Professor Wins Fellowships, Grant, and Prize
Susan Verdi Webster, the Jane Williams Mahoney Professor of
Art and Art History and American Studies, was awarded the Edilia and
François-Auguste de Montêquin Senior Fellowship from the Society of
Architectural Historians and a Franklin Research Grant from the American
Philosophical Society to conduct research in Ecuador for her book on Andean
builders in colonial Quito. She was also awarded a QEP/Mellon Grant to take
three undergraduate students to Quito, Ecuador, this summer, where they will
engage in archival research on colonial art and architecture. Webster's essay,
"Masters of the Trade: Native Artisans, Guilds, and the Construction of
Colonial Quito," Journal of the Society
of Architectural Historians 68:1 (2009): 10-29, won the Harold Eugene Davis
Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Council for Latin American Studies for the best
article published in 2008-2009.
