Doctor Kate Kangaslahti
Nationality: Australia
Year: 2003
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
I received a Wingate Scholarship from 2003-2005 (under my maiden name of Lonie) to help me complete my thesis in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, the final title of which was "The Nation of Display: Re-presentations of French Art, Tradition and Identity in 1937". I graduated with my PhD in October in 2005. My husband and I (we were married in September 2005, and graduated together from Cambridge) moved to Singapore in February 2006 and we both now work at Nanyang Techonological University, where I am an Assistant Professor in Art History at the School of Art, Design and Media. My current research further develops the work that I did as part of my PhD, with support from Wingate, broadly speaking, looking at the relationship between art and politics in France during the interwar period. I am particularly interested in the phenomenon of the School of Paris and the situation of foreign artists practising in France between the First and Second World Wars, a subject on which I have written in two forthcoming volumes.
I was a most grateful recipient of a Wingate Scholarship, and am proud to be among its 800 scholars. Many congratulations to the Foundation on the twentieth anniversary of its Scholarships.