Current Funding

Olivia Armandroff
Art History (advisor Amy Ogata)

Rose Bishop
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Dissertation research on modern American music photography at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Claire Carcara
Art History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)

Eileen DiPofi
Cinema and Media Studies (advisor J.D. Connor)
Pre-dissertation research on acting style and race in American cinema (1908-1913)

Riley Gold
Cinema and Media Studies (advisor Thomas Pringle)
Pre-dissertation research on Honeywell corporation motion pictures, c. 1918–1988

Jarred B. Hamilton
Religion (advisor David Albertson)

Teddy Hamstra
English (advisor Joseph Allen Boone)

Jessica Hanson
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)

Wakae Nakane
Cinema and Media Studies (advisor Michael Renov)

Nisarg Patel [નિસર્ગ પટેલ]
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Neetu Khanna)
Archival research on German photography in 19th century India

Tania Sarfraz
Cinema and Media Studies (advisor Tara McPherson)

Kate Tomashevskaia
Slavic Languages and Literatures (advisor Ellina Sattarova)

Elissa Watters
Art History (advisor Amy Ogata)
Dissertation research, “Print as Politics: The Prints of Gerd Arntz and the Cologne Progressives, 1918–1933”

Kaiyang Xu
East Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Jenny Chio)

Rose Bishop
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Pre-dissertation research on the history of celebrity, fashion, and advertising photography

Courtney Carter
Art History (advisor Megan Luke)
Research on late Pictorialism in the United States

Anna Flinchbaugh
Art History (advisor Kate Flint)
Research on embroidery artist Lily Yeats

Anne LaGatta
Art History (advisor John Pollini)
“The Most Beautiful and Enduring Images”: Visual Culture in the Principate of Tiberius

Weronika Malek (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)
Art History (advisor Megan Luke)
Research on painter and designer Henryk Berlewi and poet and art collector Jan Brzekowski

Lillian Ngan
East Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Brian Bernards)
Transpacific Worldmaking: Vietnam Crossings with Sinophone Cultural Production

Pablo Obando-Guzmán
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Erin Graff-Zivin)
In search of a visually mediated (de)lettered culture: the emergence of literary fútbol/futebol in Argentina and Brazil

Kirsten Seuffert (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)
East Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Akira Mizuta Lippitt)
Adjusting, Creating, Disengaging: Women’s Bodies and Embodied Experience in Cinema and Visual Culture in Japan, 1972-1989

Audrey Storm
Art History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)
Pre-dissertation research on Japanese modern art and its relationship to the West

Suiyi Tang
American Studies & Ethnicity (advisor Viet Thanh Nguyen)
Research on the accretion of race and gender as they have settled on nylon

Kate Tomashevskaia
Slavic Languages and Literature (advisor Colleen McQuillen)
Pre-dissertation research on Soviet horror films from the Perestroika period and early post-Soviet horror films

Jessica Williams
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Sports, Illustrated: Photographing the Olympic Games, 1924-1968

Kaiyang Xu
East Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Jenny Chio)
Field Research on Chinese Vlog-making and the Grassroots Mediation of China-Africa Relationship

Rose Bishop
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Paris Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: research on the status of photographers in early French film and celebrity culture

Courtney Carter
Art History (advisor Megan Luke)
Paris Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: research on the Pictorialist photographers working in France from 1880-1920

Corina Copp
Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (advisor Priya Jaikumar)
Process Inquiries: Transmedial Collaboration in the Feminist Nomadic State

Nick Earhart
English (advisor John Carlos Rowe)
The Poetics of the Los Angeles River

Theodor J. Hamstra
English (advisor Joseph Allen Boone)
Joseph Campbell, Myth, and the Senses

Maddy Henkin
Art History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)
The Whole Body of Work: Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Lindsay S. R. Jolivette
East Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Youngmin Choe)
Forgotten Forests

Jayson Lantz (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Panivong Norindr)
Research on Lou Stoumen at Center for Creative Photography

Rocio León
American Studies and Ethnicity (advisor Laura Isabel Serna)
Latinx Mediascapes: Aesthetics, Culture, and Industry

Myles Little
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Research on Time Inc. archive at New York Historical Society

Weronika Malek-Lubawski
Art History (advisor Megan Luke)
Khardziev Collection at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam

