Spring 2025

Senior Fellowship

1. Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California) for the project The Art of Sovereignty: Making and Unmaking the British Empire

Mid-Career Fellowships

1. Alison Bennett (University of Cambridge) for the project African Saints and the Visual and Material Culture of British Churches: A Case Study of the Uganda Martyrs
2. Caroline Bressey (University College London) for the project Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
3. Edwin Coomasaru (Independent Scholar) for the project Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926-2024
4. Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani (University of Edinburgh) for the project The Commonwealth of Art and Visual Culture in Postwar Britain, 1948-1978
5. Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St Andrews) for the project Landscapes from Below, 1770-1830
6. Nina Vollenbroker (The Bartlett School of Architecture) for the project Hide and Speak: An Architectural History of Deaf Education in Britain (1840-1900)

Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Tobah Aukland for the project British Art and Extraction, 1937-1975
2. Carly Boxer for the project Pictures of Health: Medicine, The Body, and Its Image in Late Medieval England
3. Melissa Carlson for the project Painting Protest: Censorship, Subversion, and the Avant-garde in Socialist Burma (1962-1988)
4. Theo Gordon for the project Viral Landscapes: Art and HIV/AIDS in the UK
5. Danielle Hewitt for the project On The Architectural History Of Destruction: A Material History of London’s Bombsite Debris
6. Sean Ketteringham for the project Postwar Folk: Modernism, Britain, and the Anthropological Imagination
7. Alina Khakoo for the project We Shift You: Art, Infrastructure, Anti-Racism and Feminism in Britain, 1980–97

MA/MPhil Studentships

1. Orjana Rudeloff to undertake an MA in Art History at the University of Bristol with a research focus on Seeds of Invisibility: Interrogating the Intersections of Ecology and Colonialism in Ingrid Pollard’s *Three Drops of Blood*

Doctoral Scholarship

1. Nazmia Jamal to undertake a PhD at either UCL or Cardiff University with a focus on their proposed project Charting the Journey: Mapping the ways in which Sheba Feminist Publishers shaped black feminisms and queer feminisms in Britain

Early Career Fellowship

1. Award offer declined.

Rome Fellowship

1. Tom Young (The Courtauld) to spend three months at the British School at Rome to undertake research for the project ‘Old Indians’ in Italy: A Forgotten Artistic Exchange

Junior Fellowships

1. Anna Flinchbaugh (University of Southern California) to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project “Spots of Colour Treasures”: Negotiating Color in the Morris & Co. Embroidery Workshop
2. Isabella Galdone (Yale University) to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Intersecting Spheres: Victorian Women Artists and the Enmeshment of Pre-Raphaelite Painting, Needlework and Amateur Science
3. Wilson Tarbox (École Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC, Université Paris Nanterre, École du Louvre) to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project From Artist’s Initiative to Global Influence: The Evolution and Legacy of Third Text (1964–2014)

Event Support Grants

1. AmberSide Trust to support the symposium Co-Authored Narratives: Socially Engaged Artistic Practices from the North East of England
2. Caen Normandie University to support the symposium Pictorial Punch – Treasures from the Archive
3. Ffotogallery to support the Feminist Library Series
4. Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) to support the event SCAN Summit - ‘the grid’
5. The Burton at Bideford to support the symposium Melting Ice | Rising Tides; Art and Climate Change
6. The Hepworth Wakefield to support the Helen Chadwick Conference
7. The Historic Towns Trust to support the Mapping Bradford’s History events
8. The Photographers’ Gallery to support the conference Visualising the Histories of Black Britain
9. Westminster Abbey to support the workshop The Medieval Seal Bags of Westminster Abbey

Research Support Grants

1. Shaheen Alikhan toward research costs for the project Liminal Landscapes of Slavery: How the Transatlantic Slave Trade Reshaped the Waterfront of Kingston, Jamaica
2. Albert Brenchat-Aguilar toward research costs for the project ‘Unconventional Concepts of Text’: Art as Architecture’s Unrestrained Archive
3. Marta Cacho Casal toward research costs for the project Sir Grenville Temple Temple and the earliest casts of the Alhambra Palace in Britain
4. Joy Cador toward research costs for the project A marvellous stone? Marble in British painting (1851-1913)
5. Gill Crawshaw toward research costs for the project The varied career of disabled artist Audrey Barker, from assemblage to accessibility
6. Sonali Dhanpal toward research costs for the project Housing “Race Relations”: The making post-war Britain at the End of Empire
7. Sarah Feustle toward research costs for the project By your letters you will fashion Sappho’’ : The collaborative creation of a lesbian-feminist culture and identity in the UK through the magazine Sappho, 1972-1981
8. Chenxiao Jin toward research costs for the project Pictures of Meiji Japan by British Artist-Travellers between 1880 and 1910 in Japanese Collections
9. Arjuna Keshvani toward research costs for the project Drawing Empires: Botanical Art and the Politics of Colonial Memory in Britain and India
10. Irena Kossowska toward research costs for the project Cultural Transfers: Polish-British and Polish-Jewish-British Artists in Britain, 1939-1989
11. Katrina-Eve Manica toward research costs for the project William Burges’s ‘Arab Room’: Transcultural Networks of Design Between Cardiff, Sicily, and the Islamic World(s)
12. India Oswin toward research costs for the project Women and Concrete Poetry in Britain, 1960-1980
13. Emma Roques toward research costs for the project Field trip on The Women’s Art History Collective (1972-1975)
14. Michael Smith toward research costs for the project John Flaxman in India