[Chass-gradstudents] Announcing the 2025 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art

Mon Mar 17 16:49:03 PDT 2025

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*American Council of Learned Societies Awards 2025 Luce/ACLS Dissertation
Fellowships in American Art*

*Awards Support Emerging Scholars of American Art with Fellowships
Advancing Doctoral Research and Writing*
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the
2025 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art
<https://www.acls.org/recent-fellows/?_fellow_year=2025&_fellow_program=422>.
The program, which is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, supports
promising emerging scholars as they pursue doctoral research on the history
of the visual arts in the United States, including all faces of Native
American art.

Since 1992, the Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
<https://www.acls.org/programs/luce-acls-dissertation-fellowships-in-american-art/>
have
supported more than 300 scholars of American art—now some of the nation’s
most distinguished college and university faculty, museum curators, and
leaders in the cultural sector.

The awards are designed to promote scholarship that advances and expands
the field of art history, including research that elevates voices,
narratives, and subjects that have been historically underrepresented in
the academy. Each fellow receives $42,000 to support one year of research,
writing, and fellowship-related travel between July 2025 and May 2027.

“The Henry Luce Foundation remains wholeheartedly committed to support for
doctoral education in American art through the dissertation fellowships
administered by our excellent partners at ACLS,” said Teresa Carbone,
Program Director for American Art at the Henry Luce Foundation. “The
Foundation is pleased, each year, to recognize excellence, new thinking,
and new voices in the field, and to provide flexible funding that best
serves the plans and needs of these rising  field leaders.”

This year’s projects explore topics such as the use of plastic in art in
the 1960s and 1970s, the history of dress and disability in the mid-20th
century, and the relationship between the work of Black artisans in the
19th century and abolition.

“Over the last thirty-three years, alumni of this program have helped shape
and transform the evolving field of American art history,” said ACLS
Program Officer Alison Chang. “This year’s fellows show great potential to
impact the field, and we are excited to support them as they chart new
scholarly pathways.”

The 2025 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art are:

   - *Max Bowens*, Harvard University
   *Storing the Self: Art, Data, and Repatriation*

   - *Olivia Comstock*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
   *Allen Fannin: Hand Spinning and Weaving, Nitty-Gritty Needs, and "The
   Black Craftsman Situation"*

   - *Isabel Elson-Enriquez*, City University of New York, The Graduate
   Center
   *Becoming Plastic: Synthetic Materiality in US Art 1965-1975*
   Ellen Holtzman Fellow

   - *Jeannette Martinez*, University of New Mexico
   *Visualities of Belonging: Creating Terruño in Contemporary US Central
   American Art (1990s–Now)*

   - *Taylor Payer*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
   *Crafting Kinship: Abstraction and Native American Women Artists in the
   Twentieth Century*

   - *Hampton Smith*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   *Making against Slavery: Artisanry, Capitalism, and the Material History
   of Abolition in the United States, 1791-1902*

   - *Natalie Wright*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   *Functional Fashions: Dress and Disability in the United States,
   1950-1975*

Meet the new Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art and learn more
about their projects.
<https://www.acls.org/recent-fellows/?_fellow_year=2025&_fellow_program=422>

Formed a century ago, the *American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)*
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is
a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the leading
representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive
social sciences, ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public
good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS expands the forms,
content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our commitment to
diversity of identity and experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions,
associations, and individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for
scholarship.

A leader in arts funding since 1982, the* Henry Luce Foundation’s American
Art Program <https://hluce.org/programs/american-art/>* advances the role
of American art in realizing more vibrant and empathetic communities.
Through support for innovative projects, it empowers institutions to
celebrate creativity, elevate underrepresented voices, challenge accepted
histories, and seek common ground.
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