The Wolfsonian–FIU Fellowship program promotes scholarly research on The Wolfsonian’s collections. Since its inception in 1995, the program has supported projects from a wide range of academic fields. Proposals on any theme in the humanities that can be supported by the museum’s collections are welcome.
Fellowships are awarded for full-time research at The Wolfsonian, generally for periods of three to five weeks. Fellowships include a stipend, accommodations, and round-trip travel. The timing of dates will be negotiated with individual awardees. As a rule, The Wolfsonian prefers to host fellows from September through June.
The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and to others who have a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields. Scholars from outside of the United States are eligible. Fellowships are awarded without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
Applications are available upon request from the Fellowship Coordinator (research@thewolf.fiu.edu; 305.535.2613); they may also be downloaded. The application deadline is December 31, for residency beginning no earlier than July 1 of the following year. Applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their project with the Fellowship Coordinator prior to submitting proposals.
Past Wolfsonian Fellows
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
John Bowlt Research Topic - The Russian Decorative Arts: The Russian Silver Age (1881-1914)
Erika Doss Research Topic - Work, Workers, and the Work Ethic in American Art, 1930-1945
Claudio Fogu research Topic - The Historic in the Making: Fascism and the Representation of History
Shelley Nickles Research Topic - Object Lessons: Designing Household Appliances, 1920-1960
Fedja Vukic Research Topic - Italian Advertising 1909-1939
Marla Stone Research Topic - Hegemonic Pluralism: Art and Politics in Fascist Italy
Alan Crawford Research Topic - The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain
Eric Dluhosch Research Topic - The Czech Avant-Garde Between East and West, or Modernism Revisited (1890s to 1945)
Marcia Vetrocq Research Topic - Designing European Modernism: Enrico Prampolini and the International Avant-Garde
Thomas Row (Wolfson Foundation Scholar) Research Topic - Italian Propaganda in the First World War
Dinah Guimaraens Cavalcanti Research Topic - Symbols of Power in America During the Second World War
Jean-François Lejeune Research Topic - From Sabaudia Metafisica to Guidonia Citta Futurista
Brian McLaren Research Topic - The Image of the Mediterranean in "Material Culture" and the Italian Colonies in Africa in the 1930s
Joan Saab Research Topic - Envisioning Democracity: Art and Politics in 1930s New York
Paul Stirton Research Topic - Racial Rivalry: Aryans, Celts and Slavs in European Racial Theory and Material Culture, 1900-1939
Timothy Benson Research Topic - The Central European Avant-Garde: Exchange and Transformation
Beverly Grindstaff Research Topic - Hellerau, the Deutsche Werkstätten, and the German Hygiene Movement
Wesley Henderson Research Topic - The Meaning of the Depiction of Minorities in Art Deco Architecture, Specifically Imagery Associated with World's Fairs and WPA Murals
Roy MacLeod Research Topic - The Great War and Modern Science
John Stuart Research Topic - Envisioning Technological Internationalism: Paul Scheerbart and German Design Innovations 1900-1914
Dickran Tashjian Research Topic - Cultural Production in the United States During World War II
James Wechsler Research Topic - Embracing the Specter of Communism: The Art and Activism of Hugo Gellert, 1915-1945
Mia Fuller Research Topic - The Limits of Colonial Architecture: Italian Building and Planning in Eritrea and the Dodecanese Islands, 1885-1940
Patricia Kirkham Research Topic - Women, Design and Crafts in the USA 1876-1939, with Special Reference to State, National and International Exhibitions
Alston Purvis Research Topic - The Impact of Nieuwe Kunst on the Development of Modern Dutch Graphic Design
Sherwin Simmons Research Topic - German Posters 1900-1920: The Relationship of Art, Politics and Mass Culture
Karel Srp Research Topic - The American Line: Karel Teige and the United States of America
Adnan Zillur Morshed Research Topic - The Aesthetics of Aerial Vision: Normal Bel Geddes Futurama
Michelle Paluch-Mishur Research Topic - The Mutable Perspectives of Flight: Futurist Aeropittura
Luisa Quartermaine Research Topic - Warfare, Policy, and Propaganda in the Republic of Salo
Peter Quartermaine Research Topic - Maritime Design and Publicity 1927-1939
Gray Read Drama of the Street: Urban Architecture and Modernism in Paris, 1920-1935
Gregory Maertz The Invisible Museum: The Secret Postwar History of Nazi Art
Alice Friedman The New York World's Fair of 1939-40: Design at the Crossroads of Modernism
Medina Lasansky Mediating the Image of Tuscan Vernacular Architecture: The Racist Rhetoric of the Fascist Regime
Cheryl Robertson Truth, Beauty, and Power: Christopher Dresser and the Invention of Industrial Design
Jennifer Hirsh Fashion, Fascism and the Bella Figura: Women and Costume in Italy, 1922-1943
Marjan Groot, Junior Lecturer, Art History, University of Leiden Ornament and Meaning: Animal Iconography in Dutch Decorative Arts, 1890-1940
Graham Barnfield, Lecturer, Cultural and Innovative Studies, University of East London Making New Immigrants into New Dealers: Documentary Representation and National Identity
Maria Elena Versari, Doctoral Candidate, Art History, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa The "Fascist-Futurist" Object: Decorative Avant-Garde or Modernist Propaganda?
