# Featured Graduate Alumni ## News [### HAA Graduate Student Ebonie Pollock Awarded Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2026 – 2027 ](https://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/fellows-recipients/fellow/ebonie-pollock/) May 06, 2026 The Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2026 – 2027 has been awarded to Ebonie Pollock, a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Harvard University, for her dissertation ​ “Gold Would Not Be Too Precious a Medium”... ![Ebonie Pollock Portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Pollock_Ebonie_00.jpg?itok=lQxlMzV4) [### Byron Otis and Marin Gray Awarded the Bowdoin Prize ](/news/2026/05/byron-otis-and-marin-gray-awarded-bowdoin-prize) May 04, 2026 Congratulations to Marin Gray (HAA class of 2026) and Byron Otis (HAA G3), who have both been awarded Bowdoin Essay Prizes for 2025-2026. They are two of only six awardees total for the year. The Bowdoin Prizes, some of Harvard’s oldest and most... ![Marin Gray (left), Byron Otis (right)](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/marinbyron.png?itok=-wJiMxFH) [### HAA Graduate Student Walid Akef Appointed Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in UMass Amherst ](https://www.umass.edu/art-history/news/welcoming-walid-akef) April 28, 2026 The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is pleased to welcome Walid Akef as a new faculty member who will teach Islamic Art and Architecture starting fall 2026. Akef is currently completing his PhD in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic... ![Walid Akef](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/IMG_4320.jpeg?itok=QsmflbqR) [### The Frick Collection Appoints HAA Alumnus Aaron Wile As New John Updike Curator ](https://artdaily.com/news/191217/Frick-appoints-new-John-Updike-Curator) February 20, 2026 NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection today announced the appointment of Dr. Aaron Wile as its new John Updike Curator. He will take up the post on April 6, 2026. In this senior curatorial role, Wile succeeds Dr. Aimee Ng, who became the museum’s Peter Jay... ![dr aaron wile portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.05.26-pm.png?h=1cadc5bc&itok=yAT7wZY0) [### HAA Graduate Student Icey Lin Received Outstanding Academic Award at Peking University International Forum ](/news/2025/09/haa-graduate-student-icey-lin-received-outstanding-academic-award-peking-university) September 03, 2025 Congratulations to HAA Ph.D. student Icey Lin for earning first place in the Art History panel at the 2025 International Doctoral Student Forum for Art Studies, hosted by Peking University. Her paper, “Life after Life: Re-interpreting Yingxian Timber... ![Icey Lin Portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/iceyimage003.png?itok=-QAnH4FN) [### Congratulations to the 2025 PhD recipients ](/news/2025/05/congratulations-2025-phd-recipients) May 30, 2025 The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to the thirteen graduate students who received PhD degrees during the 2024–2025 academic year. Bay Bakshi — Agitational Photography, 1930–1945: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Claude... ![PhD Recipients speaker with a professor during graduation reception](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/_NZF2828.jpg?itok=DRso6ivd) [### HAA PhD Alumna Jordan Troeller to Publish "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury" via MIT Press ](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049498/ruth-asawa-and-the-artist-mother-at-midcentury/) March 26, 2025 The book be out May 6th, 2025. "How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. "For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a... ![Ruth Asawa and the artist-mother at midcentury cover ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/81hqGrZTAwL._SL1500_.jpg?itok=nS_xfzKx) [### HAA PhD Alumnus Alan Cholodenko Admitted As Honorary Fellow at the University of Sydney ](https://powerinstitute.org.au/honouring-alan-cholodenko) October 31, 2024 The University of Sydney honoured Dr Alan Cholodenko for his outstanding contributions to the University, admitting him as an Honorary Fellow. Dr Cholodenko first began teaching at the University in 1978, and quickly became a pivotal figure in the... ![ac7](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/ac7.jpg?itok=YINB14Qb) [### HAA Graduate student Nolan Boomer awarded Peter C. Marzio Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in Latin American and Latino Art ](https://icaa.mfah.org/s/en/blog/post/2024-peter-c-marzio-award-winners-announced) October 16, 2024 Nolan Boomer, current PhD student, was awarded the Peter C. Marizo prize for their essay, “Against Maritime Industry: Two Utopian Visions for Las Cruces, Chile" by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston... ![img_2896](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/img_2896.jpeg?itok=zTFcI8z-) [### HAA Graduate Student Ebonie Pollock Named 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship Recipient ](https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/grants/scholars/ebonie-pollock) May 29, 2024 Congratulations to Ebonie Pollock for being named as this year’s Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship recipient! Ebonie Pollock is a PhD Student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Harvard University, where she studies African Diaspora Art... ![ebonie](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/ebonie.jpg?itok=RBOs8rzf) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [5](?page=4 "Go to page 5") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")