Wakae Nakane
Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (advisor Michael Renov)
Embodying Subjectivity: Essayism and Documentary in Postwar Japan

Lillian Ngan
East Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Brian Bernards)
Intersections of Decolonization: The Transpacific Representations of Vietnam in Sinophone Cultural Production

Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Olivia C. Harrison)
Research on Syrian artist and researcher Nour Asalia

Elissa Watters
Art History (advisor Megan Luke)
Research on visual representations of women in print culture during the Weimar Republic

Lucy Campbell Whiteley
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Edwin Hill)
Paris Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: research on the films of George Méliès

Jessica Williams
Art History (advisor Megan Luke)
Paris Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: research on the relationship between the rise of “modern” sports and the birth of film

Margot E. Yale
Art History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)
Paris Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: Jean Renoir’s 1936 film “Le Crime de Monsieur Lange”

Olivia Armandroff
Art History (advisor Amy Ogata)
Exploring the life and work of the artist Jean Charlotte

Corina Copp
Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (advisor Priya Jaikumar)
Marjorie Keller, Maria Lassoing, and NYC’s Women/Artists/Filmmakers

Jelena Culibrk
Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (advisor Aniko Imre)
Televising the Invisible Hand: The BBC and postwar (neo)liberalism, 1968-1980

Harrison Diskin
History (advisor Peter C. Mancall)
Making Manhattan: Architecture, Constitutionalism, and the Politics of Place, 1614-1701

Teddy Hamstra
English (advisor William R. Handley)
Research on the Joseph Campbell Papers archive at the New York Public Library

Huan He (Anne Friedberg Memorial Lecture)
American Studies & Ethnicity (advisor Viet Thanh Nguyen)
The Racial Interface: Informatics and Asian/America

Maddy Henkin
Art History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)
American Craft Council Archives

Anne LaGatta
Art History (advisor John Pollini)
“The Most Beautiful and Enduring Images”: Visual Culture in the Principate of Tiberius

Isabel Wade
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Glossy Buildings, Planned Images: Architectural Photography across Contested Spaces in Los Angeles, 1940-1980

Jessica Williams
Art History (advisor Megan Luke)
Cigarettes and Sports: Popular Photography of the Olympics in Reemtsma Collection Books, 1924-1941

Margot Yale
Art History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)
Research on California Graphic Arts Division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project at National Archives and Archives of American Art

Grace Converse
Art History (advisor Amy Ogata)
Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant: Art, Theosophy, and the Making of Occult California, 1890–1945

Jelena Culibrk
Cinema and Media Studies (advisor Aniko Imre)
Televising “the invisible hand”: Debating and restructuring the postwar welfare state through televisual historiography, 1969-1980

Teddy Hamstra
English (advisor William Handley)
Exploratory research on the work of Joseph Campbell

Huan He
American Studies and Ethnicity (advisor Viet Nyugen)
Laboratories of Desire: Informatic and Imaginative Visions in Asian/America

Harry Hvdson
Cinema and Media Studies (advisor Tara McPherson)
The Senses of Justice

Natalia Lauricella
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Collaboration in Color: Master Printers and the Avant-Garde in Fin-de-Siècle France

Myles Little
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Research on American paparazzo Ron Galella and filmmaker and Galella documentarian Leon Gast

Weronika Malek
Art History (advisor Megan Luke)
Exploratory research in developments in Moscow, Berlin, Köln, and Prague on figurative paintings within modernism in interwar Europe

Joselyn Takacs
Creative Writing and Literature (advisor Aimee Bender)
Petroleum in Five Acts: Slow Violence in the Mississippi River Delta and the Niger River Delta

Ashley Young
Cinema and Media Studies (advisor Christine Acham)
“I Can’t Afford the Luxury of Being Just An Actress”: The Politicized Work of African American Actresses on Television

Zmira Zilkha
Art History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)
Bound Babylonia: Family Albums and the Construction of Iraqi Jewish Identity

Sara Bakerman
(CNCS)
“A Phenomenon Called Katharine Hepburn”: Nostalgia and Aging Stardom on Broadway

Danielle Charlap
(AHIS)
Research on the relationship between craft and design in the 1950s

Sarah Frontiera
(ENGL)
Research on the representation of animals in the 19th-century zoo

