Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship

Alexis Abrams ’97
Columbia University
Exploration, through the medium of photography, of the emotional, spiritual, and physical journeys that constitute pilgrimage at the turn of the millennium

William Carson ’99
Harvard University
Film and photograph the unique cultural changes taking place in Sherpa culture

Maika Pollack ’99
Harvard University
Research the people and places in an abandoned family “art” photo album, writing the story of the search and documenting it with photographs

Elisabeth Ben-David ’96
Brandeis University
International law and art institution policies

Nicola Lopez ’98
Columbia University
Documenting the visual cultures of Oaxaxa, Mexico and Lima, Peru

Dushan Petrovich ’97
Yale University
Study of large-scale narrative Renaissance paintings in Italy

Elizabeth Raskin ’96
Brandeis University
Researching the conceptual parallels between her own art and the city of Pompeii

Sarah D. Cummins ’97
Boston University
Painting and study of aboriginal art in Australia

Tamar Miller ’94
Brandeis University
Painting and study of Renaissance art in Italy

Dorothy L. Szemiot ’97
Columbia University
Study of Moroccan zillij, the art of geometric mosaic

Keren Liebembuk ’96
Brandeis University
Painting and traveling in Latin America with studio work to be undertaken in Costa Rica

Ara H. Merjian ’96
Yale University
Study in Spain of how various Spanish artists of different political ideologies and from different parts of Spain approached the Spanish Civil War through the visual arts

Rachel F. Natelson ’96
Yale University
Examination of how changing perceptions of national identity are manifested in contemporary Hong Kong art

Bryan R. Just ’95
Yale University
Study of traditional weaving techniques in the highlands of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico

Kathleen M. Rozanski ’95
Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Portraying the lives of deaf people in Europe through photographs and their testimonies

Zoe A. White ’94
Harvard University
Exploring the communicative power of photography, recording the spread of American pop culture along the northern 30th parallel

David J. Drogin ’94
Wesleyan University
Study of how Renaissance patrons in Bologna, Italy used artistic commissions to assert their presence in the city

Anoka Faruqee ’94
Yale University
Painting and studying Indian Art, including enrollment in the Visva Bharati School in Santiniketan, India

Cleo Kung ’92
Columbia University
Study of ceramic-making techniques at the Beijing Central Academy of Arts and Design

Fernando Feuereisen ’92
City College of New York/CUNY
Oil paintings of the landscape of Chile

Katerina S. C. Marcelja ’93
Boston University
Dumuzi's Dream, play produced and directed in Ljubljana, Slovenia using the texts of Sumerian mythology and three-dimensional art

Miriam Louisa Steinberg ’93
Brandeis University
Study of contemporary European, public art in transportation systems