Meagan Anderson, PhD candidate, Art History, University of Oklahoma: “Conceptualizing Place: The Great Barrier Canyon Mural”

Kevin Hong, PhD candidate, History of Art, Yale University: “Photography on Shifting Ground: Cameraless Techniques in the United States, 1937–1956”

Lauren Rosenblum, PhD candidate, Art History, City University of New York: “Technicalities of Apprenticeship: June Wayne and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in The Art, Craft and Labor of Lithography during the American Print Renaissance, 1952–1968”

Colin Young, PhD candidate, History of Art, Yale University: “Seeing in Black and White: Frederic Remington and the Buffalo Soldiers in Arizona Territory”

Molly Eckel, PhD Candidate, Department of Art & Archaeology Princeton University: “Plant, Animal, Object, Human: Still Life and Empire in the United States, 1815–1875"

Katherine Fein, PhD, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University: “The Garb of Nature: Art, Nudity, and Ecology in the Nineteenth-Century United States”

Lauren van Haaften-Schick, PhD, History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University: “Collaboration, Critique, and Reform in Art and Law: Origins and Afterlives of ‘The Artist’s Contract’”

Michaela Haffner, PhD Candidate, History of Art, Yale University: “Air, Water, Sun, and Citrus: The Visual Culture of Naturopathy & the Fashioning of White Wellness”

Samuel Allen, PhD candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: Old West: Mining Towns and Historical Consciousness in Group f.64 Photography

Alyssa Bralower, PhD Candidate, Art History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Ellen Auerbach’s Transnational Attachments: Photography, Gender, and the Grey Zones of Modernity

Wendi Sierra, PhD, Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media, North Carolina State University: Historicizing Native American Characters in Digital Games

Carolin Görgen, PhD, Université Paris-Diderot & École du Louvre: “From the Periphery: Re-reading the photo-history of the American West”

Alexis Monroe, PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: “The Crisis of the 1850s: American Land and Landscape, 1848-1861”

Alexandra Nicolaides, PhD candidate, Art History, Stony Brook University: Experiments and Failures: The Display of Color Photography, 1950-1976

James Denison, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan: “The Stieglitz Circle, Race, and the Historiography of Modern American Art”

Jessica Orzulak, PhD Candidate, Duke University: "Beyond Curtis: Photographing the Nations of Native America"

Ellery Foutch, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Middlebury College: “Martin Johnson Heade’s ‘Gems of Brazil’”

Erika Pazian, PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York: Mexican War images (topic)

Birgit Spengler, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Goethe University: “Women’s Contributions to Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- century Photography of the American West”

Catherine Barth, PhD Candidate, Emory University: American Photography of the Mid-Twentieth Century: Clarence John Laughlin, Wynn Bullock, and Frederick Sommer”

Louise Siddons, Associate Professor of Art History, Oklahoma State University: “‘Good Pictures are a Strong Weapon’: Laura Gilpin and the Politics of The Enduring Navaho”

Katherine (Kappy) Mintie, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley: “An Unoriginal View? The Trial of William Henry Jackson’s The Palisades, Alpine Pass”

Emily Burns, Associate Professor of Art History, Auburn University: “From the Prairie to Paris: Bronzes of the American West in France, 1897–1900”

Emily Voelker, PhD Candidate, Boston University: “A ‘Collection of American Types’ in Paris: The Transnational Dissemination and Reception of William Henry Jackson’s Photographs of North American Indians (1877)”

Layla Bermeo, PhD Candidate, Harvard University: “Borderlands between Text and Image: The United States, Mexico, and Mapmaking, 1821–1848”

Nika Elder, Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Princeton University: “William Harnett’s Curious Objects”

Sedrick Huckaby, MFA: A Dialogue With an Unknown People (series of works on paper)

Jennifer Henneman, PhD Candidate, University of Washington: “The American Cowgirl, an Icon of Unintended Consequence; or, How Tomboys Tamed the West”

Monica Steinberg, PhD Candidate, Graduate Center of The City University of New York: “Name-Games: Documenting the Development of Alter-Egos in the Los Angeles Art World of the 1960s”

Maggie Cao, PhD Candidate, Harvard University: “Martin Johnson Heade and the Un-grounding of Landscape”

Timothy G. Andrus, PhD Candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University: “Stuart Davis’ New Mexican Landscape and the American Scene”

Aaron Carico, PhD Candidate, Yale University: “Portrait as Still Life: Slavery, the Politics of Realism, and William Harnett’s Attention, Company!”

Nancy Palm, PhD Candidate, Indiana University: “Thomas Cole’s National Landscapes and the Context of Indian Identity Construction in Nineteenth-Century America: Preliminary Findings at the Amon Carter Museum”

Mark White, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University: “Art as a Social Expression: Stuart Davis, Communication, and the Agency of Abstraction”

Shirley Reece-Hughes, PhD, Independent Scholar: “Uncovering America's Vernacular Past: Artist Immigrants and Cross-Culturalism in the Age of Early Modernism”