Millard Meiss Publication Fund

Call for Applications

Twice a year, CAA awards grants through the Millard Meiss Publication Fund to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. Thanks to the generous bequest of the late Prof. Millard Meiss, CAA began awarding these publishing grants in 1975.

Books eligible for a Meiss grant must currently be under contract with a publisher and be on a subject in the arts or art history. Although only publishers may submit an application, authors must be current CAA members. The deadlines for the receipt of applications are April 1 and October 1 of each year. Please review the Application Guidelines and the Application Process, Schedule, and Checklist for complete instructions.

Recent Winners

The Millard Meiss Publication Fund grantees for spring 2011 are:

• Elizabeth Childs, Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti, 1800–1901, University of California Press
• Shih-shan Susan Huang, Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Medieval China, Harvard University Asia Center
• Patricia Leighten, A Politics of Form: Art, Anarchism, and Audience in Avant-Guerre Paris, University of Chicago Press
• Pamela Patton, Art of Estrangement: Redefining the Jews in Reconquest Spain, Pennsylvania State University Press
• Richard Taws, The Politics of the Provisional: Visual Culture in Revolutionary France, Pennsylvania State University Press

Read a list of all recipients of the Millard Meiss Publication Fund from 1975 to 2010. The list is alphabetized by author’s last name and includes book titles and publishers.

Questions? Please contact Alex Gershuny, CAA editorial associate, at 212-392-4424.