Senior Fellows

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

Visiting Senior Fellows

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

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

Andrey Shabanov, Berlin
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, November–December 2025
Early Museums of Contemporary Art and the Shift from the Academic to the Dealer-Critic System in Europe

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

Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Fellows

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

Elisabeth Narkin, Department of Image Collections
Building Dynasty: Architecture and the French Royal Family Before Versailles

Maggie Wessling, Department of Photograph Conservation
Oral History and Genealogy of Master Photograph Printers

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

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

 

Predoctoral Dissertation Fellows

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