Katherine Boivin Awarded New Foundation for Art History Fellowship
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Katherine Boivin, associate professor of art history and visual culture at Bard College, is the recipient of a 2026-27 Non-Residential Fellowship from the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH), a year-long fellowship awarded annually to mid-career scholars carrying out innovative work on the art of any era or culture. NFAH aims to identify and support early and mid-career scholars and scholarly projects which would not necessarily be sustained by other established avenues, and to provide support based not only on merit but on need in order to foster the best scholarship possible in the art history field.The fellowship will contribute $50,000 in support of Boivin’s current project, Powers of Projection: Contingent Architecture and Medieval Subjectivity. The book considers everyday spaces in the medieval city, which were constructed and maintained through large-scale collaborative processes but which, through their small scale, addressed individual pedestrians. It asks how medieval people experienced these spaces and whether such fundamentally contingent architecture shaped the understanding of the self in relationship to society. The project guides readers from outside the gates of the medieval city into its very heart through a series of encounters with different projecting architectural features, including bridges, city gates, market stalls, and charnel houses.
Katherine M. Boivin is the author of Riemenschneider in Rothenburg: Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City (Penn State University Press, 2021) and coeditor of Riemenschneider in Situ (Brepols, 2021) and Gothic Space: Studies in Celebration of Stephen Murray (Brill, 2026). Boivin’s work has been recognized with numerous fellowships and awards, including the Michèle Dominy Award for Teaching Excellence, a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Art History Grant, an NEH Summer Stipends Award, an ICMA Research Grant, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her research focuses on the dynamic interactions between art, architecture, and human activity in late medieval Europe.
About the New Foundation for Art History
Founded in 2019, the New Foundation for Art History strives to serve the field in innovative ways that have been overlooked or underserved by existing institutions of its kind. The goal of the NFAH is to foster the best current research in Art History with a flexible approach to grant-making, and to lead by example towards a more equitable future of the discipline where excellence is promoted and rewarded in the broadest ways possible.
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About Bard College
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place and Massena properties, Bard’s campus consists of more than 1,200 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; advanced degrees through 14 graduate programs; 10 early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 166-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at the main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place and Massena properties, Bard’s campus consists of more than 1,200 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; advanced degrees through 14 graduate programs; 10 early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 166-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at the main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.
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This event was last updated on 06-24-2026
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