Grants and Awards

Graduate Student and Independent Scholar Research Grant

The Graduate Student and Independent Scholar Research Grant supports research toward the completion of a thesis, dissertation, or publication. The grant can be used toward the cost of research travel or accommodations, the acquisition of image rights for publication, language study, and other related activities. Applications are limited to graduate students and scholars who do not hold a full-time position at an academic institution. Applicants must be SHERA members in good standing and must have membership in the organization for at least two consecutive years.

Deadline: April 15

2023

For the dissertation project, “Between the Past and the Plan: Soviet Urban Heritage Planning, 1948-1989.”

Harvard University, 2023

Angela Wheeler

2023

For the dissertation project, “The Many Lives of Mezhyhirya: Property, Architecture, and Identity in Ukraine, 1786-2014.”

Stanford University, 2023

Sierra Nota

2022

For the dissertation project, “Occult Imperialism: Helena Blavatsky, Konstantin Bal’mont, and Nikolai Roerich.”

Yale University, 2022

John Webley

2022

For the dissertation project, “Enchanting Russia: National Identity and Cosmopolitan Cultural Transfer in the Work of Viktor Vasnetsov.”

Jacobs University | Constructor University, Bremen, 2022

Ludmila Piters-Hofmann

2021

For the book project, “Female Agency in the Arts of Former Yugoslavia.”

Bloomsbury, 2024

Anja Foerschner

Link to the publication

2021

For the book project, “Prints, Modernity, and Modernism in Russian Art, 1870–1916.”

Galina Mardilovich

2019

For the dissertation project, “Abstraction Beyond Art: The Aesthetics of Censorship and the Russian Avant Garde.”

University of Cambridge, 2019

Kamila Kociałkowska

Link to the publication