Ithaca College

Jennifer Germann, Associate Professor in Art History, has been awarded an NEH Summer Stipend for 2017. Her project is called “A Study of the Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, an 18th-century British Artwork.” 

The Summer Stipend supports continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. Professor Germann will use these funds to travel to the United Kingdom to do research into Kenwood House, the family villa of William Murray, the Earl of Mansfield and Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain and where Dido Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray were raised. She will consult the archives at Kenwood House and the extant drawings of Kenwood House at Sir John Soane's Museum in London.