Awards and Fellowships
Recent awards and fellowships received by current PhD students since entering the program. Listed alphabetically by year:
Non-Harvard-sponsored
2008–2009
- Álex Bueno has received a Blakemore Freeman Fellowship for study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama.
- Jennifer Mack received a Scholar Award for dissertation research and writing from the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.).
- Diana Ramirez Jasso received a Trustees Merit Citation as part of the 2008 Carter Manny Award Program for her project “Reinventing the Garden: Childhood and Architecture, 1800-1910.”
- David Theodore has received a four-year Trudeau Award from the Trudeau Foundation.
- Olga Touloumi has received multi-year scholarships from the Alexandros S. Onassis Foundation and the Propondis Foundation.
2007–2008
- Kenny Cupers has received a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French Embassy to the United States for dissertation research.
- Max Hirsh has received a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
- Jennifer Mack has received a dissertation research fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
- Elysse Newman has been accepted as a pre-dissertation fellow to the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.
- Diana Ramirez Jasso received an International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.
- Fallon Samuels has been selected as the 2008 AIA Visiting Scholar at the National Building Museum.
2006–2007
- Robin Schuldenfrei received a Junior Annual Meeting Fellowship from the Society of Architectural Historians.
- Olga Touloumi received a Konstantinos Katseas Scholarship from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Gerondelis Foundation Award.
2005–2006
- Erik Ghenoiu is a Gastwissenschaftler at the Center for Metropolitan Studies and Transatlantisches Graduiertenkolleg, Technische Universität Berlin.
- Timothy Hyde received a Citation of Special Recognition from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
- Seng Kuan received Dissertation Fellowships from the Japan Foundation and from the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art (latter declined).
- Bill Rankin received a three-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
- Amanda Reeser Lawrence received a Research Support Grant from the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art.
- Robin Schuldenfrei received an ADM-HEA Student Bursary from the Art Design Media Subject Centre of Brighton, England.
2004–2005
- Kenny Cupers received a multi-year Foreign Fulbright Fellowship and a UK Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies essay prize.
- Erik Ghenoiu was a Visiting Fellow at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, and was named Co-director, Berlin Forum für Architektur- und Stadtforschung.
- Timothy Hyde received a John Coolidge Student Fellowship from the Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter.
- Ana Miljacki received a Graham Foundation Grant for a documentary exhibition entitled “The Architects of Our Happiness.”
- Mariana Mogilevich received a four-year Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education.
2003–2004
- Bill Rankin received a four-year Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education.
2002–2003
- Erik Ghenoiu received a Summer Travel Grant from the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
- Ana Miljacki received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
- Diana Ramirez Jasso received a multi-year Graduate Fellowship from the Mexican Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.
- Robin Schuldenfrei received an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship for research at Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum, a Summer Language Grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), and a John Coolidge Student Fellowship for summer research travel from the Society of Architectural Historians.
Harvard-sponsored
2008–2009
- Brian Goldstein, PhD Candidate was awarded a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from The Bok Center, based on outstanding student evalutions. Brian taught Harvard College undergraduate sections in GSD Professor Alex Krieger’s core curriculum course “Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form” in spring 2009.
- Lara Belkind received a Graduate Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Center for European Studies.
- Kenny Cupers received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate Society.
- Max Hirsh received a Desmond & Whitney Shum Fellowship from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship.
- Mariana Mogilevich received a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship.
- Elysse Newman received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate Society.
- Diana Ramirez Jasso received a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship and a Graduate Society Fellowship.
2007–2008
- Aliki Economides received an extension to her Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship.
- Max Hirsh received a Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, a Pre-Dissertation Grant from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a Summer Pre-Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship from the Graduate Society (latter declined).
- Jennifer Mack has received a Krupp Foundation fellowship from the Center for European Studies.
2006–2007
- Álex Bueno received a Summer Language Study Grant from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
- Kenny Cupers received a Dissertation Research Grant from the Center for European Studies and a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship.
- Aliki Economides received an extension to her Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship.
- Max Hirsh received a Conference Travel Grant from the Graduate Student Council.
- Jennifer Mack received a Summer Predissertation Fellowship from the Graduate Society and a Summer Research Grant from the Graduate Student Council.
- Robin Schuldenfrei received a Graduate Summer Travel Grant from the Center for European Studies.
2005–2006
- Jennifer Hock received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate Society.
- Timothy Hyde received a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship and a David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Conference Travel Grant.
- Matt Lasner received an A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government PhD Dissertation Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate Society.
- Robin Schuldenfrei received a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship.
2004–2005
- Aliki Economides received a two-year Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship and a Conference Travel Grant from the Advanced Studies Program.
- Erik Ghenoiu received a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship.
- Jennifer Hock received a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship.
- Seng Kuan received a Summer Language Grant from the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies.
- Matt Lasner received a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship and a Real Estate Academic Initiative Research Grant.
- Diana Ramirez Jasso received a Conference Grant from the Graduate Student Council.
- Robin Schuldenfrei received a Pre-Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship from the Graduate Society.
2003–2004
- Stella Boeva received an Outstanding Housing Paper Award from the GSD/KSG Joint Center for Housing Studies and a Summer Language Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
- Timothy Hyde received a Summer Research Grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
- Ana Miljacki received a Krupp Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
- Diana Ramirez Jasso received a Mexican Foundation Grant.
- Robin Schuldenfrei received a Summer Research Grant from the Graduate Student Council.
2002–2003
- Timothy Hyde received a Summer Fellowship from the Graduate Society and a Conference Grant from the Graduate Student Council.
- Seng Kuan received a Summer Language Grant from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
- Robin Schuldenfrei received a Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship for summer research.