Professor Flanagan receives scholarship, honorary doctorate

Mary Flanagan, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, has been selected for a prestigious Getty Scholarship for 2016-17. These scholarships are awarded by the Getty Foundation, whose mission is to advance the visual arts by supporting scholars and institutions who have gained distinction in this field.

She will also receive an honorary doctorate in design from the Illinois Institute of Technology this year. The IIT once housed the Art Institute of Chicago and is now home to the Institute of Design which has long been a proponent of human-centered design, a major focus of Professor Flanagan’s work.