Grants

This year the NFAH will be offering five publication subvention grants with prizes between $1,000 and $5,000 for book publication. Like other applications received by the NFAH, these applications will be read by the foundation leadership and relevant foundation committees. Applications are particularly welcome from scholars (tenure track or otherwise) writing in less developed fields where image creation and rights might be a particular impediment to publication.

Applicants should submit a cover letter (maximum 750 words) explaining their publication and the reason for needing publication subvention aid, as well as a copy of the contract (signed and countersigned by author and publisher), and the current text of the book’s introduction. In the cover letter, applicants should not only describe the project but list reasons for special assistance. These reasons may include such things as lack of institutional support or the difficulty of obtaining images for publication (e.g. commissioning new photography). They must also detail other sources of funding. A letter of support from the editor/publisher is also desirable. As with other NFAH prizes, need will be a major criterium for selection. All materials may be submitted as pdfs labeled with first initial and last name of the candidate via email to info@nfah.org.

The NFAH actively seeks to promote the diversity of the field of art history.

Deadline: February 20, 2024

CANDIDATES WILL BE INFORMED OF THE NFAH DECISION BY APRIL 12, 2024

2023 Recipients

Alexander Bigman, Pictures and the Past: Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press)

Alexis Culotta, The Frescoed Façade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture (forthcoming, Amsterdam University Press)

Isabelle Gapp, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890–1930 (forthcoming, Lund Humphries)

Mina Kim, Contemporary Korean Art: New Directions since the 1960s (forthcoming, Reaktion Books)

Emily Neumeier, Fortune and Triumph: An Architectural Revolution in the Ottoman Mediterranean, 1788-1822 (forthcoming, The Pennsylvania State University Press)

Giulia Paoletti, Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840–1960 (forthcoming, Princeton University Press)

Vanessa Schulman, Art During Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North (forthcoming, University of Massachusetts Press)