Susan R. Henderson, Associate Professor, Architecture, Syracuse University Politics and Utopia in the Artists' Colonies of Northern Europe at the Turn of the Century
Edward Wolner, Associate Professor, Architecture, Ball State University Skyscraper Romances Between the Great War and the Depression: Furniture Design and Promotional Materials for World Fairs, Railroads and Ocean Liner Companies
Jeffrey Schnapp, Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, Director, Stanford University Laboratory Revolutionary Tides
Virginia Gardner Troy, Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, Berry College The Modernist Textile: Europe and America, 1890-1940
Helen Dudley, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, Emory University Competing Regionalisms: Construction of the Folk in Italian Fascist Material Culture
Willard Bohn, Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University The Poetics of Flight: Futurist "Aeropoesia"
Joshua Arthurs, Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Chicago Roman Modernities: Archaeology and Romanità in Italy, 1911-1961
Christina Cogdell, Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies, California State University, Fullerton Designing Humans: Hygiene and the Aesthetics of the Body at U.S. World's Fairs of the 1930s
Nancy Green, Senior Curator, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Project title: Shared Dreams: Collaborative Partnerships of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Kimberly Hyde, Director, Old Stone Archives (Cleveland, Ohio) Project title: Louis C. Tiffany and the Business of Art
Michelangelo Sabatino, Assistant Professor, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston Project title: "Primitivism" and Italian Modernism: Ethnography, Stile Liberty, and Futurism
Danielle Schwartz, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Art History and Communications, McGill University Project title: Making Shape of Sight and Sound: The Design of Radio and Television in North America, 1920-1939
Gwendolyn Wright, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Project title: A Cultural History of Modern Architecture in the United States
Jessica Glaser, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh Project title: The Pre-War Roots of Socialist Modernism in East Germany
Stephanie Hom Cary, Doctoral Candidate, Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley Project title: Destination Italy: Tourism, Colonialism, and the Modern Italian Nation-State, 1890-1947
Matthew Stanard, Future Faculty Teaching Fellow, History, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Project title: European Imperial Propaganda and Colonial Culture
Michelle Warren, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College Project title: Creole Medievalism at the Paris World Fairs
Susan Aspinall, Doctoral candidate in History at the University of Warwick Project title: The Physical Culture Movement in Britain and America, 1890-1950: Exercise, Gender and Physiology
Didem Ekici, Doctoral candidate of History and Theory of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture, University of Michigan Project title: Modern Architecture and the Lifestyle Reform in the Garden City of Hellerau
Megan Marie Faller-Brandow, Doctoral candidate in History at Georgetown University Project title: Man, Woman, Artist? Rethinking the Muse in Vienna and Budapest 1900
Victoria Grieve, assistant professor of History at Utah State University Project title: Popular Culture, National Culture: The New Deal Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture
Lucy Maulsby, assistant professor of Architecture at Northeastern university Project title: Case del Fascio: Architecture Between Force and Persuasion
Kari Shepherdson-Scott, Doctoral candidate in Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University Project title: Utopia/Dystopia: The Japanese Image of a Manchurian Ideal