Huan He
(AMSE)
Laboratories of Desire: Race, Empire, and Creativity in Asian/American Information Culture

Dylan Howell
(CaMS)
Research on the intersection of avant-garde and documentary film practices in documentation of the American West post-1945

Ennuri Jo
(CaMS)
“Poetics of Water: Cinema and the Fluid Community”

Ichigo Mina Kaneko
(CSLC)
Research on the politics of aesthetics around questions of flatness, depth, and opticality in postwar, “post-atomic” Japanese visual media

Jayson Lantz
(CPCM)
Research on Lou Stoumen in the Edmund L. and Nancy K. Dubois Library at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego

Myles Little
(AHIS)
Slim Aarons, Arnold Newman, Eliot Elisofon, and Helen Levitt and the status of identity, place and magazine photography after World War Two in the United States

Zachary Mann
(ENGL)
The Punch Card Imagination: Authorship and Early Computing History”

Darshana Mini
(Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)
(CNCS)
The Transnational Journeys of Malayalam Soft-porn: Obscenity, Censorship and the Mediation of Desire

Dina Murokh
(AHIS)
“A Sort of Picture Gallery”: The Visual Culture of Antebellum America

Cord-Heinrich Plinke
(CSLC)
The Other is Present: Memory, Heritage and Embodiment

Zeke Saber
(CaMS)
The Emergency Exit Sign in Plato’s Cave

Michael Turcios
(CaMS)
Relational Displacements: Urban Decolonial Consciousness and Visual Culture of Liberation

Isabel Wade
(AHIS)
Framing the Formless: Architectural Photography and Urban Renewal in Los Angeles, 1940-1980

Emma Ben Ayoun
Cinema and Media Studies
Sick cinema: disease and disability on screen

Danielle Charlap
Art History
The International Cooperation Administration Abroad: Design, Technical Training, and Israel in the 1950s

Grace Converse
Art History
Theosophy in American visual and performing art, design, and architecture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries

Debjani Dutta
Cinema and Media Studies
Tremulous Media: Nature, Technology, and the Seismic Imagination

Amanda Jordan
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Aesthetics in & of the archive: thinking through media, collectivity, and art practice

Jayson Lantz
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
The First of Seven Lives: Exploring Chris Marker’s Archives at the Cinématheque Française

Frances Lazare
Art History
Painters and Poets in Collaboration: Tiber Press and the New York School

Myles Little
Art History
Slim Aarons: Photography, Privilege and the Mass Media

April Makgoeng
Religion
‘What the Church Can Do’: Protestant Films about Foreign Missions 1935-1970

Zachary Mann
English
Authors and Algorithms

Darshana Mini
Cinema and Media Studies
The Transnational Journeys of Malayalam Soft-porn: Obscenity, Censorship and the Mediation of Desire

Maria Francesca Piazzoni
Policy, Planning, and Development
From Jews to Bangladeshis. Marginalized Street Vendors in the Center of Rome, 1871 to the Present (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)

Steven Samols
History
Ursula Wolff Schneider and a Transnational Jewish Spectatorship

Jacqueline Sheean
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Pathological Cityscapes: Tracing a Modern Iberian Psychogeography through Film

Emily Anderson
Art History
Gold Leaf on Blue Paper: Printing the Bespoke Book in Early Modern Italy

Melissa Chan
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Choreographing the Sinophone Body: Martial Arts and Embodied Languages in Hong Kong Popular Media

Harrison Diskin
History
Alexander Lenoir’s “Sense” of the Past

Lauren Dodds
Art History
Collecting the Renaissance: The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Art

Grant Johnson
Art History
Supple Materials: Sheila Hicks and the Matter of the Global

Peter Labuza
Cinema and Media Studies
“When a Handshake Meant Something”: The Rise of Entertainment Law and the Construction of Corporate Art Cinema, 1948-1967

Natalia Lauricella
Art History
The Limited Edition: Printing and Marketing for the Avant-Garde

Randall Meissen
History
Envisioning Ibero-American Nature: Early Modern Missionaries’ Religious Controversies and the Emperical Study of American Nature

Joshua Mitchell
American Studies and Ethnicity
The Prisoner’s Cinema: Film Culture in the Penal Press Before 1960

