As announced in the New York Times (April 11, 2019), KRISTIE LA (G2) has been awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. This is a truly major graduate-school fellowship awarded to outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States for their potential to make significant contributions to society, culture, or academic fields. Kristie is one of 30 awardees selected from a pool of 1,767 applicants representing all fields of graduate study, including the arts and humanities, natural and social sciences, law, and medicine. Past recipients include former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (1998 Fellow), California Surgeon General Nadine Burke-Harris (1999 Fellow), AI leader Fei-Fei Li (1999 Fellow), CareMore Health CEO Sachin Jain (2004 Fellow), composer Lera Auerbach (1998 Fellow), and Lieutenant Governor of Washington Cyrus Habib (2007 Fellow). Kristie is a modernist specializing in the nexus of photographic practices in Germany and Russia between the first and second world wars. She is the first art historian ever to receive the PD Soros Fellowship. The Department warmly congratulates Kristie on her extraordinary achievement.
photo by Julia Silverman