SHERA and This Year's CAA-Getty International Travel Grant Recipients

Dear Colleagues,

This February CAA will welcome 15 recipients of CAA-Getty International
Travel Grants to the annual conference of the College Art Association
(CAA). Four of them are art and architectural historians from SHERA's part
of the world: Hungary, Russia, Bulgaria, and Croatia.

*If you a SHERA list subscriber from Russia or Eastern Europe*, please
consider applying for one of these travel grants next time, usually due in
August. http://www.collegeart.org/CAA-GettyInternationalProgram/  They are
a wonderful opportunity to visit the conference and meet scholars from
around the world. Several recipients from previous years are returning to
CAA this year to give papers.

*If you plan to attend CAA* in Washington 3-6 February, please look for the
travel grant recipients. Their bios and photos are below. If you would like
to connect with one of them--perhaps you are traveling to their home
country, or working on a similar subject--please let me know and I will put
you in touch directly.

Best regards,
Margaret
(Host for CAA-Getty International Travel Grants)


*Ildikó Gericsné Fehér* received an MA and PhD in art history from Eötvös
Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. As associate professor in the
Department of Art History of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in
Budapest, she lectures and leads seminars on Renaissance and Baroque art.
She is also a consultant to the university’s Conservation Department.
Fehér’s research interests include detached wall paintings from medieval
and Renaissance Italy in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts
Budapest; Florentine art dealers at the end of the nineteenth century;
Károly Pulszky’s purchases of paintings in Italy for the museum circa 1890;
wall paintings in Umbria from the fourteenth to sixteenth century;
self-portraits by Hungarian artists in the Uffizi Gallery; and the works of
Jacopo Palma il Giovane.



*Lev Maciel* graduated from the Medieval Studies Department at Lomonosov
Moscow State University in Russia in 1998, with an M.A. thesis on
fifteenth-century Spanish history. His dissertation on eighteenth-century
Siberian architecture earned him a PhD in 2004 from the State Institute for
Art History in Moscow. Currently Maciel is an associate professor in the
Faculty of Humanities of the National Research University Higher School of
Economics in Moscow, where he supervises the recently created program in
art history. He is also a part-time research associate professor at the
Institute for Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning in
Moscow. Maciel’s research interests include a wide range of subjects within
the history of architecture, including the late Renaissance and Baroque
(Russia, southern Italy, Brittany, Spain, and Latin America), late
antiquity and Byzantium, the Islamic world, Mongolia and Tibet, and
nonmodernist movements in the twentieth century.



*Emmanuel Moutafov* is a Byzantinist, art historian, and epigrapher who
holds a PhD in world history of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries from
the Institute for Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in
Sofia. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Program in Hellenic
Studies at Princeton University; a Mellon Foundation fellow at the
Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin; a Mellon Foundation fellow at the
W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem; and a
Getty Foundation research fellow in the summer research group Visions of
Byzantium in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2013 he became a supervisor of research
at the board of directors of the Institute for Art Studies at the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences and last year was appointed a director of the same
institute.


*Sandra Uskoković* is an assistant professor in the Department of Arts and
Restoration at the University of Dubrovnik in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Her
primary areas of research include architectural theory, modern
architecture, urban culture, performance art, and cultural studies and
heritage. She received an MA in architectural history and heritage
preservation from George Washington University in Washington, DC, and a PhD
in historic preservation and architectural history from the University of
Zagreb. During 2002–3 Uskoković served as an intern at the International
Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural
Property in Rome, Italy, and at the International Committee on Monuments
and Sites (US/ICOMOS) in Washington, DC. She is a member of the ICOMOS
Scientific Committee on Twentieth-Century Heritage and has participated in
conferences on international preservation. Uskoković is the author of three
books: *Modern Architectural Heritage of Dubrovnik *(Zagreb: Antibarbarus,
2010), *Contemporary Design in Historic Settings *(Zagreb: Antibarbarus,
2013), and *Architect Lovro Perkovi*ć*: Sensibility of Space Design*
(Zagreb: Ex Libris, 2015). She also has published numerous articles in
academic and artistic journals. Since 2015 she has coordinated a regional
interdisciplinary forum for research in urban culture in the Balkans,
called Urban Hum <http://urbanhum.freshcreator.com/>.



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Margaret Samu, Ph.D.
Art Historian, Freelancer
https://newschool.academia.edu/MargaretSamu

*Current Affiliations*
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The New School Parsons School of Design
Stern College for Women

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