Jenny Tang '13 Awarded DAAD Graduate Scholarship

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., April 18, 2013—Williams College senior Jenny Tang of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Graduate Scholarship. The DAAD gives highly qualified students the opportunity to complete an independent study in Germany or enroll in a full master’s degree program at a German university.

Tang will spend a year on a research project at Humboldt University in Berlin titled “The Politics of Documenta 5: Harald Szeeman and the Exhibition of Social Critique,” with Professor Charlotte Konk in the Department of Art and Visual History. Szeeman curated Documenta 5, an international exhibition of contemporary art. The project will be about theories of visual display and exhibition theory. Tang also plans to take courses at the university.

Tang spent Winter Study of her junior year in Berlin researching Holocaust memorials. She also studied abroad in London in fall of her junior year at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Tang has spent summers interning at Art.sy and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

At Williams, Tang is an art history major. She has served as a teaching assistant in the art history department, student trustee on the Gaudino Board, and co-president of the Williams College Museum of Art Student Advisory Committee.

Tang has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Beinecke Memorial Scholarship, Ruchman Fellowship, Department of Art Class of 1960s Scholars Scholarship, Herbert H. Lehman Scholarship, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, Allison Davis Research Fellowship, Class of 1945 World Travel Fellowship, and Richard Ager Newhall Book Prize in European History.

Tang plans to pursue graduate work in media and film studies and critical theory after her year in Berlin.

The DAAD is the German national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. It offers both programs and funding for students, faculty, researchers, and others in higher education, providing financial support to more than 55,000 individuals each year.

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