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. This highly
competitive two-year residential fellowship supports advanced doctoral research in
African and African Diaspora studies.
Her dissertation, “Photographic Crossings: Islandness, Labor, and Comorian Mobility in
the Western Indian Ocean,” examines the itinerant trajectories of Comorian people and
photographs across the western Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
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
