A huge congratulations to HART grad alum, Dr. Olivia Wolf, for receiving the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowships this year!
Currently serving as Assistant Professor of Art History at Loyola University Chicago, Dr. Wolf will use both awards to support a year of writing on her book project which is based on her dissertation at Rice, "Migrant Constructions and Mahjar Monuments: Transnational Art and Architecture in Modern Argentina, 1910-1955," written under her advisor Prof. Fabiola López-Durán.
Her current book project entitled “Migrant Constructions: Transnational Art and Architecture of the Arab Diaspora in Modern Argentina“ examines the art and architecture of the Arab diaspora in modern Argentina as a powerful vehicle for transnational self-representation. Argentina experienced one of the largest waves of mass migration in Latin America in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, ushering in diverse diaspora communities including Syrian and Lebanese immigrants from the Eastern Mediterranean who forged their own diasporic identity and contributed to Latin American modernism during the first half of the twentieth century.
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