Awards and Achievements
(Image: Art History 2019 Honors recipients, Montgomery Nelson, Ridley Rochell, Kathryn Rothstein & Yiran Chi with Prof. Clayson.)
Each year, the department awards several prizes, including the newly named David Van Zanten Prize in Advanced Art Historical Writing, the Warnock Prize for Art Historical Writing, Outstanding Junior, and the J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis.
2023
Warnock Prize for Outstanding Junior
Madie Giaconia
David Van Zanten Prize in Advanced Art Historical Writing
Sadie Bernstein
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Sean Liu
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Grace Wu
Past recipients
2022
Warnock Prize for Outstanding Junior
Vitoria Faria
David Van Zanten Prize in Advanced Art Historical Writing
Helen Bradshaw
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Grace Wu
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Bailey Pekar
2021
Warnock Prize for Outstanding Junior
Evangeline Bambakidis and Bailey Pekar
David Van Zanten Prize in Advanced Art Historical Writing
Evangeline Bambakidis
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Madie Giaconia
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Rory Tsapayi
Phi Beta Kappa
Fiona Asokacitta and Katharina Nachtigall
2020
Warnock Prize for Outstanding Junior
Fiona Asokacitta and Brianna Heath
David Van Zanten Prize in Advanced Art Historical Writing
Emily Andrey
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Yi-Tse Chen
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Meghan Considine
Phi Beta Kappa
Luke Cimarusti, Elizabeth Hawley, April Peng and Louis Tauber
2019
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Lois Biggs and Nicholas Liou
David Van Zanten Prize in Advanced Art Historical Writing
Meghan Considine
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Alfonso Pacheco
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Yiran Chi and Kathryn Rothstein
2018
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Kathryn Rothstein
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Sarayah Wright and Luke Cimarusti
2017
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Yucheng Zhu
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Steven Norwalk and Emily Moon
2016
Outstanding Junior Art History Major PrizeLinnea Hodge and Julia Poppy
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Will Kirkland
2015
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Sinéad López and Alexander Lordahl
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Oona Ahn
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Mariam Al Askari and Perry Nigro
2014
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Claire Dillon, "Empty Space and Identity Politics in the Work of Félix González-Torres: Negation, Visual Rhyme, and Creative Reinterpretation"
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Sinéad López
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Peter Adams
2013
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Jasmine Jennings, "The Problem in Room 24: Racial Constructions and the Making of National Identity in the National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina"
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Hannah Kleinman
Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing
Sinéad López
2012
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Matthew Kluk, "The Maison Cubiste: Modernist Fantasy and Bourgeois Reality"
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Sophie Jenkins
Best 200-Level Paper Prize
Jessica Bickel-Barlow
2011
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Kristin Leasia, "The Emergence of Nurse and Guardian Images in Ancient Egyptian Royal Funerary Art: Some Connections to Dynasty 18 Pharaonic Legitimacy and the Hathor Cult"
and
Sophia Mancall-Bitel, "In Search of Los Angeles: Myths, Movies and Maps in the Work of Ed Ruscha"
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Matthew Kluk
Kerry Bickford
Best 200-Level Paper Prize
Ellie (Jennifer) Graham
2010
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Elliot Reichert, "Unretractable Social Marks: The Critical Spatial Practice of Street Art"
and
Jennifer Wong, "Reinventing the Ancient: the Transforming Female Figures of the Twentieth Century Painter Zhang Daqian"
2009
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Jessica Davidson, "Candidates for Admiration: Identity and Display in the Art of London's Public Parks, 1750 - 1800"
and
Viktoriya Kamara, "Extending Discourse on Soviet Art 1920's -1930's: The Career of Ekaterina Zernova"
2007
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Amanda Wasielewski, "From the Urban Dérive to the Internet Drive: Deterritorialized Capitalism in the Guise of a Digital Utopia"
2005
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Darrah Doyle, "HIV/AIDS Is Our Concern: An Examination of a Work by Artists of the Chivirika Self-Help Embroidery Project"
and
Lauren Wright, "Time-based to Time-bearing: Temporality in Recent Film and Video Art"
2004
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Alison Goldstein, "Dürer versus Raimondi: A Claim of Ownership"
2003
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
David Peterson, "National Endowment for the Arts v. Karen Finley: Understanding U.S. Government Arts Funding Amidst Controversy, Political Warfare and Ideological Clashes"
2002
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Dana Atlagic, "Perpetuating Inequalities: A Look at Happenings Through Gendered Criticism"
2001
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Brook Crowley, "Compassionate Orientalism: Théodore Chassériau's Arab Horsemen Carrying away Their Dead, 1850"
1999
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Anju Shivaram,"'Imagined' Femininities: The Chinese Calendar Woman as National Symbol"
and
David Mullet, "Etats Secondaires in Czech Symbolist and Surrealist Art"