Research

Student Awards, Grants & Fellowships

Partial Listing: Awards are sorted into the fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) in which the award was granted, and not necessarily when the award was used. Unless noted alternatively, each student listed is in the PhD degree program.

2007 - 2008

Aksamija, Azra, Krupp Foundation Fellowship for 2008-2009, Center for European Studies at Harvard

Allais, Lucia, (2)

  • Mellon Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
  • Haarlen-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2008-2011, Princeton University.

Zeynep Çelik, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2008-2010, Columbia University.

Ferng, Jennifer (2),

  • Bourse Chateaubriand in the Humanities, Embassy of France and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2008-9
  • Institute for Historical Research Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-9.

Karimi, Pamela, Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), September 2008-September 2009.

Katz, Sarah, Summer Travel/Work/Research Award, Summer 2008, World Monuments Fund for Strawberry Hill Landscape Restoration Project, United Kingdom

Lopez-Duran, Fabiola, (5)

  • The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2008-2009;
  • The Dedalus Foundation Award;
  • The Kress Foundation Fellowship in the History of Art (Travel Fellowship);
  • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for Research in Original Sources 2007- 2008, CLIR;
  • The Harvard Center for European Studies Graduate Grant, France, July 2007.

Michailidis, Melanie, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship, Carleton College, 2007-2009

Pezolet, Nicola (2),

  • Canada Graduate Fellowship 2007-2011, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada;
  • Travel grant, French Department, Stanford University, 2007.

Widrich, Mechtild, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin: Pre-doctoral Fellowship (Fall 2007).

Wong, Winnie (2),

  • SRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008;
  • CLIR Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities in Original Sources 2008

Vronskaya, Alla G. (2),

  • Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship 2008, Social Science Research Council;
  • Scholarship (2008 London Summer School Tuition), Victorian Society in America.

Vujosevic, Tijana, American Association of University Women International Fellowship 2008-2009.

SMArchS Program

Rahmlow, Becky, W. Danforth Compton Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008.

 

2006 - 2007

Allais, Lucia (3),

  • Twelve-Month Chester Dale Doctoral Fellowship 2007-2008, CASVA Center for the Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art;
  • Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship for Ethics and Religion 2007-2008, Woodrow Wilson Foundation (Honorary);
  • Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2007-2008; American Council of Learned Societies / Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies / Mellon Foundation (Declined).

Ferng, Jennifer (2),

  • Krupp Foundation Fellowship 2007-08, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, awarded April 30, 2007;
  • MIT-France Internship 2007-08, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, awarded April 2007.

Karimi, Pamela, The Barakat Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship; January 2008-May 2008 (awarded for 2007. Deferred to 2008).

Kully, Deborah (2),

  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2007-2008;
  • Krupp Foundation Fellowship, 2007-2008; Center for European Studies.

Lopez-Duran, Fabiola (3),

  • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities in Original Sources 2007-2008; CLIR Washington DC, awarded February 21, 2007;
  • The Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship 2007-2008, Cassis, France, awarded April 16, 2007;
  • CES Graduate Research Travel Grant 2007, Center of European Studies-Harvard University, awarded May 01, 2007.

Tuerk, Stephanie, MIT-Germany -- funding for travel to Berlin; CCA Summer fellowship.

Rogers, Sarah, Eleanor Tufts Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Dept. of Art History, Southern Methodist University for 2007-09.

Wong, Winnie Won Yin, 2006 Social Sciences Research Council Pre-Dissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration .

SMArchS Program
Arkaraprasertkul, Non, The "Best Paper Award of the China Urban Housing Conference," awarded by the Committee of Science & Technology, Ministry of Construction, P.R. China, and the Center of Housing Innovations, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Sixth China Urban Housing Conference, Beijing, 2007.

Capdevila-Werning, Remei ,  “La Caixa” Fellowship Program of Spain's leading savings bank “Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona” for Spanish graduate students to enhance their studies in the USA.

Rahmlow, Rebecca, Alumni Scholarship for Fontainebleau Architecture Summer Program, Fontainebleau, France.

 

2005 - 2006

Aksamija, Azra, Harold and Arlene Schitzer Prize in the Visual Arts, MIT Council for the Arts

Allais, Lucia (2), travel grant, Kelly-Douglas Fund for Humanistic Study, MIT; Krupp Foundation Fellowship 2006-2007, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Ferng, Jennifer, Student Life Grant in support of the “research in progress” series of Spring 2006, Graduate Student's Office, MIT

Haughey, Patrick (2), Research Grant, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association; Research Grant, Gerald R. Ford Foundation

Karimi, Z. Pamela (5), Graduate Student Travel Grant April 2006, Historians of Islamic Art; Andrew W. Mellon International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship 2006-07, The Social Science Research Council; International Fellowship July 2006-June 2007, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (AAUW); Research Fellowship Program 2006, Presbyterian Historical Society; Research Grant Fall 2006, Harry S. Truman Library Institute

Kroiz, Lauren, ACLS Dissertation Fellowship, Henry Luce Foundation

Muzzafar, Ijlal, Merit Citation, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Osman, Michael, Dissertation Grant 2006-2007 in Social & Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation

Razan, Francis, Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship, College of Architecture, Art & Planning, Cornell University

Wheeler, Katherine (2), Research Fellowship, Renaissance Society of America; Scott Opler Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historian

Wong, Winnie Won Yin, Pre-Dissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration, The Social Science Research Council

SMArchS Program
Arkaraprasertkul, Non (3),

  • Fulbright Scholarship, 2005-2007, Thailand-United States Educational Foundation;
  • Asian Cultural Council Traveling Fellowship and a Starr Foundation Fellowship, both from the Asian Cultural Council, New York

Capdevila Werning, Remei (2),

  • La Caixa Fellowship 2005-2007, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona;
  • Research internship at the Ludwigs-Maximilian's Universiät München. Summer 2006 MIT-Germany Program.

Liss, Alyson J., Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship, College of Architecture, Art & Planning, Cornell University

Minosh, Peter, Research Internship Laboratoire Les Métiers de l'Histoire de l'Architecture, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble