Andrew W. Mellon Professors

This two-year position was established in 1994 with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Mellon Professor is chosen to serve two consecutive academic years and is free to pursue independent research.

2020s

2022–2024
Adriana Zavala, Tufts University
Latinx Unsettling (2024)
Networks (2023)

2020–2022
Huey Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
Black Being and Modernist Iconicity (2022)
Modern Art and the Black Anthological (2021)

2010s

2018–2020
Steven Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles
Structural Adjustment: Mapping, Geography, and the Visual Cultures of Blackness (2020)
On the Underground Railroad / The Black Modernisms Seminars (2019)

2010–2012
Carmen C. Bambach, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Quest for Authenticity in Michelangelo’s Drawings (2012)

2000s

2008–2010
Miguel Falomir, Museo Nacional del Prado

2006–2008
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tulane University

2004–2006
Alexander Nagel, University of Toronto

2002–2004
Caroline Elam, The Burlington Magazine

2000–2002
Nicholas Penny, National Gallery, London

1990s

1998–2000
Malcolm Bell III, University of Virginia

1996–1998
David Freedberg, Columbia University

1994–1996
Elizabeth Cropper, Johns Hopkins University

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