Congratulations to Hồng-Ân Trương, who has just been named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow. From the press release: On April 9, 2019, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse … Continued
Big kudos to Ph.D. student Andrea Snow, who has been awarded the Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Award (SUTASA) for 2019. By student body referendum in 1989 and initiation of a special student fee, the Student Undergraduate Teaching Awards were established … Continued
Congratulations to graduating Honors BFA student Meredith Emery, who was one of 18 students nationally to receive a Beinecke Scholarship for her graduate studies! She will receive $4000 before she starts graduate school and $30,000 during her studies.
The Lewis Walpole Library (Yale) has awarded PhD Candidate Alexandra Wellington a George B. Cooper Fellowship to conduct research on her dissertation, “The Art of Sympathy: Picturing the British Abolition Movement, 1790-1840.” Congratulations Alex!
Congratulations to the following Art History graduate students on their awesome new internships and fellowships: Dual Degree MA/SILS student Devon Murphy and MA student Alex Jones have both received 2019-2020 Internships from the Getty Research Institute. Dual Degree MA/SILS student … Continued
Get a peak of faculty member Gesche Würfel’s ARTS 305 Darkroom Photo class in Interim Chancellor Guskiewicz’ new video (about 1:19 in):
Kal just sent us this lovely letter to let us know what his path has been like since graduation from UNC: Hi there, I graduated with a BFA in Studio Art (painting) in 2010 and was just looking at the … Continued
Congratulations to Associate Professor Lyneise Williams on the publication of her new book Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture 1852-1932! More details available at Bloomsbury Press here.
Congratulations to graduate students Miranda, Brantly, and Alexandra on what looked to be a well-attended and interactive shared talk before the performance of Compagnie Marie Chouinard at the CPA! Check out the photos here:
Ph.D. candidate Carlee Forbes will be giving a talk at the SERSAS conference on campus this weekend (http://africa.unc.edu/events/SERSAS_SEAN_2019/). In addition to the conference, on Friday, there will be a showing of a film by a Ugandan filmmaker– it promises to … Continued