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Our graduate students regularly apply for and receive University of Iowa and nationally competitive grants and fellowships. They also participate in graduate, regional, and national conferences and publish in peer-reviewed venues. Here is a selected list of the honors received by our students in recent years and their professional conference presentations:

2025-2026

National and international fellowships

  • Matt Bowman, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. 

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Monica Vree, Graduate College Iowa Recruitment Fellowship, 2022 – 2027 

2024-2025

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Isabel Baldrich, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Summer-Fall 2024
  • Rachel Epstein, Art History Conference Travel Award, Cleveland Symposium, 2024
  • Alyson Hurley, E.J. Stawski Travel Scholarship to Germany, summer 2024
  • Geoffrey Thomas, Art History Summer Scholar Award
  • Monica Vree, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Fall 2024
  • Monica Vree, Graduate College Iowa Recruitment Fellowship, 2022 – 2027
  • Tina Zhen Zhang, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Fall 2024

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Alan Carrillo, “Modeling the Choir of Saint-Denis, in Light of Geometry,” International Seminar on Medieval Art History, Zoom, Feb. 5, 2024
  • Rachel Epstein, "Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Primordial Ooze: Reading Surrealist Ecology in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World," Cleveland Symposium, November 22-23 2024, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Rachael Maxon, “Susa's Story: Archaeological Practice at Susa, Iran," ASOR Annual Meeting, Nov 20-24, 2024, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Abigail Minor, “Provenance Research,” New Histories of Art from Africa, Stanley Museum of Art, November 9th, 2024.

Exhibitions

  • Rachel Epstein, "Eve Drewelowe: World Travels Exhibition," School of Art, Art History, and Design, University of Iowa, 2024
  • Alyson Hurley, "Eve Drewelowe: World Travels Exhibition 1928-1929," School of Art, Art History, and Design, University of Iowa, 2024
  • Monica Vree, "Alternate Paths: New Object Histories from Africa to America," Stanley Museum of Art, August 2, 2024-February 23, 2025. 

Amelia Goldsby, "Alternate Paths: New Object Histories from Africa to America," Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, August 2, 2024 - February 23, 

2023-2024

Publications

  • Erin Daly, “Polysemic Hercules: Gustave Moreau & Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi 15 (2023): 513-536, https://rivisteopen.unimc.it/index.php/cap-cult/article/view/3277alternat

National and international fellowships

  • Matt Bowman, Duane H. King Short-Term Fellowship, Helmerich Center for American Research at the Gilcrease Museum and the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma 
  • Matt Bowman, Gulnar Bosch Travel Award, SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference) 
  • Rachel Epstein, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2024

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Myat Aung, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Summer-Fall 2023
  • Jacqueline Banigan, Art History Summer Scholar Award
  • Alan Carrillo, Graduate College Iowa Recruitment Fellowship, 2020-2025 
  • Erin Daly, Marcus Bach Fellowship, Graduate College, spring 2024
  • Jessica Davis, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Spring 2024
  • Rachel Epstein, Art History Conference Travel Award, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference, 2024
  • Rachael Maxon, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Fall 2023
  • Rachael Maxon, Art History Summer Scholar Award
  • Monica Vree, Graduate College Iowa Recruitment Fellowship, 2022 – 2027
  • Aaron Wang, Graduate College Summer Fellowship

