This page lists prizes awarded to students by the Department of Art History, the Tyler School of Art, or Temple University on a one-time basis. Click on the link below for each prize or contact arthisto@temple.edu for information.  For short- and long-term funding opportunities for study and research, see Funding for Grad Students and Funding for Undergrads.


Prizes for Graduate Students

The Eakins Lecture and Travel Fund for American Art History

- 2011 recipients:

  • Sarah Iepson, "Death and the Child in Ambrose Andrews' The Children of Nathan Starr (1835)," 37th Annual Cleveland Symposium (theme: Matters of Life and Death: Decay and Rebirth in the Visual Domain), hosted by Case Western Reserve University and held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, February 25, 2011
  • Erin Lehman, "Taking the Count: Thomas Eakins and Middle-Class Masculinities," 32nd Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Albuquerque, N.M., March 5, 2011

- 2010 recipients:

  • Laura Turner Igoe, "All Things Perish: Joseph Biays Ord and the Plight of
    Antebellum American Still-Life Painting," 27th Annual Graduate Student
    Symposium, College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance, Florida State
    University, Tallahasse, FL, October 12, 2009
  • Joseph Larnerd, "Hot Seat: James Hampton's Throne in the Atomic Age, 31st
    Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture
    Association, Albuquerque, N.M., February 13, 2010

The Therese Dolan and Gunter Haase Award

- 2010 recipient: Joseph Larnerd

 

Prizes for Undergraduates

Awarded by the Department of Art History:

  • The Billikopf Awards
  • The Faculty Award in Art History
  • The James F. DeRose Award

Library Prize for Undergraduate Research

Edwin H. Sherman Family Prize for Undergraduate Scholarship