Fund: Françoise Forster-Hahn Graduate Travel Award in the History of Art Department Endowed Fund Department: History of Art Dept D01034 Purpose: Graduate Student Support This fund will provide support to graduate students in the History of Art Department with travel awards for the purpose of dissertation or MA-thesis travel. The award will give students the opportunity to visit primary works of art, archives and other research resources. Eff. 12/31/2022 - Converted to endowment #600512. Background: Professor Forster-Hahn has long been a pillar of the UCR arts community and the History of Art Department. After receiving her PhD from the University of Bonn in Germany, she came to the United States, working first in the Yale University Art Gallery and then at Stanford University, where she was both chief curator at the university museum and lecturer in the art department. After a year as a lecturer at UC Berkeley, she came to Riverside in 1975, and remained until her retirement in 2011, retiring as Distinguished Professor and a widely admired authority on art history from the later eighteenthto twentieth centuries. In particular, her studies of Adolph Menzel and Max Beckmann are foundational. Even after becoming a permanent member of the UCR faculty, Professor Forster-Hahn developed her ties to the museum world. At the same time, she was a leader in the new field of the history of dispplay, and developed a seminar on the history and ideology of the museumthat was a touchstone for many of the department's graduate students. She continues to pursue this theme in her current project on the Centennial Exhibition of 1906 in Berlin and its importance for the formation of modernism as a field of study. Forster-Hahn has a deep belied that there is no substitute in research for engagement with the real thing. Throughout her career she has encouraged students to study works in depth and on site, and to pursue archival and museuological work far from home. Through this travel, Forster-Hahn believes that it is also a way to become knowledgeable about the world and to situate the thesis project within the biggest possible cultural context, which must be experienced firsthand. As a result, friends and colleagues of Professor Forster-Hahn have pledged to donate the necessary funds to create an endowment to honor Forster-Hahn's commitment to support thorough and noteworthy research by giving students the opportunity to travel and have hands-on and in-person experiences with research materials. The fund will allow the department to support graduate students with travel awards for the purpose of MA thesis or doctoral dissertation research. General Purpose: This Fund shall be used to provide support for graduate students in the History of Art Department with travel awards for the purpose of dissertation or MA-thesis travel. The award will give students the opportunity to visit primary works of art, archives and other research resources. Criteria and Selection Process: This Fund will be at the direction of the Chair of the History of Art Department or their designee. Each winter, graduate students majoring in the History of Art will be asked to submit a 500-word essay on why they believe they would benefit from receiving this award. Under the direction of the Chair of History of Art Department or their designee, a committee of at least three art history faculty will be asked to review these essays and, based on the content of these essays and general knowledge of the applicants, select at least one annual recipient. As a means of accountability, each award recipient will be asked to submit a synopsis of their travels to the Chair of the History of Art Department upon completion of travel. In years where there are no sufficient strong candidates, awards will be held until the following year.