Department of Art History

Donated by colleagues and friends in honor of a former faculty member to support creative research and scholarship in either the art of the Middle Ages or issues of gender and sexuality in the visual arts.

Given by the American Friends of the Chagall Biblical Message Museum for summer travel and study in France. Recipients are expected to visit the Chagall Museum in Nice during the fellowship tenure.

Named for a former faculty member, open to art history graduate students for dissertation research/write-up or language study.

Awarded annually to the best dissertation, Masters Thesis, and Senior Thesis respectively. 

Awarded to students who simultaneously hold curatorial positions in local museums and are studying modern and contemporary art.

Honoring a former faculty member and University president, donated to provide dissertation research funding for students studying European art in the period 1400­–1700.

Given in memory of a former student at the University by his daughter for dissertation write-up or research travel.

In honor of a former graduate student in Chinese art, an essay prize awarded every spring to a graduate scholar at the University for outstanding contributions to the study of the art and visual culture of Asia. CAEA link

Given by Inge Maser in honor of Edward Maser to support graduate students studying Baroque art and, secondarily, to support graduate students studying the decorative arts.

Awarded annually by the Ryerson Fellowship Committee to graduate students who are studying Greek and Roman archaeology broadly construed. Students may apply for travel grants, pre-dissertation grants, or dissertation year write-up fellowships. The dissertation year write-up fellowship is a final year (sometimes also called 6th year) of funding to enable a student to focus full time on the completion of the dissertation.  In the absence of qualified candidates who are studying Greek and Roman archaeology, fellowship funds will be available to graduate students who are studying Near Eastern archaeology and other related fields. Past recipients have worked on topics ranging Gandharan sculpture to colonial Latin American architecture.

Named for a former faculty member, available for pre-dissertation and dissertation research, with preference for classical art.

Given by friends of Mr. Shapiro for pre-dissertation and dissertation research in the US or abroad.

Given in memory of a past faculty member for study and travel abroad at the pre-dissertation stage. Preference will be given to students with little or no travel experience in the country of proposed research.

Established in honor of the Smart Family to sponsor critically important pre-dissertation and dissertation research.

Honoring a faculty member, for dissertation travel in the US or abroad.

Honoring a former faculty member renowned for his book Learning to Look and subsequent service as director of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. 

In honor of a graduate of the PhD program and scholar of Byzantine art, to support graduate student research travel and related activities.

This fund supports University of Chicago Arts & Humanities Division PhD students who are conducting dissertation research-related travel or projects in the field of East Asian Art. Applications are due to the Division of the Arts & Humanities each spring. Students are not required to be ABD to receive the fellowship; however, it may be held only once during a student's time at the University. For more information or to apply, contact humdos@uchicago.edu or visit the Center for the Art of East Asia website for further information.