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Jacqueline Banigan, “Activating Realism: Struggle and Disrepute of the Female Model,” SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference), October 11-14, 2023, Richmond, Virginia 
  • Matt Bowman, “Early 20th-Century Taos Nocturnes: Seeing Puebloan Landscapes at Night,” SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference), October 11-14, 2023, Richmond, Virginia 
  • Matt Bowman, “From the Studio Window: Joseph Henry Sharp, the Taos Society of Artists, & Taos Puebloans Paint Early 20th-Century New Mexican Landscapes,” Southwest Art History Conference, October 4-6, 2023, Taos, New Mexico 
  • Alan Carrillo, “The Enriched Timeline Project: Historical Record Through Graphic Display,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2024 
  • Erin Daly, “A Penchant for Color: Gustave Moreau and Vittore Carpaccio,” Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, Chicago, April 4-6, 2024, Chicago, IL. Nominated for the 2024 MAHS Graduate Student Distinguished Presentation Award
  • Rachel Epstein, "On the Thresholds of Madness: An Analysis of Charles de Steuben’s Jeanne la Folle attendant la résurrection de Philippe le Beau son mari” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference, March 14-16, 2024, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Aaron Wang, "Empty Stairs, Provocative Threshold: Delacroix's Anti-Heroic Conception of History in the Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero", Nineteenth-Century Studies Association "Thresholds" conference, March 15, 2024, Louisville, KY
  • Monica Vree, “Design of Gothic Façades,” International Seminar on Medieval Art History, February 5, 2024, Zoom 

2022-2023

National and international fellowships

  • Amelia Goldsby, Gulnar Bosch Travel Award, SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference)
  • Aaron Wang, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2023

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Jacqueline Banigan, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Spring 2023 
  • Matthew P. Bowman, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Fall 2022
  • Matt Bowman, Graduate College Summer Fellowship, Summer 2023 
  • Alan Carrillo, Graduate College Iowa Recruitment Fellowship, 2020-2025 
  • Alan Carrillo, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Spring 2023 
  • Erin Daly, T. Anne Cleary Fellowship, Fall 2022
  • Erin Daly, Margarete Ellyson Rice Tavel Fellowship, Summer/Fall 2022
  • Rachel Epstein, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Fall 2022
  • Rachel Epstein, Art History Summer Scholar Award, 2023
  • Rachael Maxon, Graduate College Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio Fellowship, Summer 2023
  • Monica Vree, Graduate College Iowa Recruitment Fellowship, 2022 – 2027
  • Zhen (Tina) Zhang, Art History Summer Scholar Travel Award, University of Iowa

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Matt Bowman, “Maynard Dixon & Glacier National Park: Blackfeet Dislocation from Sacred Landscapes,” Brigham Young University Museum of Art Symposium, “Maynard Dixon, Searching for a Home: Painted and Poetic Imagination in the American West,” March 23-25, Provo, Utah 
  • Alan Carrillo, “Enriched Timelines and The Networks of Gothic Architecture: A Round Table Discussion,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2023
  • Amelia Goldsby, “Future Follies: Marjetica Potrč's Case Studies of Informal Settlements in Caracas,” SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference), October 26-28, 2022, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Erin Daly, "Perfidious & Promethean Potions in Gustave Moreau's Jason (1865)," Midwest Art History Society, March 30-April 1, 2023, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Recipient of the 2023 MAHS Graduate Student Distinguished Presentation Award
  • Amelia Goldsby, “The Twofold Transgressions of Tree-Body Hybridity in Fabre’s The Dying Saint Sebastian,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA), March 14-16, Louisville, Kentucky 
  • Abigail Minor: "Excess Water, Playful Pipes: Waterscapes and Social Identity in the House of the Vettii." 49th Annual Cleveland Symposium, October 13th, 2023, CWRU Art History Department and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
  • Monica Vree, “Enriched Timelines and the Networks of Gothic Architecture: A Round Table Discussion,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 5, 2023, Leeds, UK
  • Aaron Wang, "Delacroix's Reinvention of the Past in the Death of Sardanapalus", Nineteenth-Century Studies Association "Remaking the Past" conference, April 1, 2023, Sacramento, CA
  • Zhen (Tina) Zhang, “Changing the Narrative: Li E’s Reinterpretation of Southern Song Academy Painting,” 71st Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), September 16-18, 2022, Lawrence, Kansas

Internships

Publications

  • Zhang, Zhen. “Designing the Ice-Crack Pattern of Traditional Chinese Windows.” Nexus Network Journal 25, 961–984 (2023)

