{"id":137,"date":"2023-02-19T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/vsgc\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:34:03","slug":"funding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/vsgc\/funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2025 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Gregory Burns<br \/>\nEnglish<\/p>\n<p>Claire Carcara<br \/>\nArt History<\/p>\n<p>Eileen DiPofi<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Griffith<br \/>\nArt History<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Hanson (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)<br \/>\nArt History<\/p>\n<p>Anastasia Kahn<br \/>\nArt History<\/p>\n<p>Vlada Lodesk<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies<\/p>\n<p>Jose Muzquiz<br \/>\nPolitical Science<\/p>\n<p>Hanna Navitskaia<br \/>\nSlavic Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n<p>Lillian Ngan<br \/>\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures<\/p>\n<p>Nisarg Patel<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ruys de Perez<br \/>\nArt History<\/p>\n<p>Fernanda Soria Cruz<br \/>\nCommunication<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Storm<br \/>\nArt History<\/p>\n<p>Ekaterina Tarsova<br \/>\nSlavic Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2024 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Olivia Armandroff<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Amy Ogata)<\/p>\n<p>Rose Bishop<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nDissertation research on modern American music photography at the Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame<\/p>\n<p>Claire Carcara<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)<\/p>\n<p>Eileen DiPofi<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies (advisor J.D. Connor)<br \/>\nPre-dissertation research on acting style and race in American cinema (1908-1913)<\/p>\n<p>Riley Gold<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies (advisor Thomas Pringle)<br \/>\nPre-dissertation research on Honeywell corporation motion pictures, c. 1918\u20131988<\/p>\n<p>Jarred B. Hamilton<br \/>\nReligion (advisor David Albertson)<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Hamstra<br \/>\nEnglish (advisor Joseph Allen Boone)<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Hanson<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<\/p>\n<p>Wakae Nakane<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies (advisor Michael Renov)<\/p>\n<p>Nisarg Patel [\u0aa8\u0abf\u0ab8\u0ab0\u0acd\u0a97 \u0aaa\u0a9f\u0ac7\u0ab2]<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Neetu Khanna)<br \/>\nArchival research on German photography in 19th century India<\/p>\n<p>Tania Sarfraz<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies (advisor Tara McPherson)<\/p>\n<p>Kate Tomashevskaia<br \/>\nSlavic Languages and Literatures (advisor Ellina Sattarova)<\/p>\n<p>Elissa Watters<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Amy Ogata)<br \/>\nDissertation research, &#8220;Print as Politics: The Prints of Gerd Arntz and the Cologne Progressives, 1918\u20131933&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiyang Xu<br \/>\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Jenny Chio)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2023 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Rose Bishop<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nPre-dissertation research on the history of celebrity, fashion, and advertising photography<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Carter<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Megan Luke)<br \/>\nResearch on late Pictorialism in the United States<\/p>\n<p>Anna Flinchbaugh<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Kate Flint)<br \/>\nResearch on embroidery artist Lily Yeats<\/p>\n<p>Anne LaGatta<br \/>\nArt History (advisor John Pollini)<br \/>\n\u201cThe Most Beautiful and Enduring Images\u201d: Visual Culture in the Principate of Tiberius<\/p>\n<p>Weronika Malek (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Megan Luke)<br \/>\nResearch on painter and designer Henryk Berlewi and poet and art collector Jan Brzekowski<\/p>\n<p>Lillian Ngan<br \/>\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Brian Bernards)<br \/>\nTranspacific Worldmaking: Vietnam Crossings with Sinophone Cultural Production<\/p>\n<p>Pablo Obando-Guzm\u00e1n<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Erin Graff-Zivin)<br \/>\nIn search of a visually mediated (de)lettered culture: the emergence of literary f\u00fatbol\/futebol in Argentina and Brazil<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Seuffert (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)<br \/>\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Akira Mizuta Lippitt)<br \/>\nAdjusting, Creating, Disengaging: Women\u2019s Bodies and