by Jon Lackman | 7 April 2008 | Awards
From the fields of “Fine Arts Research,” “Architecture, Planning and Design,” and “Photography studies,” there were six winners this year. Here they are, together with their affiliations, and areas of research:
Meiling Cheng, Associate Professor of Critical Studies and English, and Director of Critical Studies, School of Theatre, University of Southern California: Contemporary time-based art in China.
David W. Galenson, Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago: Conceptual revolutions in twentieth-century art.
Michael Leja, Professor, History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania: The flood pictures in the mid-nineteenth century.
Michael J. Lewis, Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art, Williams College: The pietist tradition in town planning.
Kaja Silverman, Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Art History, University of California, Berkeley: The miracle of analogy.
Sarah Watts, Professor of History, Wake Forest University: The political satires of Lyonel Feininger.