2021-2022

Publications

  • Matthew P. Bowman, Review of Western Art, Western History: Collected Essays, by Ron Tyler. The Western Historical Quarterly 53 (Summer 2022): 197-198.
  • Matthew P. Bowman, Review of Framing First Contact: From Catlin to Russell, by Kate Elliott. South Dakota History 52 (Summer 2022): 185-186.
  • Jessica Davis, “War of the Vulva: The Women of Otto Dix’s Lustmord Series,” in German #MeToo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770––2020, edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson, 145 - 170. Rochester: Camden House, 2022. 
  • Matthew P. Bowman, Review of Shifting Grounds: Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art, by Kate Morris. Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal 8.1 (Spring 2021): 201-203.  
  • Matthew P. Bowman and Robert Schwaller. “Capturing the Quotidian: Casta Paintings and Demographic Trends in Late Colonial Mexico.” Colonial Latin American Review 30 (2021): 423-444. 
  • Monica Vree, Review of Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral by Stephen Murray, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 52, no. 52 (2021): 275-277. 

National and international fellowships

Erin Daly, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Travel Award for Study on Venice and the Veneto

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Erin Daly, SAAH Art History Summer Scholar Research Award, Summer 2022
  • Myat Aung, SAAH Art History Summer Scholar Research Award, Summer 2022
  • Rachael Maxon, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Spring 2022
  • Rachael Maxon, Graduate College Summer Fellowship, Summer 2022 
  • Erin Daly, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Summer 2022
  • Myat Aung, GSS/Graduate College/OVPR Research Grant, Summer 2022
  • Isabel Baldrich, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Fall 2021 
  • Alisha Sanders, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Fall 2021

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Matthew P. Bowman, "Before Glacier National Park: Native Displacement in J. H. Sharp's Blackfeet Landscapes," Beyond Borders: Visualizing Diaspora, Displacement and Dispossession, Tufts University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture, April 1-2, 2022, Tufts University, Medford, MA (Zoom). 
  • Erin Daly, "The Deadly Magic of Poisonous Blood: Gustave Moreau’s Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Annual Colloquium, October 28-30, 2021, Washington, DC.

Exhibitions curated

Elizabeth Spear, "Views from the Other Side: American Land, Place, and Region after 1900," Stanley Museum of Art, May 4, 2019–December 31, 2021.

Internships

  • Matt Bowman, Humanities for the Public Good internship, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies & Iowa City Area Business Partnership, Summer 2022
  • Amelia Goldsby, Humanities for the Public Good Internship, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Public Space One, Summer 2022

2020-2021

Publications

Matt Bowman, Review of Eanger Irving Couse: The Life and Times of an American Artist, 1866-1936, by Virginia Couse Leavitt, The Western Historical Quarterly 51 (Summer 2020): 190-191.  

Participation in national research projects

Monica Vree, Graduate Research Assistant for Paris Past and Present: Enriched Timeline Research Project, UCLA, summer 2021.

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Zhen Zhang, “Replicate or Counterfeit? A Research on Catalog of Southern Song Academic Painting,” Hindsight Is/2021 KU History of Art Graduate Student Symposium, the University of Kansas, February 18-20, 2021 (online)
  • Isabel Baldrich, “Black Skin, White Hands: Ambivalence in Girodet’s Portrait of Belley,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, April 8-10, 2021 (online)
  • Rachael Maxon, “Interpreting the ‘Great’ Tradition: Darius II, Art, and Memory after Darius I,”The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting, November 12-15, 2020 (online)
  • Jessica Davis, "Jeanne Mammen and the Double Standard of Weimar Censorship," The Forty-Fourth Annual German Studies Association Conference, September 30-October 4, 2020 (online)

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Myat Aung, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Spring 2021
  • Erin Daly, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Spring 2021
  • Jessica Davis, Graduate College Summer 2020 Fellowship
  • Myat Aung, Graduate College Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio Summer 2020 Fellowship
  • Rachael Maxon, Stanley Graduate Fellowship for International Research, Summer 2021
  • Tina (Zhen) Zhang, Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies 
  • Tina (Zhen) Zhang, Stanley Graduate Fellowship for International Research

2019-2020

Publications

  • Erin Daly, co-author with Annalisa Azzoni, Christina Chandler, Mark B. Garrison, Jan Johnson, Brian Muhs. “A Demotic Tablet or Two in the Persepolis Fortification Archive,” ARTA: Achaemenid Research on Texts and Archaeology 2019.003 (May 2019): 1-32.
  • Elizabeth Spear, "A Nation on Display: Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, and Asher B. Durand." In For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design, edited by J.W. McCarthy and D. Thompson, 46-53. New York, National Academy of Design, 2019.