Avigail Moss
Art History
Actuarial Imaginaries of Art and Empire

Dina Murokh
Art History
Research on the relationship between text and image in 19th century print culture

Aaron Rich
Cinema and Media Studies
Visual Knowledge and the Hollywood Research Library (Anne Friedberg Memorial Award)

Anirban Baishya
Cinema and Media Studies
Viral Selves: Cellphones, Selfies and the Self-fashioning Subject in Contemporary India

Brianna Beehler
English

Sanders Bernstein
English

Melissa Chan
East Asian Languages and Culture
Choreographing the Body: Martial Movements and Embodied Languages in Sinophone Media

Lauren Dodds
Art History
Collecting the Renaissance: The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Art

Robert Gordon-Fogelson
Art History

Chris McGeorge
Art History

Joshua Mitchell
American Studies and Ethnicity
The Prisoner’s Cinema: Perception in Carceral and Cinematic Time
*Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant Recipient

Nike Nivar Ortiz
Comparative Studies
Contemporary Sovereignty and the Spectacle of Global War: Visualizing U.S. Intervention in Latin America

Aaron Rich
Critical Studies
Visual Aides: Hollywood Studio Research Departments, 1910-1970

Amanda Rudd
English
Shakespeare’s Speaking Pictures

Jacqueline Sheean
Comparative Literature
Visualizing Folly: Madness and Modernity in Hispanic Literature and Film

Kendra Atkin
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Flows of Power: Electrocution and News Syndication in the Spectacle of the Death Penalty

Nadya Bair
Art History

Sanders Bernstein
English
Pre-dissertation archival research on George Orwell’s relationship with film

Heather Blackmore
Critical Studies
The development of the Bell & Howell Filmo 16mm movie camera and its cultures of use circa 1923

Jessica Brier
Art History
Typography and Architecture at the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes

Jonathan Dentler
History
Mid-Century American Design

Amanda Kennell
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Alice in Evasion: Japanese Illustrations

Peter Labuza
Critical Studies
It’s The Pictures That Got Big: Live Television’s Transition to Hollywood

Grant Johnson
Art History
Robert Rauschenberg’s Grand Prix and the Venice Biennale

Robin Lewis
English
*Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant Recipient

Joshua Mitchell
American Studies and Ethnicity
Archival research in Louisiana towards dissertation: “The Prisoners’ Cinema: Perception in Carceral and Cinematic Time”

Avigail Moss
Art History
“Claims and Speculations: The Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century Insurance”

Kathryn Page-Lippsmeyer
East Asian Languages and Cultures
The “Space” of Japanese Science Fiction: History, Illustration, Subculture and the Body in SF Magazine

Aaron Rich
Critical Studies
Hollywood Studio Research Libraries, 1920s-1950s

Amanda Ruud
English
The emergence of silent Shakespeare films and the history of theatrical illusion

Sophia Serrano
Critical Studies
“Opium Dens and Media Hysteria: Visual Artifacts from San Francisco’s Chinatown Raids, 1870s–1930s”

Stephanie Sparling Williams
American Studies and Ethnicity
‘Speaking Out of Turn’: Race, Gender, and Direct Address in American Art Museums

Maria Zalewska
Critical Studies
Spaces of Memory and Places of Commemoration: Holocaust Memory

2018-2019
Maria Francesca Piazzoni, Ph.D.
Urban Planning and Development
Lecture: “From Jews to Bangladeshis: Marginal Street Vendors in Central Rome”

2017-2018
Aaron Rich
Visual Knowledge and the Hollywood Research Library

2016-2017
Joshua Mitchell
American Studies and Ethnicity

2015-2016
Robin Lewis
English

2014-2015
Amber Bowyer
Critical Studies
Lecture: “The Application of Animation: Instruction, Instrument, Interface” (January 2015)

2013-2014
Nadya Bair
Art History
Lecture: “Learning to Shoot: The Photographic Education of Henri Cartier-Bresson” (April 2014)

2012-2013
Mark Braude
History
Lecture: “Inventing Monte Carlo” (March 2013)

2011-2012
Matthew Amato
History
Lecture: “Slavery in the Age of Photography” (April 2012)

2010-2011
Brian R. Jacobson
Critical Studies
Lecture: “‘Black Maria’ and its Afterlives: Visual Technology and Visual Culture” (April 2011)