Embodied Experience in Cinema and Visual Culture in Japan, 1972-1989<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Storm<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)<br \/>\nPre-dissertation research on Japanese modern art and its relationship to the West<\/p>\n<p>Suiyi Tang<br \/>\nAmerican Studies &#038; Ethnicity (advisor Viet Thanh Nguyen)<br \/>\nResearch on the accretion of race and gender as they have settled on nylon<\/p>\n<p>Kate Tomashevskaia<br \/>\nSlavic Languages and Literature (advisor Colleen McQuillen)<br \/>\nPre-dissertation research on Soviet horror films from the Perestroika period and early post-Soviet horror films<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Williams<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nSports, Illustrated: Photographing the Olympic Games, 1924-1968<\/p>\n<p>Kaiyang Xu<br \/>\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Jenny Chio)<br \/>\nField Research on Chinese Vlog-making and the Grassroots Mediation of China-Africa Relationship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2022 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Rose Bishop<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nParis Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: research on the status of photographers in early French film and celebrity culture<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Carter<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Megan Luke)<br \/>\nParis Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life:  research on the Pictorialist photographers working in France from 1880-1920<\/p>\n<p>Corina Copp<br \/>\nDivision of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (advisor Priya Jaikumar)<br \/>\nProcess Inquiries: Transmedial Collaboration in the Feminist Nomadic State<\/p>\n<p>Nick Earhart<br \/>\nEnglish (advisor John Carlos Rowe)<br \/>\nThe Poetics of the Los Angeles River<\/p>\n<p>Theodor J. Hamstra<br \/>\nEnglish (advisor Joseph Allen Boone)<br \/>\nJoseph Campbell, Myth, and the Senses<\/p>\n<p>Maddy Henkin<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)<br \/>\nThe Whole Body of Work: Lenore G. Tawney Foundation <\/p>\n<p>Lindsay S. R. Jolivette<br \/>\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Youngmin Choe)<br \/>\nForgotten Forests<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Lantz (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Panivong Norindr)<br \/>\nResearch on Lou Stoumen at Center for Creative Photography<\/p>\n<p>Rocio Le\u00f3n<br \/>\nAmerican Studies and Ethnicity (advisor Laura Isabel Serna)<br \/>\nLatinx Mediascapes: Aesthetics, Culture, and Industry<\/p>\n<p>Myles Little<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nResearch on Time Inc. archive at New York Historical Society<\/p>\n<p>Weronika Malek-Lubawski<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Megan Luke)<br \/>\nKhardziev Collection at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam<\/p>\n<p>Wakae Nakane<br \/>\nDivision of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (advisor Michael Renov)<br \/>\nEmbodying Subjectivity: Essayism and Documentary in Postwar Japan<\/p>\n<p>Lillian Ngan<br \/>\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures (advisor Brian Bernards)<br \/>\nIntersections of Decolonization: The Transpacific Representations of Vietnam in Sinophone Cultural Production<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Olivia C. Harrison)<br \/>\nResearch on Syrian artist and researcher Nour Asalia<\/p>\n<p>Elissa Watters<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Megan Luke)<br \/>\nResearch on visual representations of women in print culture during the Weimar Republic<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Campbell Whiteley<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture (advisor Edwin Hill)<br \/>\nParis Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: research on the films of George M\u00e9li\u00e8s<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Williams<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Megan Luke)<br \/>\nParis Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: research on the relationship between the rise of &#8220;modern&#8221; sports and the birth of film<\/p>\n<p>Margot E. Yale<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)<br \/>\nParis Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life: Jean Renoir&#8217;s 1936 film &#8220;Le Crime de Monsieur Lange&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2021 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Olivia Armandroff<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Amy Ogata)<br \/>\nExploring the life and work of the artist Jean Charlotte<\/p>\n<p>Corina Copp<br \/>\nDivision of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (advisor Priya Jaikumar)<br \/>\nMarjorie Keller, Maria Lassoing, and