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Myat Aung, Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Grant
  • Jacqueline Banigan, Graduate Curatorial Fellow, Stanley Museum of Art

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Myat Aung, “Artifice and Nature at the Villa San Marco in Stabiae, Italy.” SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference), Chattanooga, Tennessee 
  • Isabel Baldrich, “Black Skin, White Hands: Ambivalence in Girodet’s Portrait of Belley” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Jessica Davis, "War of the Vulva: The Women of Otto Dix's Lustmord Series." The Forty-Third Annual German Studies Association Conference, Portland, Oregon
  • Anna Isbell, “‘He was false, and I undone!’: The Balladic and Visual Tradition of Betrayed Love, Lost Senses, and Desire for Death,” From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference, Warsaw, Poland
  • Rachael Maxon, “Darius I and the Manipulation of Memory at Susa.” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, California

Exhibitions organized

Kate Kunau, “Into the Blue,” “Kick Up Your Heels,” “The Fine Art of Shoes,” “Haunted: Marvin Cone’s Ghosts,” “Up All Night: The Art of the Dark,” Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

2018-2019

Publications

  • Lindsey Birch, “Holocaust-Era Cultural Property Looting: The United States and the Washington Principles,” Art Antiquity and Law 24 (2019): 49-66.
  • Lindsey Birch, “Contextualizing Bring Your Own Device Policies,” The Journal of Corporation Law 44 (2018): 156-69.

National and international fellowships

  • Jacqueline Banigan, MuSe Intern, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Morgan Brittain, Charles M. Russell Short-term Fellowship, Gilcrease Museum- Helmerich Center for American Research

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Lindsey Birch, Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Grant
  • Erin Daly, Stanley Graduate Award for International Research
  • Anna Isbell, Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Lindsey Birch, “Henri Matisse and the Pedagogy of Gustave Moreau,” Midwest Art History Society Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Lindsey Birch, “Gustave Moreau: Mythological Bodies and Religious Allegory,” Aesthetics After Biopolitics Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • Erin Daly, “The Seal Process in the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project: Rethinking the Methodology of Connoisseurship.” Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris, France
  • Anna Isbell, “Measuring an Uncontrollable Mind: Feminine Melancholy and Emotional Excess in Nineteenth-Century British Culture,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Supernumerary Conference on “Measure and Excess,” Rome, Italy

Exhibitions organized

Kate Kunau, “The Grand Tour: Europe Through Artists’ Eyes,” “Setting the Table: The Still Life in Art,” “If We Ran the Zoo: Animals in Children’s Book Illustration,” “Mike Wilson: One,” “Terra Nova: Power & Protest: Political Photography and Prints,” “Bruce Beasley: Aurai,” “John Beckelman: Horizons,” Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

2017-2018

Publications

  • Cory Gundlach, “Art & the Afterlife: Fantasy Coffins by Eric Adjetey Anang,” UIMA (Fall 2017): 6-9.
  • Cory Gundlach, Catalog entries for selected works of African art from the UIMA permanent collection in What’s Your Sign? Retail Architecture and the History of Signage, edited by VeroRose, 6-8. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 2017.

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Lindsey Birch, Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Grant
  • Anna Isbell, Graduate College Summer Fellowship

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Lindsey Birch, “Gustave Moreau: Defying Gravity,” Encountering the Body Symposium, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio   
  • Lindsey Birch, “Gustave Moreau's Human and Mythological Forms," Ohio Graduate Student Art History Symposium, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
  • Cory Gundlach, panelist in “Conversations in the Gallery” on Vision of Nature | Vessel of Beauty, an exhibition of art by Keith Achepohl at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
  • Cory Gundlach, “Fantasy Coffins and the UIMA Collection of African Art,” International Programs WorldCanvass event, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Anna Isbell, “Too Sentimental for Victorian Taste?: The Question of Suitable Subject Matter in Henry Peach Robinson’s Fading Away,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association on “Victorian Taste,” Oberlin College & Conservatory, Ohio
  • Anna Isbell, “’Death Has Left on Her Only the Beautiful:’ Gender, Beauty, and the Dead Body of the Lady of Shalott,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference on “Odd Bodies,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Anna Isbell, “Racial Hierarchy and Painting ‘Otherness’: Physiognomy and Symbolism in Théodore Géricault’s Depictions of Black Men,” Consortium of the Revolutionary Era 1750 - 1850, College of Charleston, South Carolina

Exhibitions organized

  • Cory Gundlach, Art & the Afterlife: Fantasy Coffins by Eric Adjetey Anang, September 16 – December 10, 2017. Curator, University of Iowa Museum of Art
  • Kate Kunau, “The Watercolors of Tara Moorman: Letters to My Ancestors,” “Uncharted Waters: The Fine Art of Watercolor Painting,” “Figure Study: The Body in Art,” “Living Proof: Visualization of Hope,” “Malvina Hoffman: A Sculptor’s Journey,” “Framing the World: The Photography of Linda & Robert Scarth,” “Flight Pattern: Birds in Art,” “Edward Hopper: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.” Curator, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

2016-2017

National and international fellowships

  • Elizabeth Spear, Junior Fellowship, Frick Center for the History of Collecting
  • Lauren Freese, National Committee for the History of Art Fellowship to attend the CIHA World Congress of Art History, Beijing

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Lauren Freese, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship
  • Mary Springer, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship
  • Heather Thorpe, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship
  • Sandra Gómez Todó, Stanley Graduate Award for International Research, International Programs
  • Anna Isbell, Stanley Graduate Award for International Research, International Programs
  • Alissa Adams, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Rebecca Smith, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Lauren Freese, Graduate College Summer Fellowship
  • Tray Ridlen, Graduate College Summer Fellowship
  • Rebecca Smith, Graduate College Summer Fellowship
  • Mary Springer, Graduate College Summer Fellowship

2015-2016

Publications

Lauren Freese, “Still Life at the Intersection: Louis Lozowick’s Politics and Aesthetics,” American Communist History 15.2 (Spring 2016).

Awards

Erin Peters, Recipient of the University of Iowa’s D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize in the Humanities and Fine Arts

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Josh Hainy, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship
  • Amanda Strasik, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Mary Springer, Graduate College Summer Fellowship

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Elizabeth Spear,  “More Lessons from Church’s Great Picture: Viewer Experience and The Heart of the Andes at the 1864 Metropolitan Sanitary Fair.” College Art Association, Washington D.C.
  • Josh Hainy, “Grecian Theory at the Royal Academy: John Flaxman and the Pedagogy of  Ancient Greek Anatomical Study.” Art, Anatomy & Medicine Symposium at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina
  • Lauren Freese,  “Eating Creatively: William Glackens’ At Mouquin’s, French Restaurants, and the Fashioning of a Creative Space.”  Southeastern College Art Conference, Pittsburgh 
  • Lauren Freese, American Antiquarian Culture Center for Historic American Visual Culture Summer Seminar
  • Tray Ridlen, “Prud’hon’s Portrait of Josephine: A Novel Fashioning.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Lincoln
  • Sandra Gómez Todó, “Teresa Cornelys, Elizabeth Chudleigh and the Culture of Masquerade: Depictions of a Female Impresario and her Patroness in the Arts of Entertainment of Eighteenth-Century London.” California State University, Sacramento’s 12th Annual Art History Symposium

2014-2015

Publications

Smith, Rebecca. "Flowers of Fragility: Examining the Structure and Design of Rose Windows." Avista Forum Journal 23:1 (Fall 2014), 52-60.

