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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




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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