Marian was awarded the 2024 Edilia and François-Auguste de Montêquin Junior Scholar Fellowship in Iberian and Latin American Architecture by the Society of Architectural Historians. This award is given yearly to a junior scholar in support of travel costs for research on Spanish, Portuguese, or Ibero-American architecture. She will be using the fellowship to travel during the summer to Lisbon and to Seville in order to conduct research on two of her dissertation case studies: Baroque urban planning in Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake and comparing structures with Oporto in northern Portugal; and traveling to Seville to see the Archivo General de Indias to view primary sources on Spanish administration regarding building practices in the Philippines following the founding of Manila in 1571, leading up to the earthquakes in the region in the mid-seventeenth century. This is all in service to her dissertation regarding "Earthquake Baroque" architectural and urban planning projects around the globe.

Photo credit: Marian Berthoud, while at the Monasteiro dos Jerónimos in Lisbon, February 2023