SAAH PhD candidate Lauren Freese receives National Committee for the History of Art Fellowship

Friday, August 19, 2016

Lauren Freese
Lauren Freese

Art & Art History PhD candidate Lauren Freese has received a National Committee for the History of Art Fellowship, which provides travel support to attend the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) World Congress of Art History. The Congress will be hosted by the Chinese CIHA Committee in Beijing on Sept 15-22.

The National Committee for the History of Art (NCHA) is the U.S. affiliate of the international community of art historians, the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art. The NCHA works to develop global networks of art historians, particularly in areas of the world in which art history is an emerging discipline. It brings together art historians from around the globe to help forge communities of scholars and discuss the discipline, according to its website.

Freese is a doctoral student in the School of Art & Art History, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.