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Each year, CAA awards travel and support grants for scholars to attend the Annual Conference, funded by foundations and individual donors. We were thrilled to have so many grantees join us in Chicago for the CAA 114th Annual Conference!  

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CAA Edwards Memorial Support Grantees

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The CAA Edwards Memorial Support Grants, in memory of Archibald Cason Edwards Sr. and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards and made possible by Mary D. Edwards, supports emerging scholars and have received their PhD within the past two years or who are nearing the end of a doctoral program.  

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	Brittany Ellis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presentation: “The Sedimented Image: Transforming the ‘Lac Asphaltite’ into Historical Record and Photomechanical Print” Session: Elemental Infrastructures in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
	Kristie La, Harvard University Presentation: “Sculpture between Respectability and Transgression: Augusta Savage’s Bookends for Countee Cullen” Session: Queer Wanting

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation CAA Annual Conference Travel Fellows

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Recognizing the value of the exchange of ideas and experience among art historians, the Kress Foundation offers travel grants for scholars presenting on European art before 1830.   

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	Jared Burkart, The University of Texas at Austin Presentation: “Humor in Hierarchy: Enslaved Child Portraits in the House of the Vettii” Session: Childhood: Real and Imagined
	Sarah Cohen, Columbia University + Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz Presentation: “The Semiotics of Late Antique Consular Diptychs & Their Early Medieval Reuse” Session: Rethinking the Roles of Ritual Objects and Structures in the Roman World
	Helena Perez Gallardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Session: Beyond Piranesi: Urban Representations in Contemporary Printmaking
	Carlos Lozano Guillem, Università degli studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ Session: Beyond Piranesi: Urban Representations in Contemporary Printmaking
	Millie Horton-Insch, The British Museum Session: The Archival Art Historian
	Georgios Koukovasilis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Presentation: “Staging Visibility in Roman Olympia: Female Portraiture and Patronage at the Heraion” Session: Ready for Her Closeup: Producing the Public Image of Ancient Roman Women
	Kaara Peterson, Miami University of Ohio Presentation: “Birds of a Feather: Portraying Queen Elizabeth I’s Exotica” Session: Queer Wanting
	Crystal Rosenthal, The University of Texas at Austin Presentation: “Against the Current: Naevoleia Tyche and Female Patronage in Pompeii” Session: Ready for Her Closeup: Producing the Public Image of Ancient Roman Women
	Aoife Stables, University College London Presentation: “Did I Just Genuflect? Learning to Navigate Catholic Spaces in Early Career Research” Session: The Archival Art Historian
	Christoph Rodrigo de la Torre, University of California, San Diego/Germany Presentation: “Salt, Swell, Sediment: A Genealogy of Hydrologic Imaging” Session: Reflections on Blue: Oceans, Elements, Circulations