NYC&#8217;s Women\/Artists\/Filmmakers<\/p>\n<p>Jelena Culibrk<br \/>\nDivision of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (advisor Aniko Imre)<br \/>\nTelevising the Invisible Hand: The BBC and postwar (neo)liberalism, 1968-1980<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Diskin<br \/>\nHistory (advisor Peter C. Mancall)<br \/>\nMaking Manhattan: Architecture, Constitutionalism, and the Politics of Place, 1614-1701<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Hamstra<br \/>\nEnglish (advisor William R. Handley)<br \/>\nResearch on the Joseph Campbell Papers archive at the New York Public Library<\/p>\n<p>Huan He (Anne Friedberg Memorial Lecture)<br \/>\nAmerican Studies &#038; Ethnicity (advisor Viet Thanh Nguyen)<br \/>\nThe Racial Interface: Informatics and Asian\/America<\/p>\n<p>Maddy Henkin<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)<br \/>\nAmerican Craft Council Archives<\/p>\n<p>Anne LaGatta<br \/>\nArt History (advisor John Pollini)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Most Beautiful and Enduring Images&#8221;: Visual Culture in the Principate of Tiberius<\/p>\n<p>Isabel Wade<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nGlossy Buildings, Planned Images: Architectural Photography across Contested Spaces in Los Angeles, 1940-1980<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Williams<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Megan Luke)<br \/>\nCigarettes and Sports: Popular Photography of the Olympics in Reemtsma Collection Books, 1924-1941<\/p>\n<p>Margot Yale<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Suzanne Hudson)<br \/>\nResearch on California Graphic Arts Division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project at National Archives and Archives of American Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2020 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Grace Converse<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Amy Ogata)<br \/>\nAnne Friedberg Memorial Grant: Art, Theosophy, and the Making of Occult California, 1890\u20131945<\/p>\n<p>Jelena Culibrk<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies (advisor Aniko Imre)<br \/>\nTelevising \u201cthe invisible hand\u201d: Debating and restructuring the postwar welfare state through televisual historiography, 1969-1980<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Hamstra<br \/>\nEnglish (advisor William Handley)<br \/>\nExploratory research on the work of Joseph Campbell<\/p>\n<p>Huan He<br \/>\nAmerican Studies and Ethnicity (advisor Viet Nyugen)<br \/>\nLaboratories of Desire: Informatic and Imaginative Visions in Asian\/America<\/p>\n<p>Harry Hvdson<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies (advisor Tara McPherson)<br \/>\nThe Senses of Justice<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Lauricella<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nCollaboration in Color: Master Printers and the Avant-Garde in Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle France<\/p>\n<p>Myles Little<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nResearch on American paparazzo Ron Galella and filmmaker and Galella documentarian Leon Gast<\/p>\n<p>Weronika Malek<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Megan Luke)<br \/>\nExploratory research in developments in Moscow, Berlin, K\u00f6ln, and Prague on figurative paintings within modernism in interwar Europe<\/p>\n<p>Joselyn Takacs<br \/>\nCreative Writing and Literature (advisor Aimee Bender)<br \/>\nPetroleum in Five Acts: Slow Violence in the Mississippi River Delta and the Niger River Delta<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Young<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies (advisor Christine Acham)<br \/>\n\u201cI Can\u2019t Afford the Luxury of Being Just An Actress&#8221;: The Politicized Work of African American Actresses on Television<\/p>\n<p>Zmira Zilkha<br \/>\nArt History (advisor Vanessa Schwartz)<br \/>\nBound Babylonia: Family Albums and the Construction of Iraqi Jewish Identity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2019 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Sara Bakerman<br \/>\n(CNCS)<br \/>\n\u201cA Phenomenon Called Katharine Hepburn\u201d: Nostalgia and Aging Stardom on Broadway<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Charlap<br \/>\n(AHIS)<br \/>\nResearch on the relationship between craft and design in the 1950s <\/p>\n<p>Sarah Frontiera<br \/>\n(ENGL)<br \/>\nResearch on the representation of animals in the 19th-century zoo<\/p>\n<p>Huan He<br \/>\n(AMSE)<br \/>\nLaboratories of Desire: Race, Empire, and Creativity in Asian\/American Information Culture<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Howell<br \/>\n(CaMS)<br \/>\nResearch on the intersection of avant-garde and documentary film practices in documentation of the American West post-1945<\/p>\n<p>Ennuri