Department of Art History

Congratulations to Zhenru Zhou and Zsofi Valyi-Nagy (PhD Candidates, Art History) for being awarded Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) Fellowships!

Zhenru Zhou received an Ittleson Fellowship for 2021-2023. She will spend the first year of fellowship at the Dunhuang Mogao Caves among other Buddhist cave sites along the eastern Silk Roads. She looks forward to studying the cave architecture, built environment, and construction history of a few cave composites from the ninth to eleventh centuries. During the second year, she expects to advance and conclude the dissertation project in Washington, DC.

Zsofi Valyi-Nagy has received the Twenty-Four Month Chester Dale Fellowship to support her dissertation project, “Vera Molnar’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe.” She will spend the first year of the fellowship in Europe, first finishing up research in Paris, and then working with a team of media archaeologists at Humboldt University in Berlin who specialize in making obsolete media––including a wide collection of early microcomputers––operational again. She is particularly excited to learn about early computer graphics by making them herself using the kind of hardware Molnar used. Zsofi will spend the second year of the Chester Dale in residence at CASVA, where she plans to revise and complete her dissertation.