Past IAS Travel Grant Winners

2019

Sarah Mellott Cadagin (Assistant Professor, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Domenico Ghirlandaio’s High Altarpiece for Santa Maria Novella and the Pre-Tridentine Audience of Italian Altarpieces,” in the session “More than Merely Passive: Addressing Early Modern Audiences I: Image and Audience” at the Renaissance Society of America Meeting in Toronto in 2019.

Daria Rose Foner (PhD Candidate, Columbia University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Andrea del Sarto as Artistic Collaborator” in the session “Beyond the Singular Artist: A Critical Assessment of Collaboration, c. 1400-1700” at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Meeting in Toronto in 2019.

Francesca Pietropaolo (Independent Scholar) received the IAS International Conference Grant for Modern Topics to support travel to present her paper titled “A Provocative Way of Re-imagining the Notion of Mutable Monument Today: Alterazioni Video’s Incompiuto” in the session “Of Mutable Monuments and Changing Attitudes: Learning from the Long History of Altering, Appropriating, and Recontextualizing Italian Art” at the College Art Association (CAA) annual conference in New York in 2019.

2018

Dario Donetti (Italian Academy, Columbia University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present his paper titled “Inventing the New St. Peter’s: Drawing and Emulation in Renaissance Architecture at the College Art Association Meeting (CAA) in Los Angeles in 2008. 

Elizabeth Kassler-Taub (Case Western Reserve University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Architectural Traffic between Sicily and North Africa” at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) meeting in New Orleans in 2018.  

2017

Rachel Boyd (PhD candidate, Columbia University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Andrea della Robbia’s Bambini and Their Progeny: Glazed Terracotta Sculpture for Tuscan Hospitals” at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) meeting in Chicago in 2017.

Katerina Harris (PhD candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Italian Renaissance Effigies Neither Dead Nor Alive” at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) meeting in Chicago in 2017.

2016

Tenley Bick (PhD candidate, UCLA) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Anachronic Casts: Giulio Paolini’s Plaster Sculptures in the Years of Lead, 1968-1982,” at the annual meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) in Baton Rouge, LA in 2016.

Angelica Federici (Cambridge University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant to support travel to present her paper titled “Female Religious Patronage in Late Medieval Rome ca. 1200-1400,” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in Kalamazoo MI in 2016.

Kristin deGhetaldi (University of Delaware) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant to support travel to present her paper titled “Tracing the Evolution of Oil Painting in Renaissance Italy: Previous Assumptions and New Approaches,” at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in Boston in 2016.

Angelika Schnell (Professor, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna) received the first IAS International Conference Grant for Modern Topics in the amount of $1000.00 to support travel to present her paper titled “Paolo Portoghesi’s and Aldo Rossi’s Visual Historiographies of Italian Architecture” at the annual meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) in Baton Rouge, LA, in 2016.

2015

Jennifer Griffiths (Iowa State University College of Design, Rome and American Academy in Rome) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled Savage Beauty: A Futurist Legacy of Self-Design” at the 103rd College Art Association Annual Conference (CAA) in New York in 2015.

Andaleeb Banta (Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled Simultaneous Vision in Oberlin’s ‘Holy Family over Verona,’” at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in Berlin in 2015.

2014

Francesca Borgo, (PhD candidate, Harvard University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “The Beast Within, the Beast Without: Animality and Hybridity in Early Modern Armor Ornamentation,” at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in New York in 2014.

Kristen Streahle (PhD candidate, Cornell University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “TABIMUROLLI MUIDEM REP: PseudoKufic, Retrograde Latin, and the Crusades Remembered on the Chiaramonte Steri Ceiling,” at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in Kalamazoo, in 2014.

2013

Joanne Anderson (Visiting Lecturer, University of Warwick) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Coloring the Magdalene in the Early Renaissance,” 59th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in San Diegoin 2013.

Valentina Pugliano (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “‘Subjects which painting may serve’: How Botany met Renaissance Art,” at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in San Diego in 2013.

2012

Karen Lloyd (Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “A New Samson, Scipione Borghese and the Representation of Nepotism in the Vatican Palace,” at the 100th College Art Association Annual Meeting (CAA) in Los Angeles in 2012.

Kristin Huffman Lanzoni (Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Ducal Fraternity and Family Glory: Girolamo and Lorenzo Priuli”in Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in Washington, D.C. in 2012.

2011

Jasmine Cloud (PhD candidate, Temple University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Reviving the Heart (of the City): The Renovations of the Churches on the Roman Forum,” at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (RSA) in Montreal in 2011.

Rebekah Perry (PhD candidate, University of Pittsburgh) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Civic Landscape, Sacred Journey:  Tivoli’s Savior Triptych and the August Procession of the ‘Inchinata,’” at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in Kalamazoo in 2011.

2010

Zoë Willis (PhD candidate, University of Warwick) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Of Saints and Empire: Venice, Hungary and Dalmatian Zadar 1350-1450,” at the 98th College Art Association Annual Meeting (CAA) in Chicago in 2010.

Jessica Richardson (Postdoctoral Research Associate, CASVA, National Gallery of Art) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Pilgrims, Prisoners and Holy Liberations: The North Portal of San Leonardo in Lama Volara (Apulia) and the Cult of Saint Leonard of Noblat in Twelfth-Century Italy,” at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in Kalamazoo in 2010.

2009

Andrew Casper (Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University of Ohio) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present his paper titled “The ‘Greek Style’ in Italian Art and Theory of the Sixteenth Century,” at the 97th College Art Association Annual Meeting (CAA) in Los Angeles in 2009

Christopher Lakey (PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present his paper titled “Practical and Theoretical Geometry in Medieval Art,”at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in Kalamazoo in 2009

2008

Alexandra Hoare (PhD candidate, University of Toronto) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Fortitude, Fortune and Fame:  The Celebration and Commemoration of Male Friendship in Two Works by Salvator Rosa,” at the 96th College Art Association Annual Meeting (CAA) in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2008

Meredith Fluke (PhD candidate, Columbia University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Religious Rebuilding and Liturgical Reform in Twelfth-century Verona,” at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in Kalamazoo in 2008.

2007

Ittai Weinryb (PhD candidate, Johns Hopkins University) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present his paper titled “Present Progressive: Techniques for Meaning at San Zeno in Verona,” at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in Kalamazoo in 2007.

2006

Ashley Elston (PhD candidate, University of Kansas, Lawrence) received an IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars to support travel to present her paper titled “Storing Sanctity: The Function and Iconography of Tuscan Painted Reliquary Cupboards,” at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in Kalamazoo in 2006.

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