Department of the History of Art and Architecture Scholarship Recipients
Photo courtesy of Tatymn Snider.
With the generous support of its alumni and partners, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture (HAA) delivers one-of-a-kind educational experiences to all its undergraduate and graduate majors. Among these supports, The Marian Donnelly Student Award, The Amy and Ross Curry Endowment, the Mark Sponenberg Endowment, and the Alice Wingwall Travel Award, enable HAA students to travel nationally and internationally to study works of art firsthand or seize invaluable professional development opportunities to present their research in academic conferences and workshops. In a departmental Wednesday Colloquium held in fall 2023, the seven 2022-23 recipients of these awards— Ren Reed, Mew Lingjun Jiang, Gabriela Chitwood, Raechel Root, Jessica Johnson, Tatymn Snider, Patricia McCall, and Joe Sussi—shared their unique and fulfilling experiences.
Alice Wingwall Travel Award in Art History
Marian Donnelly Student Award
Joe Sussi, PhD Candidate
Thanks to the Amy and Ross Kari Student Award, Ren was able to travel to the Northwest Undergraduate Conference of the Ancient World. There, Ren presented their paper, “Harmony and Matrimony: A Cameo of Hermaphroditus.” The feedback and questions they received from the audience encouraged Ren to take a deeper dive into the subject.
The deeper dive resulted in multiple further undergraduate awards, including the department’s Marion Donnelly Book Prize for the best undergraduate term paper in art history. In the fall of 2023, Ren was selected as one of only five recipients of the UO Libraries’ Award For Undergraduate Research Excellence (LAURE).
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The Department of the History of Art and Architecture (HAA) explores global history, culture, and society through art and architecture from antiquity to the present day. Trained to celebrate cultural differences and the broad spectrum of human creativity and expression, art history students are natural ambassadors of pluralism and tolerance. You’ll develop skills in appreciating visual and material culture to help you become a true global citizen—ideally equipped to understand how historical events and concerns relate to important contemporary and international phenomena.