Jo<br \/>\n(CaMS)<br \/>\n\u201cPoetics of Water: Cinema and the Fluid Community\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ichigo Mina Kaneko<br \/>\n(CSLC)<br \/>\nResearch on the politics of aesthetics around questions of flatness, depth, and opticality in postwar, \u201cpost-atomic\u201d Japanese visual media<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Lantz<br \/>\n(CPCM)<br \/>\nResearch on Lou Stoumen in the Edmund L. and Nancy K. Dubois Library at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego<\/p>\n<p>Myles Little<br \/>\n(AHIS)<br \/>\nSlim 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<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Mann<br \/>\n(ENGL)<br \/>\nThe Punch Card Imagination: Authorship and Early Computing History\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darshana Mini<br \/>\n(Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)<br \/>\n(CNCS)<br \/>\nThe Transnational Journeys of Malayalam Soft-porn: Obscenity, Censorship and the Mediation of Desire<\/p>\n<p>Dina Murokh<br \/>\n(AHIS)<br \/>\n\u201cA Sort of Picture Gallery\u201d: The Visual Culture of Antebellum America<\/p>\n<p>Cord-Heinrich Plinke<br \/>\n(CSLC)<br \/>\nThe Other is Present: Memory, Heritage and Embodiment<\/p>\n<p>Zeke Saber<br \/>\n(CaMS)<br \/>\nThe Emergency Exit Sign in Plato\u2019s Cave<\/p>\n<p>Michael Turcios<br \/>\n(CaMS)<br \/>\nRelational Displacements: Urban Decolonial Consciousness and Visual Culture of Liberation<\/p>\n<p>Isabel Wade<br \/>\n(AHIS)<br \/>\nFraming the Formless: Architectural Photography and Urban Renewal in Los Angeles, 1940-1980 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2018 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS:\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Emma Ben Ayoun<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies<br \/>\nSick cinema: disease and disability on screen<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Charlap<br \/>\nArt History<br \/>\nThe International Cooperation Administration Abroad: Design, Technical Training, and Israel in the 1950s<\/p>\n<p>Grace Converse<br \/>\nArt History<br \/>\nTheosophy in American visual and performing art, design, and architecture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries<\/p>\n<p>Debjani Dutta<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies<br \/>\nTremulous Media: Nature, Technology, and the Seismic Imagination<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Jordan<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture<br \/>\nAesthetics in &amp; of the archive: thinking through media, collectivity, and art practice<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Lantz<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture<br \/>\nThe First of Seven Lives: Exploring Chris Marker\u2019s Archives at the Cin\u00e9matheque Fran\u00e7aise<\/p>\n<p>Frances Lazare<br \/>\nArt History<br \/>\nPainters and Poets in Collaboration: Tiber Press and the New York School<\/p>\n<p>Myles Little<br \/>\nArt History<br \/>\nSlim Aarons: Photography, Privilege and the Mass Media<\/p>\n<p>April Makgoeng<br \/>\nReligion<br \/>\n\u2018What the Church Can Do\u2019: Protestant Films about Foreign Missions 1935-1970<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Mann<br \/>\nEnglish<br \/>\nAuthors and Algorithms<\/p>\n<p>Darshana Mini<br \/>\nCinema and Media Studies<br \/>\nThe Transnational Journeys of Malayalam Soft-porn: Obscenity, Censorship and the Mediation of Desire<\/p>\n<p>Maria Francesca Piazzoni<br \/>\nPolicy, Planning, and Development<br \/>\nFrom Jews to Bangladeshis. Marginalized Street Vendors in the Center of Rome, 1871 to the Present (Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant)<\/p>\n<p>Steven Samols<br \/>\nHistory<br \/>\nUrsula Wolff Schneider and a Transnational Jewish Spectatorship<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline Sheean<br \/>\nComparative Studies in Literature and Culture<br \/>\nPathological Cityscapes: Tracing a Modern Iberian Psychogeography through Film<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2017 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS:\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Emily Anderson<br \/>\nArt History<br \/>\nGold Leaf on Blue Paper: Printing the Bespoke Book in Early Modern Italy<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Chan<br \/>\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures<br \/>\nChoreographing the Sinophone Body: Martial Arts and Embodied Languages in Hong Kong Popular Media<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Diskin<br \/>\nHistory<br \/>\nAlexander Lenoir\u2019s \u201cSense\u201d of the Past<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Dodds<br \/>\nArt History<br \/>\nCollecting the Renaissance: The Samuel H. 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