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Each year, CAA awards travel and support grants for scholars to attend the Annual Conference, funded by foundations and individual donors. We were thrilled to have so many grantees join us in NYC this past February for the CAA 113th Annual Conference!  

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CAA Edwards Memorial Support Grantees

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The CAA Edwards Memorial Support Grants, in memory of Archibald Cason Edwards Sr. and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards and made possible by Mary D. Edwards, supports emerging scholars and have received their PhD within the past two years or who are nearing the end of a doctoral program.  

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	Alev Berberoğlu, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Presentation: “Ottoman Quest for Women in Photography: The Case of Elisa Zonaro (1863–1945)” Session: Women and the Global Historiography of Photography, 1840-1940
	Adrienn Kácsor, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Presentation: “Fugitive Avant-garde” Session: Explosive Objects: Material Histories of Violence in Europe, 1920s–1940s

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation CAA Annual Conference Travel Fellows

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Recognizing the value of the exchange of ideas and experience among art historians, the Kress Foundation offers travel grants for scholars presenting on European art before 1830.   

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	Maria Berbara, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Presentation: “Nature and Culture in Cartographic Representations of Extractivist Practices in Brazil” Session: Brazilian Landscapes: Representing Nature, Culture, and Otherness in Brazil from Early Modernity to the Present
	Grazia Maria Fachechi, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo Presentation: “From Urbino to the Vatican City and back: the Library of Federico da Montefeltro, as it was, where it was” Session: Design and Decoration of Libraries
	Or Vallah Gabaev, University of Regina Presentation: “Hendrick Goltzius: Traveling to Italy, Masquerading, and Revealing Identity” Session: Body As Surface
	Paul Guhennec, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Presentation: “The Late Renaissance Venetian Palace Façades: A Computational Eye on the Dialectic of ‘Mediocritas’ and ‘Novitas’” Session: New Technologies and the Re-visualization of Italian Renaissance Art
	Lucila Iglesias, Universidad de Buenos Aires Presentation: “Sacralizing the Collapse. The Birth of the Franciscan Cult to Our Lady of Miracle after the 1650 Earthquake” Session: Natural Disasters and Artistic Innovation in Colonial Peru, 1650-1700
	Kamil Kopania, The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw Presentation: “The Medieval Origins of the Polish Szopka” Session: The Visual Culture of Festivals in Germany, Scandinavia, and Central Europe
	Luba Kozak, University of Washington Presentation: “Bridging Relationships: Pet Animals as Connectors in Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture” Session: Gender, Class, and Empire: Women’s Roles and the Representation of Animals in 18th and 19th c. Art
	Léon Rochard, Université de Poitiers Presentation: “Cleanliness, dirtiness, and the contamination of genders in Seventeenth-century Netherlandish Painting” Session: Gender, Sexuality, and Non-Pristine Nature in Northern European Art and Material Culture, ca. 1350–1750
	Laura Stefanescu, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies “Transmedial Migrations in Neri di Bicci’s Laboratory of Materiality” Session: Artists and their Objects: The Material World of the Early Modern Artist Inventories

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Terra Foundation Travel Grants for Underrepresented Scholars of American Art

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The Terra Foundation for American Art offered a limited number of conference travel grants for scholars of American art who have historically been underrepresented at CAA conferences to attend the CAA 113th Annual Conference. This travel support encouraged participation by those whose work contributes meaningfully to expanding and transforming understanding of American art narratives, practices, and presentations.  

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	Jennifer Bowen, PhD Student, University of Victoria
	Rachel Burke, PhD Student, Harvard University
	Brianne Chapelle, MA student, Hunter College, City University of New York
	Ivana Dizdar, PhD candidate, University of Toronto
	Hannah Forsythe, PhD Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
	Madison Garay, MA Student, University of New Mexico
	Nancy Hart, Independent Scholar
	Elnaz Javani, Professor, Colorado State University
	Benjamin L. Jones, Provost’s Fellow and Assistant Professor in the History of Art, The Ohio State University
	Sarah E. Kleinman, PhD Student, Virginia Commonwealth University
	Jacquelyn Delin McDonald, Lecturer University of Texas at Dallas
	Darleen Martinez, Independent Artist
	Cyle Metzger, Assistant Professor, Bradley University
	Nancy Marie Mithlo, Associate Professor, University of California Los Angeles
	Shane Morrissy, PhD Candidate, Duke University
	Aaron Samuel Mulenga, PhD candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
	Brandee M. Newkirk, PhD candidate, Duke University
	Hyeongjin Oh, Professor, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
	Emma Oslé, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University
	Louis Shankar, PhD Student, University College London
	Scott Singeisen, Associate Professor, North Carolina Central University
	Sienna Weldon, Curatorial Assistant, California State Parks, and Lecturer, Sacramento, California
	Luke Williams, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
	Seonaid Valiant, Associate Curator for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University
	Jacob Zhicheng Zhang, PhD Student, University of Toronto