Research

Student Awards

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.

2004-2005

administered within the Department of Architecture

The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Azra Aksamija
Z. Pamela Karimi

Avalon Travel Grants

Lucia Allais
Jennifer Ferng

CCA-HTC Collection Research Fellowship

Michael Osman, August 2005
Tijana Vujosevic, June-August 2005

Henry Luce Foundation Research Fellowship

Lucia Allais
Patrick Haughey
Lauren Kroiz
Michael Osman

Hyzen Travel Grants

Jennifer Ferng
Z. Pamela Karimi
Fabiola Lopez-Duran
Mechtild Widrich

Kristen Ellen Finnegan Memorial Award

Lauren Kroiz, 2004-2005
Deborah Kully, 2003-2004
Melanie Michaildis, 2003-2004

Rosemary D. Grimshaw Award

Nicole Vlado (MArch)

Graduate Student's Office, Student Life Grant

Jennifer Ferng: in support of the reserach in progress series--an interdepartmental series of dialogues, Spring 2005.

Kelly-Douglas Award

Z. Pamela Karimi, Januaary 2005

Public Service Center (PSC), Community Service Grant

Z. Pamel Karimi: in support of the HTC Film Series, February 2005

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Michalidis, Melanie: 2005-2007 Ittleson Predoctoral Fellowship
Çelik, Zeynep: 2005-2008 Paul Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship

Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Talinn Grigor: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-06

Cultural Service of the French Embassy in the US

Deborah Kully: 2005-2006 Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship

George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Patrick Haughey: Peter and Edith O'Donnell Grant for Presidential Studies

Harvard Art Museums

Kirsten Weiss: 2005 Baird Travel Fellowship

Harvard Center for European Studies

Florian Urban: 2005 Travel Grant, (Summer)

Institute for Historical Research

Kathy Wheeler Borum: Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-06

La Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique (SPFFA)

Deborah Kully: 2005-2006 Bourse Marandon Fellowship

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berline, Germany

Çelik, Zeynep: 2005-2006 Fellow

Transatlantic Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York, Technical University of Berlin

Florian Urban: 2005 Doctoral Fellowship, sponsored by Federal German Research Association

 

2003-2004

The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Z. Pamela Karimi

CCA-HTC Collection Research Fellowship

Jennifer Ferng, June 2004
Fabiola Lopez-Duran July 2004
Lauren Kroiz August 2004
Juliana Maxim, January 2005

Henry Luce Foundation Research Fellowship

Lauren Kroiz

Hyzen Fellowship

Zeynep Çelik, Fall 2004
Melanie Michailidis, Fall 2004

Hyzen Travel Grants

Lucia Allais
Michael Osman

Schlossman Research Award

Mechtild Widrich

Council for the Arts Director's Grant for April 2004

Z. Pamela Karimi

Kelly-Douglas Award

Janna Israel
Deborah Kully and Michael Osman, both Ph.D. candidates, in support of the HTC Forum, Fall 2003.

American Academy in Rome

Janna Israel, Rome Prize Fellowship in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Sept. 2004-June 2006

American Association of University Women

Michele Lamprakos, American Predoctoral Fellowship

Barakat Foundation

Glaire D. Anderson, Fellowship
Michele Lamprakos, Fellowship
Melanie Michailidis, Fellowship

College Art Association

Glaire D. Anderson, Professional Development Fellowship for Art History for 2004-2006

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst):
German Academic Exchange Service

Zeynep Çelik, Fellowship

Dedalus Foundation

Zeynep Çelik, Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship 2004-2005

Delmas Foundation Grant

Janna Israel, Venice, May 2004-Sept. 2005.

Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship

Mechtild Widrich, 2003

Fulbright IIE

Melanie Michailidis, Fieldwork Grant, January-June 2004

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Michele Lamprakos, Trustees Merit Citation
Deborah Kully and Michael Osman, Program Award in support of the HTC Forum, Spring 2004- Fall 2004, theme: After the Cold War.

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Katherine Wheeler Borum, Junior Fellowship

Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, Nashville, TN

Talinn Grigor, Graduate Fellowship for Persian Studies 2003-2005

Social Science Research Council

Zeynep Çelik, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship

Victorian Society in America

Katherine Wheeler Borum, scholarship

 

2002-2003

The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Lauren Kroiz
Melanie Michailidis

Hyzen Travel Grants

Zeynep Çelik
Deborah Kully
Melanie Michailidis
Florian Urban
Kirsten Weiss

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Talinn Grigor, Ittleson Predoctoral Fellowship 2003-2005

Fulbright Scholarship

Mechtild Widrich, 2003-2004

Harvard University Art Museums

Kirsten Weiss, 2003-2005 Michalke Curatorial Fellow, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Social Science Research Center

Maha Yahya, 2002-2003 International Collaborative Research Grants Competition: "Reconceptulizing Public Spheres in the Middle East and North Africa," award period July 2003—December 2004, one of three project collaborators, "Icons, Images and Ideologies of Religion and Nation: Secularism, Religious Natiolism amd the Public Sphere in Comparative Perspective"

Research Foundation of the Berlin Parliament (Studienstiftung des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses)

Florian Urban, Research Grant 2003-2004

 

2001-2002

The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Sarah Rogers
Leonardo Diaz-Borioli, SMArchS candidate

Avalon Travel Grant

Michele Lamprakos
Kirsten Weiss

Henry Luce Foundation

Diana Ramirez-Jasso, Research Fellowship

Schlossman Research Award

Ijlal Muzaffar

American Embassy (Berlin), Checkpoint Charlie Shiftung, Shiftung Luftbruckendank, Senat Verwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, Landesdekmalampt Berlin, Senatkanselei (from the Mayor's office of Berlin), KLKWV Fund, Goethe Institute (New York, for a follow-up exhibition in New York), DAAD, and MIT's Department of Architecture