National and international fellowships

  • Sandra Gómez Todó, Fulbright Grantee
  • Josh Hainy, Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Erin Peters, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • Cory Gundlach, Marcus Bach Fellowship for Graduate Students in the Humanities
  • Rebecca Smith, Stanley Graduate Award for International Research, International Programs
  • Tray Ridlen, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Mary Springer, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Alycia Reed, Graduate College Summer Fellowship
  • Amanda Strasik, Graduate College Summer Fellowship
  • Josh Hainy, Graduate College Summer Fellowship

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Erin Peters, “Augustus as Emperor and Pharaoh in Egypt.” Archaeological Institute of American Annual Meeting, New Orleans  
  • Lauren Freese, “Consuming Italians: John Sloan’s Renganeschi’s Saturday Night.” Southeastern College Art Conference 
  • Amanda Strasik, “The Royal Mistresses of Eighteenth-Century France.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles
  • Ashley Mason, “The Marquise de Maintenon or La Scarron: Manipulative Dissimulator or Ideal maîtresse du roi?" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles
  • Sandra Gomez Todo, “Ellen Terry as an Aesthetic Symbol: The Changing Status of the Actress in Victorian England.” University of London Institute of English Studies’ 7th annual conference: Victorian Authenticity & Artifice

2013-2014

Publications

  • Lindsay E. Shannon, “Eve Drewelowe: Feminist Identity in American Art.” Women’s History Review 22:2 (Jan. 2013): 295-309.

National and international fellowships

  • Erin Peters, Chester Dale Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Lynne Larsen, Fredrick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies' Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester
  • Lynne Larsen, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institute (declined)

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Elizabeth Spear, Presidential Graduate Fellowship
  • Joseph Montez, Dean’s Fellowship
  • Summer Trentin, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • Ranelle Lueth, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • Josh Hainy, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Nathan Popp, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Erin Peters, Marcus Bach Fellowship for Graduate Students in the Humanities (declined)
  • Summer Trentin, Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Research Grant

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Josh Hainy, “Artistic Matters of Life and Death in Anatomical Study: Live Models, Cadavers and Ecorche Figures.” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
  • Lynne Larsen, “Post-colonial Identity and Architectural Preservation: The Royal Palace of Dahomey.” Arts Council of the African Studies Association Triennial Symposium on African Art.
  • Ranelle Lueth, “Behind the Lines: U.S. Combat Art Featured (or Not Featured) in Magazines.” Southeastern College Art Conference.
  • Tyler Ostergaard, “A Franco-London Fog: London, Paris and Industrialization in Monet’s views of the Seine and Thames.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference.
  • Tyler Ostergaard, “Impressionist Steam and Republican Nationalization: The Contested Representation of the Railroad in the Press and in Paint at the Third Impressionist Exhibition.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Studies Association Conference.
  • Tyler Ostergaard, “Breaking the Ice: Monet’s Les Glaçons and the 1889 Monet-Rodin retrospective at the Galerie Georges Petit.” Midwest Art History Association.
  • Mary Springer, “Examining American Collegiate Gothic Architecture Afresh.” Architectural Humanities Research Association Symposium, Dublin.
  • Summer Trentin “Emulation, Competition, and Association in Pompeii: A Survey of Peristyle Decoration.” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting.
  • Allison Phillips, “Mesmerized Dancers and Dreaming Muses.” Visions of Enchantment Conference: Occultism, Spirituality, and Visual Culture. Cambridge University, England.

