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Fellowships
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Fellowship Opportunities | Professorships | Current Members of the Center

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

Julian Gardner
University of Warwick (emeritus)

Andrew W. Mellon Professor

Carmen C. Bambach
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors, fall 2011

Marc Fumaroli
Collège de France

Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Université Paris–Sorbonne

Sixty-First A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, spring 2012

Craig Clunas
University of Oxford

Senior Fellowship Program

Paul Mellon Senior Fellows

Sonya S. Lee
University of Southern California
Between Culture and Nature: Cave Temples of Sichuan

Maria Cristina Wolff de Carvalho
Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo
The Landscape Art of William John Burchell

Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellows

Estelle Lingo
University of Washington, Seattle
Francesco Mochi and the Edge of Tradition

Amy Powell
University of California, Irvine
The Whitewashed Image: Iconoclasm and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscapes

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellows

David E. James
University of Southern California
The Rock 'n' Roll Musical

Jennifer Purtle
University of Toronto
Forms of Cosmopolitanism in the Sino-Mongol City

Visiting Senior Fellowship Program

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, spring 2011

Frances Gage
Buffalo State College, State University of New York
Visual Cures: Painting as Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Italy

D. Fairchild Ruggles
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Imagining the Alhambra

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2011

Nicholas Adams
Vassar College
Architecture and the Modern Rule of Law: A Study of Gunnar Asplund's Courthouse Extension, Gothenburg, 1934–1937

Patrizia Tosini
Università degli studi di Cassino
From the Project to the Finished Work: Painting, Drawings, and Decoration in Rome during the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, spring 2011

Laura Camille Agoston
Trinity University
Absent Sovereign: Michelangelo's Funeral at San Lorenzo

Elisabeth Oy-Marra
Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Annotated Bilingual Edition of Giovan Pietro Bellori's Le Vite de' pittori scultori et architetti moderni, Rome 1672, Including the Later Lives of Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratta

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2011

Louisa C. Matthew
Union College
The Material Renaissance: A History of Colorants in Renaissance Venice

Monika Schmitter
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Portrait of a Collector: Andrea Odoni in His Sixteenth-Century Venetian Palace

Postdoctoral Fellows

Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010–2012
Vitruvius on Display: Domestic Decor and Roman Self-Fashioning at the End of the Republic

Lukasz Stanek
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2013
Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, Zürich
Henri Lefebvre's "Vers une architecture de la jouissance" (1973): A Manifesto of Architectural
Research

Predoctoral Fellowship Program

Predoctoral Fellows
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

Dana E. Byrd
Wyeth Fellow, 2010–2012
[Yale University]
Reconstructions: The Visual and Material Cultures of the Plantation, 1861–1877

Jason Di Resta
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2010–2012
[The Johns Hopkins University]
"Crudeliter accentuando eructant": Rethinking Center and Periphery in the Art of Giovanni
Antonio da Pordenone

Razan Francis
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2010–2012
[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Secrets of the Arts: Enlightenment Spain's Contested Islamic Craft Heritage

Di Yin Lu
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2010–2012
[Harvard University]
Seizing Civilization: Antiquities in Shanghai's Custody, 1949–1996

Anna Lise Seastrand
Ittleson Fellow, 2010–2012
[Columbia University]
Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Mural Paintings, 1500–1800

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

Predoctoral Fellows
not in residence

Susanna Berger
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2011–2013
[University of Cambridge]
The Art of Philosophy: Early Modern Aristotelian Thesis Prints and Illustrated Student
Notebooks

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
David E. Finley Fellow, 2011–2014
[Princeton University]
"Canonical Views": The Disposition of Figures in Modern Art, 1886–1912

Meredith Gamer
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2010–2013
[Yale University]
Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain's Early Modern Eighteenth Century

Marius Bratsberg Hauknes
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2011–2013
[Princeton University]
Imago, Figura, Scientia: The Image of the World in Thirteenth-Century Rome

Jessica L. Horton
Wyeth Fellow, 2011–2013
[University of Rochester]
Places to Stand: History, Memory, and Location in Native American Art

Nathaniel B. Jones
David E. Finley Fellow, 2010–2013
[Yale University]
Nobilibus pinacothecae sunt faciundae: The Inception of the Fictive Picture Gallery in Augustan Rome

Joshua O'Driscoll
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2011–2014
[Harvard University]
Picti Imaginativo: Image and Inscription in Ottonian Manuscripts from Cologne

Fredo Rivera
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2011–2013
[Duke University]
Revolutionizing Modernities: Visualizing Utopia in 1960s Havana, Cuba

Maggie Taft
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2011–2012
[University of Chicago]
Making Danish Modern, 1945–1960

Noa Turel
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2011–2012
[University of California, Santa Barbara]
Life to Likeness: Painting and Spectacles au vif in the Burgundian State

Yanfei Zhu
Ittleson Fellow, 2011–2013
[The Ohio State University]
Transtemporal and Cross-Border Alignment: The Rediscovery of Yimin Ink Painting in Modern China, 1900–1949

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

Laura Turner Igoe
[Tyler School of Art, Temple University]

Erin Leary
[University of Rochester]

Erica North Morawski
[University of Illinois at Chicago]