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Fellowship Opportunities

Professorships

Samuel H. Kress Professor

The National Gallery of Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts select annually a distinguished art historian as Samuel H. Kress Professor, a position created by the National Gallery, with the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, in 1965. In addition to pursuing independent research, the Kress Professor is the senior member of the Center and counsels predoctoral fellows.

Andrew W. Mellon Professor

The National Gallery of Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts select biennially a distinguished academic or museum professional as Andrew W. Mellon Professor, a position created in 1994. Scholars are chosen to serve two consecutive academic years and are free to pursue independent research.

Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor

The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professorship was established in 2002 with support from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. Safra Visiting Professors, selected by the National Gallery of Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, serve for terms of up to six months, forging connections between the research of the National Gallery's curatorial staff and that of visiting scholars at the Center. At the same time, Safra Professors advance their own research on subjects associated with the Gallery's permanent collection. They may also present seminars or curatorial lectures for graduate students and emerging scholars, including curators from other institutions.

Current Members of the Center

Samuel H. Kress Professor

Bert W. Meijer
Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut,
Florence/Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus)

Andrew W. Mellon Professor

Miguel Falomir
Museo Nacional del Prado

Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor

Roger Taylor
De Montfort University

Fifty-ninth A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts

Mary Miller
Yale University

Senior Fellowship Program

Paul Mellon Senior Fellow

Suzanne Preston Blier
Harvard University
Imaging Amazons: Dahomey Women Warriors In and Out of Africa

Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellows

Jaime Lara
Yale University
Flying Francis: Catastrophes, Insurrections, and Art in the Colonial Andes

Evonne Levy
University of Toronto
Barock: Art History and Politics from Burckhardt to Hitler, 1844 – 1945

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellows

David J. Getsy
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Abstract Bodies, Postwar Sculpture, and Designating the "Human"

Jonathan M. Reynolds
Barnard College
Allegories of Time and Space: The Visualization of Japanese Identity in Architecture, Photography, and Popular Culture

Michael J. Schreffler
Virginia Commonwealth University
Inca Baroque: Colonial Architecture and the Image of the State in Cuzco, Peru

Visiting Senior Fellowship Program

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2009

Andrew Hopkins
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Beyond Ceremony: Architectural Retreats in Early Modern Italy

Ruth E. Iskin
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Women and Modernity in Posters, 1880s – 1900s

Anna Minta
Universität Bern
Contested Historicisms: Uses and Interpretations of Architectural Formulas in Washington, DC

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2009

Giovanni Careri
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
The Ancestors of Christ: Christians and Jews in the Sistine Chapel

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow/Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, fall 2009

Margaret Haines
Villa I Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
The "Grande Sorella" of Brunelleschi's Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore: A Comparative Examination of the Structural and Administrative History of the Construction of the Dome of Saint Peter's

Postdoctoral Fellows

Hendrik W. Dey
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009 – 2010
Hunter College of the City University of New York
Architecture, Ceremony, and the Construction of Authority in Late Antiquity

Megan E. O'Neil
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009 – 2011
University of Southern California
The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures: Objects of History, Objects of Ritual

Predoctoral Fellowship Program

Predoctoral Fellows
in residence

Sinem Arcak
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2008 – 2010
[University of Minnesota]
Gifts in Motion: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1501 – 1639

Wen-shing Chou
Ittleson Fellow, 2008 – 2010
[University of California – Berkeley]
Where Our Journeys End: Visions, Exchanges, and Encounters in Early Modern Representations of Mount Wutai

Ivan Drpic
David E. Finley Fellow, 2007 – 2010
[Harvard University]
Kosmos of Verse: Art and Epigram in Late Byzantium

George F. Flaherty
Twenty-four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2008 – 2010
[University of California – Santa Barbara]
Mediating the Third Culture at Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Albert Narath
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2007 – 2010
[Columbia University]
The Baroque Effect: Architecture, History, and Politics in Austria and Germany

Andrei Pop
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2008 – 2010
[Harvard University]
Neopaganism: Henry Fuseli, Theater, and the Cultural Politics of Antiquity, 1765 – 1825

