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 Bohio 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

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

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

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

Jody Patterson, The Ohio State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2025
Modernizing the South: Robert Gwathmey and the Legacies of the New Deal in American Art of the 1940s

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

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

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)

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

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

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: The Transformation of Art in Archaic and Classical Greece
 

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

(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