The University of Michigan Museum Studies Program is pleased to offer a competitive fellowship to doctoral students in the program. Through the “Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Museums,” the Museum Studies Program provides awards up to $10,000 to MSP students whose dissertation research is explicitly situated in or around museums and related institutions. MSP students must have completed the Museum Studies Proseminar and at least 3 credits of the cognate course requirement to be considered for this funding award. In addition, applicants must have passed their PhD qualifying exams and defended their dissertation prospectus. Additional information and the application form can be found on the MSP Dropbox site.
Applications will be reviewed two times every year, on October 1 and April 1.
Contributions by several of our FDRM awardees are included among the MSP Working Papers.
Since the FDRM program was initiated in 2008, the following students have received funding support for their research:
- Zachary Kopin
- MSP16, History
- FDRM awarded 2022
- PhD in progress
- Ordering the New World: A History of Law in Plymouth Colony
- Caroline Nemechek
- MSP19, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art & Archaeology
- FDRM awarded 2022
- PhD in progress
- Crafting Identities: Roman Mosaics and Social Agency
- Mariane Stanev
- MSP16, Comparative Literature
- FDRM awarded 2022
- PhD in progress
- How to Hear Noise in Times of Peace: Towards an Abolitionist Transimperial Cultural History of Pacification in the U.S. and Latin America
- Alexandra Norwood
- MSP18, Biological Anthropology
- FDRM awarded 2021
- PhD in progress
- Reconstructing South African Landscapes at the Last Glacial Maximum
- Zoe Ortiz
- MSP16, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art & Archaeology
- FDRM awarded 2021
- PhD in progress
- The Sculptures and Urban Landscape of Imperial Gabii: A City in Transition
- Grace Mahoney
- MSP16, Slavic Languages and Literature
- FDRM awarded 2019
- PhD in progress
- Behind Cream Curtains: Estates, Museums, and their Literary Interlocutors in Early-Soviet Culture, 1917-1930
- Felix Zamora-Gomez
- MSP16, Romance Languages and Literature
- FDRM awarded 2019
- PhD in progress
- Foundational Landscapes: Regimes of Visuality and the Construction of New Narratives of History and Heritage in 20th Century Spain
- Allan Martell
- MSP15, Information Science
- FDRM awarded 2018
- PhD awarded 2020
- Memory Labor as Memory Making: The Negotiation of Collective Remembering through the Production of Museum Exhibits
- Kathryn Holihan
- MSP14, German Languages and Literature
- FDRM awarded 2018
- PhD awarded 2020
- Displaying the Hygienic Body: The Popular Hygiene Exhibition in Germany, 1880-1931
- Emma Sachs
- MSP10, IPCAA
- FDRM awarded 2017
- PhD awarded 2019
- Stylistic Allusions in Campanian Wall Painting
- Alice Tsay
- MSP13, English
- FDRM awarded 2017
- PhD awarded 2017
- Matters of Taste: Digesting Difference in Victorian and Edwardian Culture
- Ben Tupper
- MSP14, Educational Studies
- FDRM awarded 2017
- Master of Arts awarded 2021
- Educational Practice and Professional Development of Docents in a Botanical Garden
- Ashley Miller
- MSP10, History of Art
- FDRM awarded 2016
- PhD awarded 2017
- Locating Heritage in French Colonial Morocco (ca. 1912-1931)
- Diana Sierra-Becerra
- MSP12, History and Women’s Studies
- FDRM awarded 2015
- PhD awarded 2017
- Without Women There is no Revolution: Gender and Social Movements in Twentieth-Century El Salvador
- Abi Celis
- MSP11, Romance Languages
- FDRM awarded 2015
- PhD awarded 2018
- Reading Museums, Imagining Communities
- Courtney Cottrell
- MSP12, Anthropology
- FDRM received 2014
- PhD awarded 2017
- Educating History: Colonial Practices of Ethnographic Museums and How Tribal Museums are Changing Them
- Justin Meyer
- MSP12, Urban Planning
- FDRM received 2014
- PhD awarded 2016
- Art Museums and their Connection to Urban Development
- Sarah Gothie
- MSP09, American Culture
- FDRM received 2013
- PhD awarded 2016
- Gardens of Innocence and Experience
- Andrew Gurstelle
- MSP09, Anthropology
- FDRM awarded 2012
- PhD awarded 2015
- Sacred Trees of the Savè Hills Cultural Landscape
- Kelly Kirby
- MSP05, Anthropology
- FDRM awarded 2012
- PhD awarded 2014
- Clothing, Kinship, and Gifts: Transnational Wardrobes in Senegal and the Diaspora
- Ricardo L. Punzalan
- MSP08, Information
- FDRM awarded 2012
- PhD awarded 2013
- Challenges and Barriers to Virtual Reunification: The Case of the Dispersed Ethnographic Images of Dean C. Worcester
- Luciana Aenasoiae
- MSP08, Anthropology and History
- FDRM awarded 2011
- PhD awarded 2016
- Activating Social Networks: Memory, Acquaintances, and Marginality in Romanian Transformation Discourses
- Morgan Daniels
- MSP06, Information Science
- FDRM awarded 2011
- PhD awarded 2014
- Museum Data Collections: From Object to Representation to the Production of New Knowledge
- Aimee Von Bokel
- MSP08, American Culture
- FDRM awarded 2011
- PhD awarded 2013
- Two Museums, One Story: The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Weeksville Heritage Center
- Clara Cahill
- MSP09, Education
- FDRM awarded 2010
- PhD awarded 2012
- Zydeco: Fostering Seamless Connections between the Classroom and the Museum
- Christopher Berk
- MSP07, Anthropology
- FDRM awarded 2010
- PhD awarded 2014
- Building Bodies in the Australian Periphery: The Enactment of Aboriginality in Tasmania
- Deirdre Hennebury
- MSP04, Architecture
- FDRM awarded 2009
- PhD awarded 2014
- An Investigation of the Urban, Architectural and Exhibit Designs of the Tate Museums, Millbank and Liverpool
- Hima Mallampati
- MSP05, IPCAA
- FDRM awarded 2008
- PhD awarded 2010
- Acquiring Antiquity: Plunder, Provenance and Policy in Museums
- Ipek Kaynar Rohloff
- MSP04, Architecture
- FDRM awarded 2008
- PhD awarded 2009
- Aligning Museum Building Projects with Institutional Goals: A Visitor-Experience Centered Approach
- Keun Young Kim
- MSP06, Anthropology
- FDRM awarded 2008
- Multiculturalism and Museums in China
- Christine DeLisle
- MSP05, History and Women’s Studies
- FDRM awarded 2008
- PhD awarded 2008
- Civilizing the Guam Museum