2012-2013

National and international fellowships

Lynne Larsen, Fulbright Fellowship, Benin

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Lindsay Shannon, Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • Lynne Larsen, Marcus Bach Fellowship for Graduate Studies in the Humanities
  • Lynne Larsen, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Erin Peters, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Heather Thorpe, Presidential Graduate Fellowship
  • Erin Peters, Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Project for Advanced Study of Art and Life in Africa

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Emily Kerrigan, “An Artistic and Commemorative Journey through the West: Arthur Wesley Dow’s Images of Arizona and New Mexico.” Southwest Art History Conference.
  • Ashley Mason, “Pierre Mignard’s Portrait of Marquise de Maintenon as St. Frances of Rome: The Unusual Invocation of a Saint by a maîtresse du roi.” Southeastern College Art Conference.
  • Tyler Ostergaard, “Daumier’s Doubt: The Critiques of the Progress of Industrialization in the Prints of Honoré Daumier during the Second Empire and Third Republic.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference.
  • Tyler Ostergaard, "Stories of Smoke: Monet, Caillebotte, and the Gare Saint-Lazare in the Reviews of the Third Impressionist Exhibition." Southeastern College Art Conference.
  • Erin Peters, “Rethinking Egypt as a Paradigm of Periphery: The Temple of Dendur within a Global Roman Empire.” College Art Association Annual Conference.
  • Amanda Strasik, “Re-Identifying Marguerite Gérard: Gérard's Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre paintings.” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
  • Summer Trentin, “Space in Transition: Public and Private in the Pompeian Domestic Peristyle.” Public and Private in the Roman House Workshop, New York University.

2011-2012

National and international fellowships

Summer Trentin, Danielle Parks Memorial Fellowship, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Lindsay Shannon, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Alyssa Adams, Presidential Graduate Fellowship
  • Allison Phillips, Ballard-Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • Summer Trentin, Graduate College Summer Fellowship
  • Nathan Petersen, Graduate College Summer Fellowship
  • Erin Peters, Travel Grant, Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students’ Professional Development Grants Committee
  • Erin Peters, Travel Funds Award, Graduate Student Senate

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Lynne Larsen, “Contesting Power through Architecture: the Capital of Dahomey.” Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Conference
  • Tyler Ostergaard, "Monsters in the Fog: Industry and the Railroad in Manet, Monet and Caillebotte’s Paintings of the Gare Saint-Lazare and the Pont de l’Europe.” European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska.
  • Erin Peters, “Issues of Identity in Augustan Art from Roman Egypt.” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting.
  • Lindsay Shannon, “Women's Work: Monuments to Nurses in the Wake of World War I.” Women's Organizations and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War International Conference, Hamline University.
  • Mary Springer, “Harvard’s Memorial Hall: An Architect’s Vision and Patron’s Wishes.” Midwest Art History Society Conference, Wichita.

2010-2011

National and international fellowships

  • Lindsay Shannon, United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship
  • Summer Trentin, Lewis and Clark Field Scholar, American Philosophical Society

University of Iowa grants and fellowships

  • Alycia Reed, Presidential Graduate Fellowship
  • Tyler Ostergaard, Presidential Graduate Fellowship
  • Allison Phillips, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship
  • Summer Trentin, T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Lynne Larsen, Stanley Graduate Award for International Research, International Programs
  • Cory Gundlach, Stanley Graduate Award for International Research, International Programs
  • Erin Peters, Stanley Graduate Award for International Research, International Programs
  • Allison Phillips, Wilhelm and Jane Bodine Fellowship
  • Cory Gundlach, Graduate Student Senate Award for International Research
  • Erin Peters, Summer Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Steven Kerrigan, Summer Fellowship, Graduate College
  • Erin Peters, Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Research Grant
  • Summer Trentin, Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Research Grant
  • Erin Peters, Travel Award for Research, Graduate Student Senate
  • Allison Phillips, Alexander-Tomasini Travel Fund
  • Lindsay Shannon, Travel Award for Research, Graduate Student Senate

National or international professional conference presentations

  • Claire Kovacs, “The Performative Aspect of Secular Veneration: Pompeii as a Tourist Site.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference.
  • Claire Kovacs, “Degas and Manzi’s Vingt dessins: Strategies of Reproduction, Dialogues of Exchange.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference.
  • Lynne Larsen, “Royalty in Architecture: Pre-colonial History in Post-colonial Abomey.” Arts Council of the African Studies Association Triennial Symposium on African Art.
  • Lindsay Shannon, “Eve Drewelowe: Feminist Identity in American Art.” 19th Annual Conference of the Women’s History Network, Warwick University.