Harold Jones and Frances Murray Research Fellowship

Awards up to $2,500 to encourage research by curators, historians, social scientists, writers, artists, and critics, on photographers whose archives are at the Center.

Recipients: 

2020-2021

• Paulina Banas, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Funding supported current research entitled, Between Artists, Publishers, and Printmakers: Art, Technology and the Marketing of Islamic Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Books.

2019

• Adam Jolles, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Art History, Florida State University and Josh Ellenbogen, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, the University of Pittsburgh, are conducting research for a book about the institutional history of photography since WWII.

2018

• Alana Wolf Johnson is a PhD candidate in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her dissertation is titled, Sensational Atlases of New York City: Mapping Perception between the Wars. Her research at CCP will focus on her chapter, Mediating the Metropolis: Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s "Manhatta" and how the rhythmic organization of Manhatta is anything but accidental.