School of Art & Art History PhD Candidate Receives Dissertation Fellowship

The School of Art & Art History is very proud to announce that PhD candidate Marissa Howard Baker is a recipient of the twenty-fifth annual Luce/The American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowships in American Art, supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Baker is one of 11 advanced graduate students that are pursuing promising research in object- and image-based US art history.

“This fellowship program represents a longstanding partnership between the Luce Foundation and ACLS to support new generations of scholars working within the field of US art history,” said Matthew Goldfeder, director of fellowship programs at ACLS. “Over the past 25 years, 240 fellows have helped strengthen the field, becoming leaders at their institutions and in their intellectual domains. This year’s 11 newest awardees carry on that tradition as they develop their original and significant contributions to knowledge.”

Fellows will spend the academic year researching and writing their dissertations at any site appropriate for their work. The cohort also includes the second Ellen Holtzman Fellow, named for the Luce Foundation’s past program director of American art in celebration of her two decades of achievements in that role.

The fellowships will support Baker's dissertation:

The Nation Within: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement and the Figuration of Black Liberation