Aruna D'Souza
Awarded Clark
Fellowship
Tom McDonough
Awarded Creative
Capital/Andy
Warhol Foundation
Arts Writers
Grant
John Tagg Awarded
J. Clawson Mills Art
History Fellowship
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Aruna D'Souza Awarded Clark Fellowship
Assistant Professor Aruna D’Souza has been awarded a highly competitive Clark Fellowship for research
in Spring 2008 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Professor D’Souza will work at the Clark on
her new book, Open Secrets: Intimacy between Public and Private in Late Nineteenth-Century France. Research on one of the
chapters of this book, “Strange Bedfellows: Vallotton, Marriage, and the Dreyfus Affair,” is also being supported by a
Library Research Grant from The Getty Research Center in Los Angeles.
Tom McDonough Awarded Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
In the very first year of the operation of its operation, the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation
Arts Writers Grant Program has awarded Associate Professor Tom McDonough a major grant to undertake a
project in collaboration with the artist Nancy Davenport titled, “Inhabiting Authoritarianism: Students and the Iranian
Pavilion in Paris, 1961-79.” The project will focus on the production of a "biography" of the modernist pavilion designed
by Claude Parent during a tumultuous period in French and Iranian history.
John Tagg Awarded J. Clawson Mills Art History Fellowship
The Metropolitan Museum has awarded Professor John Tagg the prestigious J. Clawson Mills Art History
Fellowship for research at the Museum in the Department of Photographs. The Fellowship is the Metropolitan
Museum’s only award for senior art historians and Professor Tagg will use it to develop his study: “Politics and
Meaning on the Eve of Revolution: Walker Evans’s Photographs for The Crime of Cuba.”
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