Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation offers predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships annually in support of projects and research initiatives that will advance the field of art of the Spanish Americas. Launched in 2018, the Marilynn Thoma Fellowship is the only unrestricted research funding in the United States devoted exclusively to the field of art of the Spanish Americas.

Guidelines and the application link are available here.

In 2021, the Thoma Foundation announced the Exploratory Travel Award in the Art of the Spanish Americas, which enables PhD students to travel to Latin America to visit archives, museums, and art collections and connect with local scholars. Read more about the guidelines and application procedure here.

Andrea Tejada Farfán, Exploratory Travel Awardee

Andrea Giuliana Tejada Farfán received an Exploratory Travel Award in March 2021 to further her dissertation research in the Art of the Spanish Americas. She is in her first year of doctoral work ...

2022

Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

Ana Irene Plaza Roig, Exploratory Travel Awardee

Ana Plaza Roig received an Exploratory Travel Award in March 2022. Ana is a PhD student in Art Theory and History at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina and holds a ...

Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

Elba María Tejero Cox, Exploratory Travel Awardee

Elba María Tejero Cox, PhD student at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, was awarded the inaugural Exploratory Travel Award in October 2021. She is conducting her dissertation El conjunto religioso de Santo ...

2022

Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

Gaby Greenlee, Marilynn Thoma Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Gaby Greenlee, Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History at Santa Clara University, has received a Marilynn Thoma Postdoctoral Fellowship to support the development of her dissertation into a manuscript ...

2022

Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

Adam Jasienski, Marilynn Thoma Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Adam Jasienski, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Southern Methodist University, has been awarded a one-year Marilynn Thoma Postdoctoral Fellowship to research and write several chapters of a manuscript considering ...

2022

Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

Elena Amerio, Marilynn Thoma Predoctoral Fellow

Elena Amerio, PhD candidate at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, has received an award to further the research and writing of her dissertation, which examines the circulation of Jesuit religious art and ...

Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Yessica Porras, Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award Winner

Yessica Porras, PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, has received the Thoma Foundation Research and Travel Award in the amount of $24,333 to complete collections and archival research for her ...

Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

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Vanina Scocchera, Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award Winner

Dr. Vanina Scocchera, postdoctoral fellow at the National Research Council of Argentina and Assistant Professor of Spanish American Art History at the University of Buenos Aires, was awarded a 2021–22 Thoma Foundation ...

Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners

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Laura Vargas Murcia, Post-Doctoral Marilynn Thoma Fellow

In 2021, Dr. Laura Vargas Murcia, independent scholar of Colombian art history, was awarded a two-year Marilynn Thoma Postdoctoral Fellowship in the amount of $120,000 to complete a book manuscript on the cajones(portable altarpieces) of Colombia ...

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Ninel Valderrama Negrón, Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award Winner

Ninel Valderrama Negrón (PhD Candidate in Romance Studies at Duke University) is awarded a 2020–21 Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award in the amount of $17,534 to conduct research towards her dissertation ...

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