gary Shapiro, Archaeologies of Vision: Thinking and Seeing from Nietzsche to Foucault

1999
Matthew Affron, Fernand Léger and the Spectacle of Objects

1998
Thomas Cripps, Race and Modernism: A Paradox in the Berlin Olympiade of 1936 and its Film Homage, Olympia

Nancy Locke, Structures of Cubist Sculpture