ACAH Grants and Prizes:
2025-2026
Research grants
- Michael Norton research at the National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) for the dissertation, “The Universe Incarnate: Cosmic Diagrams and Embodied Soteriology in Medieval China”
- Mo Zhang research at the Art Institute of Chicago for the dissertation, “Pushing Up the Thatched Awning: Painting, Vision, and Mind in Fifteenth-Century China”
Conference travel grants
- Filippo Grassi, “Nature, Human, Crisis, Tradition: Ecological perspectives in the work of Chuang Che and Huang Chih-yang,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Pittsburgh, PA
- Henning von Mirbach, “Fresh Water and Tender Leaves: Tea Drinking in Ming China amid the Limited Availability of Natural Resources,” International Conference on Ming–Qing Studies, Taipei
- Sizhao Yi, “Melancholic Things: Sensing Time in Early-Qing Paintings,” Sixteenth Century Society, Portland, OR
2024-2025
Research grants
- Jiayi Zhu field research in Hangzhou for the dissertation, “A Buddha Land for All? The Kings’ Plan and Practitioners’ Religious Landscape during the Wuyue Kingdom (907-978)”
- Adam Monohon visit to the Peabody Essex Museum and Harvard University libraries for dissertation research on 19th-c. landscape photography in the Wuyi Mountains, Fujian
Conference travel grants
- Maximilian Langefeld, “Difference, Dissonance, Discord? Queer Curatorial Activism in a Harmonious Society” and Co-Chair of another session, “Up in Arms: Aesthetics of Resistance and Solidarity in Contemporary Art,” College Art Association, New York, NY
- Emma Laube, “Perceptions of Jade in Republican China: Handicraft Tradition and the 1937 Paris Exposition in Shanghai,” American Historical Association, New York, NY
- Guan-Fan Tan, Convenor, “Expressing Divinity, Evoking Devotion: Interweaving Networks Surrounding Chinese Buddhist Artifacts,” Association for Art History, York, UK
- Keyu Yan, “Beijing to Hangzhou: Maryn Varbanov and the Significance of Mixed Media in Post-Mao China,” College Art Association, New York, NY
2023-2024
Research grants
- Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres collaboration with artist Hong Xian (Margaret Chang) for a presentation at the “Nomadic Artist in the Chinese Diasporas” conference (College Park, MD) and a potential retrospective exhibition
- Isabel McWilliams visit to the Art Institute of Chicago for research on both the dissertation, “In Situ Actualization: The Hyper-bodied Bodhisattva in Eighth-Century East Asian Buddhist Art,” and a separate project on flora in Tang-period art
