Dr. Mary MOREHART Memorial Scholarship in Art History

Award descriptionA $10,000 scholarship has been made available annually through a gift from the Y. P. Heung Foundation, in memory of Dr. Mary Morehart (1924-2012), for an outstanding Ph.D. student in Art History who has achieved candidacy. Dr. Morehart was born in Beverly Hills, California and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her undergraduate degree in visual art, and her master's and doctoral degrees in art history. She joined UBC as a lecturer in 1962, and became an Associate Professor in 1969. Dr. Morehart was the Director of Graduate Studies from 1970 to 1972 in what was then known as the Department of Fine Arts, and served as Acting Head of the Department in several instances during her tenure at UBC. Her research areas included early medieval art, Anglo-Saxon art, Indian and Indonesian art, and Gandhara art. Dr. Morehart retired from UBC as an Associate Professor Emerita in 1989. The scholarship is made on the recommendation of the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.