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Faculty Awards

Major Awards and Fellowships, 2000 to Present

S. Hollis Clayson

• Millard Meiss Award (publication subvention), College Art Association, 2001
• Fellow, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, fall 2003
• Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, spring 2004
• Named Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, 2006
• Fellow, Clark Art Institute, Research and Academic Program, Williamstown, Massachusetts, fall 2009
• Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2009-10 (declined)
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Frank Hideo Kono Fellow, The Huntington, San Marino, California, January - February 2010
• Fellow, Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Columbia University, Paris, spring 2010
• Residency Fellow, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, January - May 2010 (declined)
• Fellow, Research School of Humanities, Australian National University, Canberra, August - September 2010
• Named a Member of the International Advisory Board, Art History, 2010 -
• Named a Consulting Editor, International Literary Quarterly, 2009 -

Huey Copeland

• W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship, 2011
• Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, 2009
• Georgia O'Keefe Museum Research Center for American Modernism Scholarship, 2008
• Alice Berline Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Junior Fellowship, 2007
• Terra Foundation for American Art Academic Program Grant, 2007
• Northwestern University Weinberg Fellowship, 2004
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2003
• University of California Chancellor's Opportunity Fellowship, 2001
• University of California, Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2001

Stephen Eisenman

• Mellon Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2001-02

Jesús Escobar

• Summer Research Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010
• Fulbright U.S. Senior Researcher, Spain, 2004-05
• Eleanor Tufts Award for The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid, American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies, 2004

Hannah Feldman

• Northwestern University, Faculty Honor Roll Award, 2011
• Fellow, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 2010-2011
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Getty Research Institute, 2008-2009
• Member, Art Journal Editorial Board, 2006-2010; Chair, 2008-2010
• Lead Author and Principal Investigator, Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program: "Direct Contact with the Muslim World," 2006
• Fellow, Samuel H. Kress Foundation (Paris), 2000-2002

Sarah E. Fraser

• Principal Investigator and Director, Joint Archaeological Research Grant, China, Henry Luce Foundation, 1998-2002
• Directrice d'Études, Collège de France, 2000
• Principal Investigator, Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1999-2003
• Millard Meiss Award (publication subvention), College Art Association, 2002
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 2003-2004
• Outstanding Academic Book Award (for Performing the Visual, Stanford Press), Choice, American Library Association, 2004
• Humanities Cyberinfrastructure Commission, American Council of the Humanities, 2004-2006
• Editorial Board Member, Art Bulletin, College Art Association, 2005-2009
• Co-Researcher, Ethnic Identity and Material Culture, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan, 2007-2010
• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant, Fulbright Commission, 2007-2008
• Fellow, School of Urban Planning and Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai, 2007-2008
• Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2007-2008
• Frederick Burkhardt Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2007-2008
• Getty Scholar, The Getty Research Institute, 2007-2008
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 2009-2010
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Research Topic: Ethnic Architectural Parks in Kham (Northeastern Sichuan), 2008-2011

Christina Kiaer

• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Fellowship as Member of the School of Historical Studies, 2011-2012
• Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery, Washington, DC. Senior Fellowship awarded for 2011-2012 (declined)
• National Humanities Center, Durham, NC. Fellowship awarded for 2011-2012 (declined)
• Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Clark Fellowship awarded for Spring 2012 (declined)
• The American Academy in Berlin. Berlin Prize Fellowship awarded for 2011-2012 (declined)
• American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, calendar year 2007
• Honorable Mention, the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize, 2006, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), for her book Imagine No Possessions.
• Social Science Research Council Eurasia Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2004
• Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Clark Fellowship awarded for Spring 2002 (Declined)
• The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in Art History, 2001-2002
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Individual Advanced Research Grant to the Russian Federation (Moscow), September 2001 - January 2002
• Pepsico Travel Fellowship, awarded by The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2001
• The Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award, Columbia University, 2001. Awarded to junior faculty who have distinguished themselves as teachers and who demonstrate serious scholarly potential.

Claudia Swan

• Recipient, Fellowship, Descartes Center for the History of Science, Spring 2012
• Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Wassenaar NL, 2010-2011
• Recipient, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 2011
• Faculty Honor Roll, Northwestern University, 2007
• Millard Meiss Publication Award 2005
• Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2002
• Millard Meiss Award (publication subvention), College Art Association, 2002

Krista Thompson

• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2012-2013
• David C. Driskell Prize, which honors and celebrates contributions to the field of African American art and art history, High Museum, Atlanda, Georgia, 2009
• Getty Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009
• Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Illinois, Chicago, Fall 2004
• David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park, 2003 - 2004
• The Endowment for the Performing Arts Grant (Bahamas), 2008

David Van Zanten

• Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1995
• Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001-02
• Driehaus Foundation, Publication subvention for Marion Mahony Griffin Reconsidered, ed. David van Zanten (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
• Named Director d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, February 2008
• French Consular Services, Grant in support of visit to Northwestern by Jean-Louis Cohen and Yamina Benguigui (December 2008), and of Christian Topalov and Isabelle Backouche (May 2009)
• Research Fellow, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, June 2006