Doctoral candidate Caitlin Mims received a Fulbright Greece-Turkey Joint Research Award to conduct research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and at Marmara University in Istanbul for the 2023-24 academic year. The award enables Caitlin to study Byzantine amulets that are central to her disseration research in the collections of the Benaki Museum and the Athens Numismatic Museum in Greece and the Haluk Perk Collection, the Rezan Has Museum, and the Istanbul Archeological Museum in Türkiye. “I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to conduct dissertation research in Greece and Türkiye and to represent the United States as a Fulbright Research Award recipient. Many thanks are due to my advisor Lynn Jones, the Department of Art History, and the Office of National Fellowships for their mentorship and support of my project.”

Doctoral candidate Julia Kershaw received a Fulbright Student Award for dissertation research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2023. The award supported Julia's dissertation research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeirov Department of Art History and Criticism, in archives and collections at the Museum of Modern in Rio de Janeiro and the Lygia Clark Cultural Association, and in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói. Julia's advisor Dr. Tenley Bick writes: "I am thrilled with the Fulbright’s recognition of Julia's work to date and dissertation in progress, and of the promise her scholarship holds: to change how we think about one of postwar and contemporary art history’s most important artists, Lygia Clark, and hence broader narratives in our field."

Doctoral student Sonia Dixon received the William Sanders Scarborough Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) for the fall of 2021. Sonia was among the first cohort to receive the Scarborough Fellowship, which supported research for her dissertation on the origin and meaning of the chi-rho symbol in the Late Antique and early Byzantine period. In their offer, the fellowship committee extolls Sonia’s research: “Your careful study of rhi-rho imagery across multiple media and regions of the Late Antique world holds great promise for advancing our understanding of this iconography that is so central to the history of early Christianity and the later Roman Empire.

Doctoral candidate Jennifer Baez (PhD 2022) received an inaugural award from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation for doctoral research travel to the archdiocese of Santo Domingo in 2019. There she examined the correspondence between Santo Domingo and the diocese of Venezuela during the late colonial period. Jennifer was among six scholars selected as the first-ever recipients of these unrestricted awards for research on colonial Spanish American art and history.

In 2021, doctoral candidate Rachel Carlisle (PhD 2022) received a Fulbright Research Award to conduct dissertation research at the University of Augsburg for the 2020–21 academic year. Rachel investigated archival documents, art, and architecture primarily in Augsburg, but also in nearby Munich and Dillingen. Rachel also received a Kress Language School Fellowship to attend Middlebury Language Schoolfor seven weeks in 2019 completing Middlebury’s language immersion program in German.

Doctoral candidate Lacy Gillette received a Fulbright Student Award for dissertation research in Erlangen, Germany for 2019-20. The award supported research research at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in the Institute of Art History, at the Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and the Nuremberg city archives, and travel to Frankfurt am Main and Wolfenbüttel. Lacy writes, "I am so very thankful for the support and encouragement of Dr. Stephanie Leitch and the Department of Art History throughout the application process. It is an honor, as a Fulbright scholar, to be given the opportunity to experience Germany and study its amazing book culture."

As a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Valencia in 2016 and 2017, doctoral candidate Carolina Alarcon (PhD '18) organized two symposia exploring the intersections between art and science in the early modern world for the Lopez Piñero Institute for the History of Science and Medicine. In her dissertation, "Materia Medica: Anatomical Illustrations in Early Modern Spain," Carolina examined anatomical publications and images generated by practicing physicians and theorists of Spanish origin whose contributions have languished in the shadow of Andreas Vesalius’s anatomical atlas De humani corporis fabrica. She demonstrated the contributions these prints made to early modern globalism.