About The Fellowship

SAH’s Study Tours are open to SAH members. The Study Tour blog is written by Study Tour Fellows, who are current PhD students and emerging professionals. To apply to be a Study Tour Fellow, please visit our website.

2011 Fellows	Robert Wiesenberger, Columbia University on the Maison de Verre (Saturday) Robert is a rising second year doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. His focus is on the history and theory of 20th century architecture and design, primarily in pre-war Germany. Visiting the Maison de Verre was especially exciting for him given his recent interest in 20th century architectural exchanges between Germany and France, and on the glass architecture of the avant-garde. Robert’s masters thesis examined Herbert Bayer’s exhibition design practice, and in particular his collaboration with László Moholy-Nagy on the 1931 Building Workers Union exhibition in Berlin. Robert holds a B.A. in History and Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago. He has worked at the design firms MetaDesign and Ammunition in San Francisco, and as an intern in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA. He is the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education.
	Marieke Jaenen,  Artesis University College – University Antwerp on the Maison de Verre (Sunday) Marieke Jaenen is a doctoral student at the Artesis University College Antwerp and the University Antwerp in Belgium. Her PhD-research focuses on interior finish work of inter war dwellings in Antwerp, more specific on het use of materials and colors. Next to this research she is also a professor at the Master on Conservation of Monuments and Sites at the Artesis University College Antwerp. Here she teaches architectural history and is responsible for the interdisciplinary projects. After getting master’s degree in Art Science and Archeology, Conservation of Monuments and Sites and Culture Science, she worked as an independent architectural historian and as scientific researcher.
2010 Fellows	Amanda Delorey, Courtauld Institute of Art on Mexico City Modernism Amanda Delorey is currently working on her PhD dissertation “The People v the State: Housing Architecture in Mexico City from Modernism to Contemporary Practices” at the Courtauld Institute of Art, funded by the Garfield Weston Foundation. She received her Master’s degree in Cultural Studies and Critical theory from McMaster University and a BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Studies from the Ontario College of Art and Design.
	Nathaniel Walker, Brown University on Bauhaus 1919-1933 Workshops for Modernity Nathaniel R. Walker is a graduate student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Brown University.  He received his BA in History from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and his MA in Architectural History from the Savannah College of Art and Design, where his Master’s Thesis, entitled “Savannah’s Lost Squares: The Fight Over Savannah’s Town Plan and the Ascendance of Automobility,” received the Outstanding Graduate Thesis Document Award in 2007.  Between his time in Savannah and his enrollment at Brown, Nathaniel worked very happily at Mitchell/Matthews Architects & Planners in Charlottesville, Virginia.  With his Ph.D. studies, Nathaniel is working to build upon and broaden the scope of a number of the questions he raised while exploring competing conceptions of “Modernity” in 1920s Savannah.  Specifically, he is interested in Utopian design and planning in the age of self-conscious “progress” and technological exhibitionism in art, literature, politics, and architecture.
2009 Fellows	Martin Holland, and additional fellowship awardees Grace Dubinson and Carey Shellman on Civil Rights Memorials Catherine C. Boland on the Legacy of D. H. Burnham Mrinalini Rajagopalan on the MOMA Study Day on Prefabricated Housing
2008 Fellows	Mia Reinoso Genoni on the Naples tour Baird Jarman on the tour of Estates of Chicago’s North Shore
	Amber Wiley on the Louis Kahn tour Amber is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the George Washington University specializing in architectural history, urban history, and African-American cultural studies. She is the recipient of the 2010 AERA Minority Fellowship in Education Research and the 2008 SRI Foundation Research Fellow Scholarship for her dissertation “Concrete Solutions: Architecture of Public High Schools During the ‘Urban Crisis’” (Richard Longstreth, committee chair). She received her BA in Architecture from Yale University and her Master’s in Architectural History and Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of Virginia. Amber sits on the board of directors of the Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Yale Black Alumni Association.www.ambernwiley.com
	Jennifer Tobias on the Kahn tour