Their dissertation, “Un-Imaginable: Travesti Visualities in Latin/x America, 1890s–1960s," charts a new history of modern Latin American art from the vantage point of trans life and self-imagining. Moving beyond national paradigms through case studies spanning Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico, the project frames the visual culture of the early twentieth century through a regional trans identity—what in Spanish and Portuguese is known as “travesti”—that troubles and theatricalizes the legibility of womanhood.
Kinaya Hassane , PhD candidate in African Art History, has been awarded a prestigious Woodson Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2026–2028) at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
Professor Erich Kessel is a Career Enhancement Fellow for the 2026–27 Academic
Year at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (C&S).
Conservation Center Faculty Awarded 2026 NYU Research Catalyst Grant
Meredith Martin Receives a 2026-2027 Getty Fellowship for Her Project
Colonial Provenance Networks: Haiti and the Paris Art World
John Hopkins Receives a 2026-2027 Getty Fellowship for His Project
Beyond Object Biographies: Ethical and Intellectual Stewardship for a New
Era of University Collections
L. W. Schermerhorn (MA '13) appointed President of the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation
Students in Prof. Martin's "Visualizing Turks" Seminar Participate in
Exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe
C. D. Dickerson III (PhD '06) will be the new Dean of the Center for Advanced
Study in the Visual Arts
Fatima Quraishi’s (PhD '19) forthcoming book,
Palimpsests Past and Present
,
has won the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize from the American Institute of
Indian Studies.
Alumna Esther Bell (PhD '11) Named Next Director of the Clark Art Institute
Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen will be a 2026 Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at
the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
IFA Students Sink their Teeth (Literally!) into the Ephemeral Arts in Prof.
Meyer’s Seminar