Tobias Wofford
Wyeth Fellow, 2008 – 2010
[University of California – Los Angeles]
Constructing Africa: The Visualization of Homeland and Diaspora in African-American Art of the 1960s and 1970s

Predoctoral Fellows
not in residence

Benjamin Anderson
David E. Finley Fellow, 2009 – 2012
[Bryn Mawr College]
World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages

Priyanka Basu
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2009 – 2011
[University of Southern California]
Kunstwissenschaft and the "Primitive": Excursions in the History of Art History, 1880 – 1925

Shira Brisman
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2009 – 2011
[Yale University]
The Handwritten Letter and the Work of Art in the Age of the Printing Press, 1490 – 1530

Sonja Drimmer
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2009 – 2010
[Columbia University]
The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M. 126)

Christina R. Ferando
David E. Finley Fellow, 2008–2011
[Columbia University]
Staging Neoclassicism: Exhibitions of Antonio Canova's Sculptures

Ralph Ghoche
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2009 – 2010
[Columbia University]
Ornament, Aesthetic Theory, and Expressive Signs in Second Empire French Architecture: Victor Ruprich-Robert and the Flore Ornementale

Dipti Khera
Ittleson Fellow, 2009 – 2011
[Columbia University]
Urban Imaginings between Empires: Mapping from Udaipur to Jaipur, 1707 – 1832

Beatrice Kitzinger
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2008–2011
[Harvard University]
Real Presence and Ritual Presence: The Early Medieval Liturgical Cross and Its Representations

Jason David LaFountain
Wyeth Fellow, 2009 – 2011
[Harvard University]
The Puritan Art World

Lisa Lee
Twenty-four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2009 – 2011
[Princeton University]
Sculpture's Condition/Conditions of Publicness: Isa Genzken and Thomas Hirschhorn

Jennifer M. S. Stager
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2009–2012
[University of California – Berkeley]
The Embodiment of Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad

Lacey Baradel
[University of Pennsylvania]

Joe Madura
[Emory University]

Lucy Mulroney
[University of Rochester]

Breanne Robertson
[University of Maryland]

