Student Spotlight: Marie-Agathe Simonetti Awarded DFK Research Grant

Marie-Agathe Simonetti was awarded the DFK research grant for her dissertation “Photography in Indochina: Politics, Press and War in Saigon, Hanoi, and Paris, 1897–1954.” The German Center for Art History in Paris will be funding her research in France. For her project focusing on Vietnamese and French photography during France’s colonial empire, she will go the archives in Paris and Aix-en-Provence from February to May 2022. In addition to her research, Marie-Agathe will participate in the German Center for Art History’s activities and will discuss and present her research project within the institute.