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 a university in the United States 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 universities in the United States should ask their department chairs for more information. (Department chairs seeking further information should contact: Grants Manager, Dedalus Foundation, 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1222, New York, N.Y. 10019; or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).)
The past recipients of the Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowships are:
2011–2012 Aglaya Glebova, University of California, Berkeley. Wilderness and Construction: Three Case Studies of Russian Landscape Representation.
2010–2011 John Casey, the Graduate Center of The City University of New York: Picturing Architectural Theory: The Architectural Photobook in Germany, 1910-1945
2009–2010 Katherine Markoski, The Johns Hopkins University: Elective Affinities: Artistic Practice at Black Mountain College, 1948-1956
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