The Smithsonian American Art Museum will host 18 new fellows for the
2018–2019 academic year. The museum’s program grants awards for scholars
and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior,
predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships. Recipients will be part of the
premier residential fellowship in American art—one that celebrates its 50th
anniversary in 2020.
“We at the Smithsonian American Art Museum are delighted to welcome this
talented group of scholars to the oldest, largest and leading program for
the study of American art and culture,” said Stephanie Stebich, The
Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The 2018–2019 museum fellows are:
• Paisid Aramphongphan, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American
Art, De Montfort University; “Paul Thek: Body Mass Index”
• Renée Ater, senior fellow, University of Maryland, Emerita; “Contemporary
Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space and Civic
Engagement”
• Sarah Beetham, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan Fellow awarded through the
James Smithson Fellowship Program, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts;
“Monumental Crisis: Accident, Vandalism and the Civil War Citizen Soldier”
• Alison Boyd, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art,
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz–Max-Planck-Institut; “‘Your Country?
How Came It Yours?’: Divergent Artistic and Political Claims for the ‘Soil’
in America in the 1930s–1940s”
• James Brookes, predoctoral fellow, University of Nottingham; “Picturing
the Civil War: Visual Culture of the Rank-and-File”
• J.V. Decemvirale, SAAM Predoctoral Fellow in Latinx Art, University of
California, Santa Barbara; “Knowing Your Place and Making Do: Radical Art
Activism in Black and Latino Los Angeles, 1968 to the Present”
• Clarisse Fava-Piz, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art,
University of Pittsburgh; “Sculpting beyond Borders: George Grey Barnard
and Andrew O’Connor during the Age of Rodin”
• Christopher Green, predoctoral fellow, The Graduate Center, City
University of New York; “Masked Moderns: Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond
Revival”
• Jennifer Greenhill, Joe and Wanda Corn Senior Fellow, University of
Southern California; “Commercial Imagination: American Art and the
Advertising Picture”
• Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Institution
Predoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University; “This Must Be the Place: Latin
American Artists in New York, 1965–1975”
• Yinshi Lerman-Tan, Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford
University; “Living Still: John F. Peto and the Artist across Time”
• Talia Shabtay, Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Institution
Predoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University; “From THINK to Look: Vision
and the Mathematical Sciences in the Cybernetic Age, 1946–1961”
• Kimia Shahi, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Princeton University;
“Margin, Surface, Depth: Picturing the Contours of the Marine in
Nineteenth-Century America”
• Sarah-Neel Smith, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art,
Maryland Institute College of Art; “Exhibiting the Middle East: The Lost
History of America’s Cultural Exchanges”
• Krista Thompson, George Gurney Senior Fellow, Northwestern University;
“Black Light: Tom Lloyd and Refracting Art Histories”
• Phillip Troutman, senior fellow, The George Washington University;
“‘Incendiary Pictures’: The Radical Visual Rhetoric of American Abolition
in the 1830s”
• Jillian Vaum, Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, University
of Pennsylvania; “Between Subject and Type: Representing Free African
Americans in Antebellum Portraiture”
• Helena Vilalta, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art,
University College London; “From Information to Incorporation: Embodied
Conceptualism in New York, ca. 1970”
Since 1970, the museum has provided more than 680 scholars with financial
aid and unparalleled research resources, as well as a world-class network
of colleagues. Former fellows now occupy positions in prominent academic
and cultural institutions across the United States and in Australia, Asia,
the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and South America. Fellowship
opportunities include the Joe and Wanda Corn Fellowship for scholarship
that spans American art and American history; the Douglass Foundation
Fellowship for predoctoral research; the Patricia and Phillip Frost
Fellowship; the George Gurney Fellowship for the study of American
sculpture; the alumni-supported Joshua C. Taylor Fellowship; the Terra
Foundation for American Art Fellowships for the cross-cultural study of art
of the United States up to 1980; the William H. Truettner Fellowship and
the Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for the study of excellence in
all aspects of American art. The museum also hosts fellows supported by the
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program, the Smithsonian Artist Research
Fellowship Program, the Smithsonian Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Fellowships
in Conservation of Museum Collections Program and the Arts and Humanities
Research Council’s International Placement Scheme. Applications for the
2019 fellowship cycle will open in September. For additional information on
how to apply, visit AmericanArt.si.edu/fellowships, call (202) 633-8353 or
email [log in to unmask]
Directories of current and past fellows and their project abstracts can be
found at AmericanArt.si.edu/research/fellowships/fellows.
posted by Amelia Goerlitz, Chair of Academic Programs, SAAM
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