Leadership
Steven Nelson, Dean
Peter M. Lukehart, Associate Dean for Fellowships and Fellows Programs
Kaira M. Cabañas, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Publications
Sarah Bohannan, Center Administrator

Staff
Sarah Battle, Associate Projects Manager, Academic Programs and Publications (to October 2024)
Gary Calcagno, Associate Projects Manager, Academic Programs and Publications
Thomas Edwards, Fellowship Officer
Valeria Federici, Postdoctoral Research Associate (from August 2024)
Elise Ferone, Center Support Specialist
Gloria de Liberali, Postdoctoral Research Associate (to July 2024)
Nathalie Meza, Assistant Administrator for Budget and Accounting
Meseret Oldjira, Postdoctoral Research Associate (from January 2025)
Jen Rokoski, Communications Officer
Molly Superfine, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Matthew J. Westerby, Digital Research Officer
Olivia Yardley, Fellows Program Coordinator
Fulvia Zaninelli, Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (to August 2024)

Professors
Mary Beard, University of Cambridge (emerita)
Kress-Beinecke Professor, 2024–2025

Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2024–2026

Senior Fellows
Michele Greet, George Mason University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Abstraction in the Andes, 1950–1970

Jason Hill, University of Delaware
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Police Media and Documentary Photography in 20th-Century America

Paul Niell, Florida State University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Thatched Dwellings, Urban Lives: The Bohío and the City in the Late Spanish Colonial Caribbean

Amara Solari, Pennsylvania State University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Missions Impossible: The Art of Franciscan Failure and Puebloan Perseverance in Nuevo México

Abbey Stockstill, Southern Methodist University
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow
Color through the Seven Spheres: Materiality and Vision in Medieval Islamic Architecture

Chang Tan, Pennsylvania State University
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow
Network Moderns: Vernacular Photography and Image-Making in Global Chinas

Visiting Guest Artist
Dario Robleto, Houston, TX
Visiting Guest Artist, September–November 2024 
Until We Are Forged: Hymns for the Elements 

Visiting Senior Fellows
Babatunde Adewumi Adedokun, Federal College of Education, Yola
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, September–October 2024
Sociocultural Narratives of Clothes and Costumes among the Mbula People of Northeastern Nigeria

Maria Berbara, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, November–December 2024
“They live one hundred and fifty years”: The Trope of Longevity and Epidemic Diseases across the Early Modern Atlantic

Ragnhild Bø, University of Oslo
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, June–August 2024
Christ Appearing to His Mother in Late Medieval Art: Visualizing the Resurrection across Convents, Parishes, and Courts

Robert J. Foster, University of Rochester
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March–April 2025
Tracking “Primitive Art” from New Guinea: How Morton D. May Assembled Department Store Exhibition Sales for Middlebrow America (A Detective Story)

Josh T Franco, College Park, MD
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, January–February 2025
Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard

Elizabeth Harney, University of Toronto
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, September–October 2024
The “Retromodern”: Art, Africa, and the Time of the Contemporary

Taylor Johnson, Takoma Park, MD
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, March–April 2025
Free and Open to the Public

Hamid Keshmirshekan, SOAS, University of London
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January–February 2025
Retracing Truth: The Haunting Presence of History in Contemporary Art Practices in Iran

Alexander Nagel, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November–December 2024
The Last of the Qataban: Investigating Modern Legacies of Ancient South Arabian Art

Jennifer Pruitt, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2024
Inheriting an Islamic Golden Age: Globalism, National Identity, and Islamic Art History in the Architecture of the Arabian Gulf

Rashmi Viswanathan, University of Hartford
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2024
Producing the Global Modern: Private Politics of Cultural Ambassadorship

Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Fellows
Michelle Bird, Department of French Paintings
Research for an Exhibition Featuring Contemporary Artists Born and Trained in Cuba

Sarah Cash, Department of American and British Paintings
John Singer Sargent’s Stereographs Rediscovered

Postdoctoral Fellows (in Residence)
Maria Gabriella Matarazzo
Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023–2025
Beyond “Buon Fresco”: Experimenting with Oil in Wall Painting, c. 1500–1700

Hugo Shakeshaft
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024–2026
Lifelikeness: The Transformation of Art in Archaic and Classical Greece

Postdoctoral Fellows (Not in Residence)
Anni Pullagura, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
Center/YCBA Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2023–October 2024
Forms of Feeling: Collecting the Nation for Contemporary Cultural Institutions

