Peter M. Lukehart
Interim Dean

Kaira M. Cabañas
Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Publications

Sarah Bohannan
Head of Operations

Gary Calcagno
Associate Projects Manager, Academic Programs and Publications

Thomas Edwards
Fellowship Officer

Valeria Federici
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Elise Ferone
Center Support Specialist

LaTisha Hall
Gallery Support Specialist

Nathalie Meza
Assistant Administrator for Budget and Accounting

Meseret Oldjira
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Erick Roberson
Housing Manager

Jen Rokoski
Communications Officer

Molly Superfine
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Matthew J. Westerby
Digital Research Officer

Olivia Yardley
Fellows Program Coordinator

Evelyn Lincoln, Brown University (emerita)
Kress-Beinecke Professor, 2025–2026

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

Christian Scheidemann, Contemporary Conservation
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2025–2026

Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, spring 2026
Aethiopians in Roman Art and Society: Race, Representation, and Social Practice

Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Igbo Ukwu to Igbo Landing: How Medieval African Objects Speak

Dario Donetti, Università di Verona
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, fall 2025
Drawing by Emulation in Renaissance Rome: A Study of the Morgan Library’s Codex Mellon

Sarah Gould, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow
Painting with Steam: Pollution and Visual Culture in 19th-Century Britain

Kristina Kleutghen, Washington University in St. Louis
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2026
Lens onto the World: Optical Devices, Art, Science, and Society in China

Megan E. O’Neil, Emory University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, fall 2025
Investigating the Market in Mesoamerican and Central American Antiquities, 1930s–1970s

David W. Penney, Washington, DC
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow
Indigenous Land/American Landscape: Indigenous Dispossession and American Landscape Painting of the Mid-19th Century

Ünver Rüstem, Johns Hopkins University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Turkish Habits: Ottoman Costume and the Art of Self-Representation

Deniz Çalışır Pençe, Istanbul Technical University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January–February 2026
Decoding Christian Visual Symbolism in the Ornamental Art of Late Ottoman Houses in Mardin, a City in the Eastern Province of the Ottoman Empire

Maria Harvey, James Madison University
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, September–October 2025
Painting Poverty for Queens and Bankers: Tino da Camaino’s Virgin and Child (1335) and Royal Poverty

Marci Kwon, Stanford University
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, January–February 2026
Making San Francisco Chinatown

Márton Orosz, Vasarely Museum
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2025
The Symbiotic Fabric of Media Art: György Kepes and the Evolution of “Interthinking” in Art and Science

Paolo Plebani, Fondazione Accademia Carrara
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, June–August 2025
Ludus Triumphorum: The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards; An Investigation into the Origin of the Cards and Their Iconography

Caroline M. Riley, University of California, Davis
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September–October 2025
Thérèse Bonney and the Power of Global Syndicated Photography

Jeff Rosen, Newberry Library
Berger Collection Educational Trust Visiting Senior Fellow in British Art, June–August 2025
Julia Margaret Cameron’s Imperial Shakespeare

Andrey Shabanov, Berlin
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, March–May 2026
Early Museums of Contemporary Art and the Shift from the Academic to the Dealer-Critic System in Europe

Maureen G. Shanahan, James Madison University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June–August 2025
Pariahs in Paris: Seeing Citizenship and the French Colonial Subject in the Metropole (1914–1940)

Mercedes Trelles, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, March–April 2026
There’s No Place Like Home: Nostalgia and Resistance in the Art from Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

Alicia Volk, University of Maryland
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, November–December 2025
The Nuclear Sublime: Japanese Art After Hiroshima

Michelle Joan Wilkinson, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, March–April 2026
Rendered Visible: The Black Architectural Imagination

Mary Morton, Department of French Paintings
Mary Cassatt: To Venture Independence

Ana Cristina Perry, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025–2027
Methods of Encounter: Raphael Montañez Ortiz and an Anti-Colonial Alternative Art

Jonah Rowen, Parsons School of Design, The New School
Berger Collection Educational Trust Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in British Art, June–August 2025
Architecture of Security: Building Across the British Black Atlantic

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

In Residence

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

Elizabeth Keto, Yale University
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2025–2027
Reconstruction’s Objects: Art in the United States South, 1865–1900

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

Not in Residence

Alec Aldrich, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2025–2026
Common Ground: Land, Landscape, and Technology in the Dutch Republic

Trevor Brandt, University of Chicago
David E. Finley Fellow, 2025–2028
Prints and Piety at the Edges of the German-Speaking World, c. 1650–1800

Hsin-Yun Cheng, University of Rochester
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2025–2026
Subjectivity in Displacement: Asian American Art and Its Discontents, 1968–2017

Harry C. H. Choi, Stanford University
Twelve-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2025–2026
Discordant Visions: The Emergence of Experimental Film in South Korea, 1964–1977

Sylvia Faichney, University of California, Santa Barbara
Wyeth Fellow, 2025–2027
The Domesticated Landscape of War: Army Family Housing, Settler Belonging, and Environmental Toxicity in the United States

Ekaterina Koposova, Yale University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2025–2027
The Flow of Art in the Franco-Dutch War

Khushmi Mehta, CUNY Graduate Center
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2025–2027
Entangled Narratives: Formations of Collectivity and Community at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (1960s–1980s)

Sharon Mizbani, Yale University
Twenty-Four-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2025–2027
Mediated Waters: Architecture of Thirst and Nourishment in Late Ottoman Istanbul

Sofia Pitouli, University of California, Los Angeles
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2025–2028
The Pindos Mountains: Land, Art, and Community (13th–15th Centuries)

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

Sinem Arcak Casale, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut (2025–2028)
Thomas E. A. Dale, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2024–2027)
Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania (2024–2027)
Jesús Escobar, Northwestern University (2023–2026), chair
Rachel Haidu, University of Rochester (2023–2026)
Nathaniel B. Jones, Washington University in St. Louis (2023–2026)
Mitchell B. Merback, Johns Hopkins University (2025–2028)

Alfred J. Acres, Georgetown University (2024–2028)
Eduardo Douglas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2024–2028)
Jean Ma, University of Hong Kong (2023–2027)

Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Curator and Head of Italian and Spanish Paintings, National Gallery of Art (2024–2027)

Luke Fidler, University of Southern California (2023–2027)
Patricia Kim, New York University (2025–2028)
Rachel Silveri, University of Florida (2023–2026)
Igor Simões, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (2023–2026)
Adedoyin Teriba, Dartmouth College (2023–2026)