Julia Detchon awarded Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship

Julia Detchon, CLAVIS PhD candidate, has been awarded a Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) for up to 12 months of primary research in Buenos Aires for her dissertation, “Work-Around: Four Argentine Artists between Feminism and Conceptualism, 1968–1983.”

Julia’s project was selected from a highly competitive pool of  934 graduate student applicants, representing 35 universities and 14 disciplines.

The IDRF Program supports the next generation of scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences pursuing research that advances knowledge about non-US cultures and societies. Since its inception in 1997, the IDRF program has funded more than eleven hundred projects, with research spanning the globe. The IDRF program is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Social Science Research Council.