Predoctoral Dissertation Fellows (in Residence)
David P. Bardeen, University of California, Los Angeles
David E. Finley Fellow, 2022–2025
Arboreal Formations: The Dynamics of Wood in Italian Intarsia and Painting, 1450–1525

Robyn A. Barrow, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2022–2025
Tracking North: Art, Ecology, and Exchange in the Medieval Nordic World

Chaeri Lee, Indiana University
Twenty-Four-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2023–2025
Āthār: Visualizing Vestiges of Time in Late 19th-Century Iran

James H. Miller, Princeton University
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2023–2025
Fossils for a Future Time: David Smith and the Sculpting of Traces

Celia Rodríguez Tejuca, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2023–2025
From the Ground Up: Picturing Scientific Knowledge in the Late 18th-Century Spanish Americas

Julia Silverman, Harvard University
Wyeth Fellow, 2023–2025
Unmaking Tradition: Native Designers and the Representation of Knowledge during the “Indian New Deal”

Wenjie Su, Princeton University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2023–2025
Simulating Time: Cosmological Analogies, Cross-Cultural Similes, and the Transmission of Clockwork Objects between Early Modern Europe and China

Predoctoral Dissertation Fellows (Not in Residence)
Abigail Berry, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2024–2025
Brick Gothic Architecture and the Hanseatic League: Materials, Networks, and Urban Identity, 1250–1500

Alice Casalini, University of Chicago
Twenty-Four-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2024–2026
Paradigms of Beholding: The Architecture of Religious Experience in Gandhāra

Rowanne Dean, University of Chicago
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2023–2026
Valuing Virtuosity: Goldsmiths’ Work in Northwestern Europe, c. 1350–1500

Ryan Eisenman, University of Pennsylvania
David E. Finley Fellow, 2023–2026
The Limoges Champlevé Enamel Industry, c. 1180–1280

Virginia Girard, Columbia University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2024–2026
Geomyths in Early Netherlandish Landscapes, 1500–1600

Nathalie Miraval, Yale University
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2024–2026
Sacred Subversions: Martha, Monsters, and Domestic Devotion in the Afro-Iberian Atlantic

Isabella Shey Robbins, Yale University
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2024–2026
Relationality and Being: Indigeneity, Space, and Transit in Global Contemporary Art

Soyoon Ryu, University of Michigan
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2024–2025
We Live Here: Artistic Collectivization and Inhabitation on the Outskirts in East and Southeast Asia, 1972–1992

Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara
Wyeth Fellow, 2024–2026
Build/Live/Work: Artist-Built Environments and the Expanded Vernacular in the 20th Century

Emily Whitehead, Emory University
David E. Finley Fellow, 2024–2027
Variance and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Coffins at a Time of Standardization and Homogeneity

Margaret Wilson, The Ohio State University
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2024–2027
Making and Breaking Enclosure: The Movement of Art through Late Medieval Convents

Hamed Yousefi, Northwestern University
Twelve-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2024–2025
How Modern Art Became Islamic: Imagining God and Man between Iran’s Two Revolutions (1906–1979)

Howard University Undergraduate Interns
Jada Brooks, 2023–2025
Clay Cauley, 2023–2025
Aletheia Couts, 2023–2025
Miles Kenyan Stewart, 2023–2025
Elroi Yonatan, 2023–2025

Board of Advisors
Marisa Bass, Yale University (chair)
September 2022–August 2025

Valerie Cassel Oliver, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
September 2022–August 2025

Thomas E. A. Dale, University of Wisconsin, Madison
September 2024–August 2027

Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania
September 2024–August 2027

Jesús Escobar, Northwestern University
September 2023–August 2026

Rachel Haidu, University of Rochester
September 2023–August 2026

Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Rome
September 2022–August 2025

Nathaniel B. Jones, Washington University in St. Louis
September 2023–August 2026

Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Committee
Alfred Acres, Georgetown University
November 2024–February 2028

Eduardo Douglas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
November 2024–February 2028

Jean Ma, University of Hong Kong
November 2023–February 2027

Curatorial Liaison
Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Curator and Head of Italian and Spanish Paintings, National Gallery of Art
September 2024–August 2027

Art & Editorial Advisory Board
Luke Fidler, University of Southern California
September 2023–August 2026

Rachel Silveri, University of Florida
September 2023–August 2026

Igor Simões, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul
September 2023–August 2026

Adedoyin Teriba, Dartmouth College
September 2023–August 2026