Spring 2023
- At the spring 2023 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following fellowships and grants were awarded:
MA/MPhil Studentship
- Skye Weston to undertake an MA of History in Art with a research focus on DisCrit as a means of understanding post-war British art and its contribution to a "British" collective memory at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Doctoral Scholarship
- Zoe Bromberg McCarthy to undertake a doctoral project titled Reconceiving Blackness Within British Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Early Career Fellowship
- Grant agreed. Deferred to 2024.
Mid-career Fellowships
- Adeyemi Akande (University of Lagos) for the project Sketching Realities: Merits and Veracity of the Illustrated London News’ Images on West Africa, 1842–1900.
- Ben Cranfield (Royal College of Art) for the project With Time: Curating the Contemporary in Post-war Britain.
- Helen Hughes (Monash University) for the project Art and Convict Transportation from Britain and Ireland to Australia, 1787–1868.
- Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute of Art) for the project The Rule: Forming Lives, Medieval and Modern
- Luke Gartlan (University of St Andrews) for the project St Andrews and the Global Networks of Early Victorian Photography.
- Madhuri Desai (Pennsylvania State University) for the project Shared Antiquarianisms: Maratha Temple Architecture and the East India Company.
- Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst) for the project Impressive Politics: Reproduction, Representation and the Wars of the Roses.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Avigail Moss for the project Peculiar Risks: Art and Insurance, 1780–1925.
- Katherine Calvin for the project Antiquarian Speculations: Art, Credit and Collecting Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1660–1830.
- Naomi Vogt for the project Invented Rituals.
- Nora Epstein for the project Visual Commonplacing: The Transmission and Reception of Printed Devotional Images in Reformed England.
- Rosalind Hayes for the project "Look to Your Eating": Animals, Meat and Visual Culture in Britain, 1880–1910.
- Sushma Griffin for the project Resistant Mediations: The Colonial Camera and the Art of Indian Pilgrimage.
Junior Fellowships
- Altair Brandon-Salmon (Stanford University) for the project Strange Worlds: London, 1940–1994.
- Ariel Kline (Princeton University) for the project Mapping Fairyland: The Imperial Space of Mid-Victorian Fairy Paintings.
- Gian Marco Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma) for the project Antonio Zucchi (1726–1795): An Eighteenth-century Painter Between Italy and England.
- Sarah Hutcheson (Harvard University) for the project Spatialising the Restoration: The Building Projects of Charles I.
Senior Fellowships
- Dr Alex Bremner (University of Edinburgh) for the project A New History of Victorian Architecture.
Rome Fellowship
- Dr Emma Merkling to spend three months at the British School at Rome to work on the project Finding Annie Swynnerton: British-Italian Symbolist Networks in Rome, 1880-1920
Research Support Grants
- Ben Pollitt towards research costs for the project Visualising the Elements in the Art of British Maritime Exploration (1766–1814) in Australian Collections.
- Catlin Langford towards research costs for the “Shot her way to success”: The Life and Work of Eva Barrett.
- Christine Slobogin towards research costs for the project Plastics on Paper: Dickie Orpen and the Visual Culture of Second World War Plastic Surgery in Britain.
- Damiët Schneeweisz towards research costs for the project Traveling Pictures: Tracing Portrait Miniatures in the British West Indies.
- Eleanor Stephenson towards research costs for the project The Robertson-Aikman Collection and Archive in Scotland.
- Hannah Darvin towards research costs for the project Sentimentalising Medicine: Luke Fildes’ The Doctor (1891) and the Idealised Image of the Physician-Patient Relationship.
- Heather Mullender-Ross towards research costs for the project Putting Us in the Picture: The Origins and Development of Stefan Themerson’s “Kurt Schwitters on a Time-Chart”.
- James Bell towards research costs for the project To All My Homosexual Schoolmasters: Intergenerational Learning in the Archives of AIDS Activism.
- Jean Marie Christensen towards research costs for the project Bodies of the Crown: Kinship, Health, and the Construction of the Royal Body in Early Modern English Portraiture.
- Kelly Rappleye towards research costs for the project Moving (with) Images: Building Curatorial Knowledges of Glasgow’s Urban Landscape.
- Massimiliano Papini towards research costs for the project Late Victorian and Edwardian Japonisme in Peripheral Britain: Transmediality and Transculturality in John George Sowerby’s Art Practices across Painting, Ceramic Design, and Children’s Illustrated Books, 1880–-1914.
- Michael Andrew Michael towards research costs for the project From Westminster to Rome.
- Réjean Legault towards research costs for the project Brutalism and the Materiality of Post-war Architecture in Britain.
- Sarah Carter towards research costs for the project Empire Follows Art: Trafficking Culture in Imperial Britain 1780–1830.
- Sarah Gould towards research costs for the project Millais, un peintre hors du temps.
- Simon Constantine towards research costs for the project Aberdeen Harbour from Above and Below, 1853–1908.
- Susannah Lyon-Whaley towards research costs for the project “little & pretty like Hammersmith as her majesty says”: Catherine of Braganza’s Lost Dowager House and Garden.
- Tor Scott towards research costs for the project Edith Rimmington and British Surrealism.
Event Support Grants
- British Academy/University of Manchester to support the virtual conference Histories, Art Histories and Heritage Narratives in Eastern Africa.
- Dartington Trust to support the symposium Creative Sanctuary Dartington in the 1930s and Beyond.
- eikones, Universität Basel to support the workshop Materialising Transparency.
- London Linnean Society to support the conference Extinct: Empire, Art, Natural Histories in a Vanishing Planet.
- MK Gallery, Milton Keynes to support the conference Entangled Histories: South Asian Miniatures and Britain.
- Murray Edwards College, Cambridge to support the conference The Women's Art Collection: Artworks and Artists in Context.
- Westminster Abbey to support the workshop Westminster Abbey Sixteenth-century Terracotta.