The National Humanities Center recently conferred Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of… The National Humanities Center recently conferred Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at Pitt, with a fellowship for the upcoming 2007-2008 academic year.

The Center, located in Durham, N.C., annually offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities.

Smith was one of 37 Fellows chosen from a pool of 400 international applicants. His major research interests include American visual cultures post-1870, contemporary world art and Australian art since settlement.

Smith’s research at the NHC will concentrate on the topic of his upcoming book “Contemporaneity,” which is scheduled for publication in late 2008 by Duke University Press. In this text Smith examines “the role of world-picturing and representations of locality within current debates in the mass media, as well as in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts,” according to a University press release.

Before commencing his fellowship, Smith will serve one term as Chercheur Invit