Leonard Diaz-Borioli (SMArchS candidate), Scholarship to Attend Conference
Florian Urban, Scholarship to Attend Conference

SMArchS Prize

Diana Ramirez Jasso (SMArchS candidate), 2001-2002
Winnie Wong, (SMArchS candidate), 2001-2002

Council for the Arts Grants Program

Zeynep Çelik

American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS)

Talinn Gregor, Pre-doctoral Language Fellowship, 2003

College Art Association

Talinn Grigor, Travel Grant

Society of Architectural Historians

Glaire D. Anderson, 2002 de Montequin Jr. Fellow, Edilia & Francoise de Montequin Award

The Getty Center

Tom Beischer, Library Research Grant

Historian of Islamic Art

Glaire D. Anderson, Fellow 2002-2003
Talinn Grigor, Fellow 2002-2003

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Glaire D. Anderson, 2002 Kress Fellow, Travel Grant for Research in the History of Art

Iranian Association of Boston

Talinn Grigor, Scholarship 2003

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Kirsten Weiss, Pre-dissertation Fellowship

Preservation Society of Newport County Award

Leonardo Diaz-Borioli (SMArchS candidate)

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, The Sandberg Prize

 

2000-2001

Aga Khan Travel Grant

Glaire D. Anderson

Hyzen Fellowship

Erdem Erten

Hyzen Travel Grant

Erdem Erten
Janna Israel
Ijlal Muzaffar
Katherine Wheeler-Borum

Kristen Ellen Finnegan Award

Emily Gephart

Schlossman Research Award

Glaire D. Anderson

Laboratory for Energy and the Environment

Brooke Wortham, Martin Fellowship, 2001-2002, Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Juliana Maxim (with Prof. Mark Jarzombek), Graham Foundation Grant, 2000, for "East European Art and Architecture in the Twentieth Century International Conference."

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Juliana Maxim, 2001 Kress Fellow,Travel Grant for Research in the History of Art

Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL

Adnan Morshed, Visiting Fellow, 2002

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Adnan Morshed, Wyeth Fellowship 2001-2003

 

1999-2000

The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Panayiota Pyla

Hyzen Travel Grant

Fernando Alvarez
Ann Vollmann Bible
Talinn Grigor
Janna Israel
Juliana Maxim

Society of Architectural Historians

Fernando Alvarez, 2000 de Montequin Jr. Fellow, Edilia & Francoise de Montequin Award

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts,
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Mary Davis Predoctoral Fellowship 2000-2002

Middle Eastern Studies Association

Shirine Hamadeh, Malcolm Kerr Award for the Best Dissertation in the Humanities

Woodrow Wilson Post-doctoral Fellowship

Ritu Bhatt

 

1998-1999

The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Talinn Grigor
Panayiota Pyla
Lara Tohme

Hyzen Travel Grant

Tom Beischer
Ann Vollmann Bible
Robert Cowherd
Jim O'Brien

Schlossman Research Award

Juliana Maxim

New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NESAH)

Fernando Alvarez, John Coolidge Student Fellowship

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts,
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Carla Keyvanian, Paul Mellon Fellowship 1999-2002
Annie Pedret, Chester Dale Fellowship 1999-2000

Dumbarton Oaks

Shirine Hamadeh, Fellowship

Fulbright Grant

Robert Cowherd

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Panayiota Pyla Travel Grant for research to be done at ARCE
Lara Tohme, Travel Grant for research to be done at American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR)

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Ritu Bhatt, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Award for three years

 

1997-1998

ABD Funding Award

Carla Keyvanian
Hadas Steiner

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship

Sarah Whiting

Hyzen Travel Grant

Adnan Morshed
Claudio Pereira

Schlossman Research Award

Hadas Steiner

Dean of Education

Ritu Bhatt, Henry Bromfield Rogers Fellowship

College Art Association

Panayiota Pyla, Travel Grant

Dibner Institute

Ed Eigen, Graduate Student Fellow, 1998-1999

Fulbright Fellowship

Brian McLaren

Gerondelis Foundation

Irene Fatsea, Graduate Scholarship Grant

The Getty Center

Juliet Koss, grant

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

Hadas Steiner, Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship

New England Society of Architectural Historians

Tom Beischer, Travel Award

New York University

Maha Yahya, Rockfeller Humanities Post-doctorate Fellowship

 

1996-1997

The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Lara Tohme

Royal Fund Award

Annie Pedret

Schlossman Research Award

Juliet Koss

American Association of University Women

Juliet Koss, American Predoctoral Fellow

Historians of Islamic Art (HIA)

Shirine Hamadeh, Graduate Student Travel Grant

American Research Institute in Turkey

Shirine Hamadeh, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellow

American University in Beruit

Maha Yahya, Mellon Post Doctorate Fellowship

 

1994-1995

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst):
German Academic Exchange Service

Kristen Finnegan, Travel Schloarship 1995-1996

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

Alona Nitzen-Shiftan, bronze medal prize for the best essay of the year contest

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Annie Pedret, Doctoral Fellowship

 

1993-1994

The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Brian McLaren

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

Sean Scensor (S.M.Arch.S. candidate), Scholarship 1994-1995

Society of Architectural Historians

Kristen Finnegan, Domestic Tour Scholarship, October 1994

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Brian McLaren, Doctoral Fellowship, 1994-1995