PHD Candidate in Art History Megan Neely has been awarded the Willson Center Graduate Research Award for the Project Titian as Ovid: Afterlife of the Metamorphoses. The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support toward research‐related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. These expenses can include performances, installations, publications, contracts, conferences, lectures, or research visits. This award will be applied as a scholarship to support Neely’s research.

The Willson Center is a showcase for faculty innovation and achievement. It facilitates intellectual exchange with the University and the public by the encouragement of interdisciplinary activity, which extends to the sciences and other orders of knowledge. It has the capacity to offer programs in support of faculty and graduate research, and in partnership with alumni.

Megan Neely is a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia where she earned her Masters degree in 2015. Her Master's thesis addressed issues of political gift giving and copies in Federico Barocci's Aeneas Fleeing Troy. Currently, Neely's research addresses self-portraiture, poetry, and mythological punishment in sixteenth century Venetian art.