Drawn to Art Fellowship

The "Drawn to Art" Fellowship supports research on American art, visual culture, or other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources. Funds have been provided by Diana Korzenik, a painter, author, and historian of art education.

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2025-26 Ultan Byrne Columbia University PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation State in Formation: The Architecture of the US Treasury and the Office of the Supervising Architect, 1852-1939
2024-25 Jason Shaffer United States Naval Academy Professor of English Johnston's The Heavenly Nine and Jacksonian Performance Culture
2023-24 Megan Baker University of Delaware PhD Candidate in Art History Pastel Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814
2022-23 Cambra Sklarz University of California, Riverside PhD Candidate in Art History The Artist and the Ecosystem: Strategies for the Use and Reuse of Materials in Early America
2020-21 Alice Walkiewicz CUNY Graduate Center PhD Candidate in Art History Fabricating Clothing and Myth in the American Gilded Age
2019-20 Corinne Field University of Virginia Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Age, Race, and Power in the U.S. Women’s Rights Movement, 1870-1920
2018-19 Tanya Pohrt Lyman Allyn Art Museum Project Curator Mary Way and Elizabeth Way Champlain: Miniaturists of the Early Republic
2017-18 Katherine Harnish Washington University in St. Louis PhD Candidate Painting Ephemera in the Age of Mass Production
2016-17 Jennifer Chuong Harvard University PhD Candidate Marbling and Projection in Early American Bindings
2015-16 Elizabeth Eager Harvard University PhD Candidate Drawing Machines: The Mechanics of Art in the Early Republic
2014-15 Katherine Miller University of Virginia PhD Candidate in Art and Architectural History The Office of the Supervising Architect's Experiments with Architectural Representation: Prints & Photographs
2013-14 Lauren Klein Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Professor A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786-2013
2012-13 Melanie Hernandez University of Washington, Seattle PhD Candidate Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire
2011-12 Joshua Brown CUNY Graduate Center Executive Director Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War
2010-11 Mary Bryan Curd Harrison Middleton University Tutor Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850
2009-10 Gian Iachini University of Milan Teaching Assistant 'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution
2008-09 Laura Smith University of New Hampshire Lecturer "Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'."
2007-08 Maura D'Amore University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD Candidate "Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America"
2005-06 Ross Barrett Boston University PhD Candidate Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Class Conflict in 19th-Century American Art and Visual Culture
2004-05 Kathleen Lawrence Boston University Lecturer "Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism"
2003-04 Christopher Lukasik Boston University Assistant Professor Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850
2002-03 Janet Headley Loyola College Associate Professor Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897
2001-02 April Masten Visiting Assistant Professor The Work of Art
2000-01 Sarah Roth University of Virginia PhD Candidate The Slavery Controversy in Antebellum Popular Culture