	Fellowships Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Fellowship Opportunities \| Professorships \| Current Members of the Center Fellowship Opportunities Senior Fellowship Program Visiting Senior Fellowship Program Predoctoral Fellowship Program Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Professorships Samuel H. Kress Professor The National Gallery of Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts select annually a distinguished art historian as Samuel H. Kress Professor, a position created by the National Gallery, with the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, in 1965. In addition to pursuing independent research, the Kress Professor is the senior member of the Center and counsels predoctoral fellows. Andrew W. Mellon Professor The National Gallery of Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts select biennially a distinguished academic or museum professional as Andrew W. Mellon Professor, a position created in 1994. Scholars are chosen to serve two consecutive academic years and are free to pursue independent research. Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professorship was established in 2002 with support from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. Safra Visiting Professors, selected by the National Gallery of Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, serve for terms of up to six months, forging connections between the research of the National Gallery's curatorial staff and that of visiting scholars at the Center. At the same time, Safra Professors advance their own research on subjects associated with the Gallery's permanent collection. They may also present seminars or curatorial lectures for graduate students and emerging scholars, including curators from other institutions. Current Members of the Center Samuel H. Kress Professor Bert W. Meijer Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence/Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus) Andrew W. Mellon Professor Miguel Falomir Museo Nacional del Prado Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor Roger Taylor De Montfort University Fifty-ninth A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts Mary Miller Yale University Senior Fellowship Program Paul Mellon Senior Fellow Suzanne Preston Blier Harvard University Imaging Amazons: Dahomey Women Warriors In and Out of Africa Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellows Jaime Lara Yale University Flying Francis: Catastrophes, Insurrections, and Art in the Colonial Andes Evonne Levy University of Toronto Barock: Art History and Politics from Burckhardt to Hitler, 1844 – 1945 Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellows David J. Getsy School of the Art Institute of Chicago Abstract Bodies, Postwar Sculpture, and Designating the "Human" Jonathan M. Reynolds Barnard College Allegories of Time and Space: The Visualization of Japanese Identity in Architecture, Photography, and Popular Culture Michael J. Schreffler Virginia Commonwealth University Inca Baroque: Colonial Architecture and the Image of the State in Cuzco, Peru Visiting Senior Fellowship Program Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2009 Andrew Hopkins Università degli Studi dell'Aquila Beyond Ceremony: Architectural Retreats in Early Modern Italy Ruth E. Iskin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Women and Modernity in Posters, 1880s – 1900s Anna Minta Universität Bern Contested Historicisms: Uses and Interpretations of Architectural Formulas in Washington, DC Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2009 Giovanni Careri École des hautes études en sciences sociales The Ancestors of Christ: Christians and Jews in the Sistine Chapel Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow/Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, fall 2009 Margaret Haines Villa I Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies The "Grande Sorella" of Brunelleschi's Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore: A Comparative Examination of the Structural and Administrative History of the Construction of the Dome of Saint Peter's Postdoctoral Fellows Hendrik W. Dey A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009 – 2010 Hunter College of the City University of New York Architecture, Ceremony, and the Construction of Authority in Late Antiquity Megan E. O'Neil A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009 – 2011 University of Southern California The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures: Objects of History, Objects of Ritual Predoctoral Fellowship Program Predoctoral Fellows in residence Sinem Arcak Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2008 – 2010 [University of Minnesota] Gifts in Motion: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1501 – 1639 Wen-shing Chou Ittleson Fellow, 2008 – 2010 [University of California – Berkeley] Where Our Journeys End: Visions, Exchanges, and Encounters in Early Modern Representations of Mount Wutai Ivan Drpic David E. Finley Fellow, 2007 – 2010 [Harvard University] Kosmos of Verse: Art and Epigram in Late Byzantium George F. Flaherty Twenty-four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2008 – 2010 [University of California – Santa Barbara] Mediating the Third Culture at Tlatelolco, Mexico City Albert Narath Paul Mellon Fellow, 2007 – 2010 [Columbia University] The Baroque Effect: Architecture, History, and Politics in Austria and Germany Andrei Pop Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2008 – 2010 [Harvard University] Neopaganism: Henry Fuseli, Theater, and the Cultural Politics of Antiquity, 1765 – 1825 Tobias Wofford Wyeth Fellow, 2008 – 2010 [University of California – Los Angeles] Constructing Africa: The Visualization of Homeland and Diaspora in African-American Art of the 1960s and 1970s Predoctoral Fellows not in residence Benjamin Anderson David E. Finley Fellow, 2009 – 2012 [Bryn Mawr College] World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages Priyanka Basu Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2009 – 2011 [University of Southern California] Kunstwissenschaft and the "Primitive": Excursions in the History of Art History, 1880 – 1925 Shira Brisman Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2009 – 2011 [Yale University] The Handwritten Letter and the Work of Art in the Age of the Printing Press, 1490 – 1530 Sonja Drimmer Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2009 – 2010 [Columbia University] The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M. 126) Christina R. Ferando David E. Finley Fellow, 2008–2011 [Columbia University] Staging Neoclassicism: Exhibitions of Antonio Canova's Sculptures Ralph Ghoche Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2009 – 2010 [Columbia University] Ornament, Aesthetic Theory, and Expressive Signs in Second Empire French Architecture: Victor Ruprich-Robert and the Flore Ornementale Dipti Khera Ittleson Fellow, 2009 – 2011 [Columbia University] Urban Imaginings between Empires: Mapping from Udaipur to Jaipur, 1707 – 1832 Beatrice Kitzinger Paul Mellon Fellow, 2008–2011 [Harvard University] Real Presence and Ritual Presence: The Early Medieval Liturgical Cross and Its Representations Jason David LaFountain Wyeth Fellow, 2009 – 2011 [Harvard University] The Puritan Art World Lisa Lee Twenty-four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2009 – 2011 [Princeton University] Sculpture's Condition/Conditions of Publicness: Isa Genzken and Thomas Hirschhorn Jennifer M. S. Stager Paul Mellon Fellow, 2009–2012 [University of California – Berkeley] The Embodiment of Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad Lacey Baradel [University of Pennsylvania] Joe Madura [Emory University] Lucy Mulroney [University of Rochester] Breanne Robertson [University of Maryland]
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