Department of Art History

A USC Dornsife Art History Major has been offered the 2024 Joseph F. McCrindle Curatorial Internship in European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and a USC Provost’s Summer Research Fellowship in order to support her senior honors thesis.

From Assistant Professor Luke Fidler,  Art History: 

“Jina Umakanthan, who is writing an honors thesis with me, has just been awarded the Joseph McCrindle Curatorial Internship in European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. I’m extremely proud of Jina, who is an outstanding art historian in the making.”

Congratulations to Margot Yale!

Margot Yale has received the Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the 2024–25 academic year and the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2024–25 academic year.

Congratulations to Olivia Armandroff! She has received a George Gurney and Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for 2024-25 and a Crystal Bridges Tyson’s Scholar Fellowship for 2024-25, as well as a residential grant at the Yale Center for British Art.

Elissa Watters has been selected as a recipient of the General Education Graduate Assistant Award!

Eve Sperling has been awarded a 2024 Kress Fellowship for German immersion at Middlebury Language School for this summer.

Weronika Malek-Lubawksi has won an NCHA Graduate Student Fellowship to attend the International Congress of History of Art (CIHA) in Lyon in 2024, and the Stephen F. Cohen-Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Association, 2024-25

Congratulations to Jessica Williams on receiving the very prestigious Chateaubriand fellowship for Fall 2024.

Has been awarded a Morgan-Menil Predoctoral Fellowship at the Morgan Library & Museum and the Menil Collection, and a Huntington Museum and Library Short-term Research Fellowship for 2024-25

Congratulations to Courtney Carter, who has been awarded the Kenneth J. Botto Research Fellowship from the Center for Creative Photography and the Davidson Family Fellowship from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art!

Natalia Lauricella has been appointed Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco.

Congratulations! Yoonah has accepted a tenure-track job as Assistant Professor of Art History at Pepperdine University beginning in fall 2024.

Congratulations on her position as an USC Dornsife Teaching Fellow, Los Angeles, CA.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/isabel-wade/

Congratulations to Anne LaGatta! She has accepted a 2-year Visiting Asst. Professorship at Kenyon College in Ohio.

Congratulations to Ashton Cooper! She has accepted a position as Curatorial Assistant at the Hammer Museum.

Congratulations to Frances Lazare who has accepted a position at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA).

Congratulations to Myles Little on completing his PhD. Dissertation Title: Blackout: Photography, Darkness, and New York City, 1965-1985

Congratulations to Dora Vanette on completing her PhD. Dissertation Title: “Architecture of Care: Building for Aging in Mid-century America, 1945-1968”.