Fellowship support for graduate study in architectural history, preservation, and heritage at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Location: Champaign , United States 611 E Lorado Taft Drive
The joint PhD program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign is seeking applicants to pursue study of architectural history. With a host of new faculty joining us in the past two years, we have new energy and a core of expertise in Heritage Studies and Preservation, construction history, and architecture of the Americas. You will find a creative and close-knit group of graduate students in our master’s and PhD programs and opportunities to collaborate across the university through the Humanities Research Institute, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, traveling studios, and many other resources across campus. The reinvigorated graduate minor in Heritage Studies and Preservation offers an interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to cultural heritage and the built environment and offers hands-on projects that prepare our students for a wide variety of careers in history and preservation. Our alumni hold positions of leadership in esteemed firms specializing in cultural and built heritage, in federal agencies like the U.S. National Park Service, and in academic faculty positions in design schools around the world.
We have substantial funding to fully support two new students for five years of study through the Laing Fellowship (renewable each year) as well as teaching assistantships, internships, and support for research and conference travel. Applications are due January 15, 2025. Online applications are accepted here https://arch.illinois.edu/programs-applying/ph-d/
For questions, please contact Tait Johnson, Chair of the PhD program (trjhnsn2@illinois.edu) or Kathryn Holliday, Coordinator of History + Theory + Preservation in the School of Architecture, and Chair of the graduate minor in Heritage Studies and Preservation (keh202@illinois.edu)
The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois is the oldest public architecture program in the U.S., and presented the first architecture diploma in the U.S. to Nathan Ricker in 1873, and the first diploma to a woman graduate of an architecture program in the U.S. to Mary Louisa Page in 1879.
