Emma has been awarded the 2025-2027 Kress Institutional Fellowship hosted at The Courtauld Institute of Art and The Warburg Institute! As a Kress Fellow, Emma will research and write her doctoral dissertation "Refuting the Disegno-Colore Paradigm: Underdrawing and Monochrome Painting in Renaissance Venice," which is advised by Dr. Tracy E. Cooper. This highly competitive fellowship, sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, will offer Emma the opportunity to conduct object-based and archival research on 15th- and 16th-century Venetian drawings, underdrawings, and monochromatic paintings throughout museum collections in the UK and Europe. 

Every year, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation awards six pre-doctoral fellowships at one of six European hosting institutions, and the application processes is one of the most competitive for Ph.D. art history students in the United States. Emma is the first student from Temple's Department of Art History to receive this prestigious two-year fellowship in London.