Senior Fellows, 1980 –
2018 – 2019
Benjamin Anderson, Cornell University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2019
The Tragic Image: Fate and Form from Byzantium to the Baroque
Matthew Biro, University of Michigan
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, fall 2018
Robert Heinecken: Gender, Sexuality, and Consumption through a Photographic Lens
C. Jean Campbell, Emory University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2018 – 2019
Pisanello's Parerga: Knowledge and Imitative Practice in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Michelle Foa, Tulane University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2018 – 2019
The Matter of Degas: Art and Materiality in Later Nineteenth-Century Paris
David O'Brien, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2018 – 2019
The Cult of Napoleon in French Visual Culture, 1815–1848
J.P. Park, University of California, Riverside
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2018 – 2019
Presence in Absence: Documents, Forgeries, and Myth-Making in Early Modern Chinese Art
Jennifer Van Horn, University of Delaware
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2018 – 2019
Resisting the Art of Enslavement: Slavery and American Art, 1720–1890
2017 – 2018
Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2017 – 2018
Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna
Anne Burkus-Chasson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2017 – 2018
Engaging Artifice: Chen Hongshou (1598/1599–1652) and the Illustrated Book
Manuel Castiñeiras, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2017 – 2018
Shifting Identities and Traveling Objects: Artistic Encounters with Byzantium during the Expansion of the Crown of Aragon
Nicola Courtright, Amherst College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2018
Art and Queenly Authority: The Creation of Spaces for Marie de' Medici
Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2017 – 2018
Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art
Megan Holmes, University of Michigan
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2017 – 2018
Scratching the Surface: The Marking and Transformation of Italian Renaissance Panel Paintings, 1250–1550
Prita Meier, New York University
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2017 – 2018
The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast, 1860 to the Present
2016 – 2017
Claudia Bolgia, University of Edinburgh
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2016 – 2017
The “Long” Trecento: Rome Without the Popes, c. 1305 – 1420
Lisa Claypool, University of Alberta
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2016 – 2017
Hearing Color: Yu Fei'an's Pigeon Paintings in Modern Beijing
Sarah Elizabeth Fraser, Heidelberg University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2016 – 2017
Before the Fall of Chinoiserie
Hagi Kenaan, Tel Aviv University
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2016 – 2017
The Origins of Photography and the Future of the Image
David Young Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2016 – 2017
The Groundwork of Painting: Background, Materiality, and Composition in Italian Renaissance Art
Giancarla Periti, University of Toronto
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2016 – 2017
Correggio: Borders, Frames, and the Center of Painting
2015 – 2016
Morten Steen Hansen, Independent Scholar
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2015 – 2016
The ''Low" Style of Giovanni da San Giovanni at the Medici Court
Angela Miller, Washington University in St. Louis
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2015 – 2016
Reason, Magic, and Eros in American Art at Mid-Twentieth Century: The Artists and Writers in the Circle of Lincoln Kirstein
Mary Miller, Yale University
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2015 – 2016
The Gold Disks of the Sacred Cenote, Chichen Itza
Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2015 – 2016
The Embodiment of the Word: The Impact of European Books and Print Culture in the New World
Mauro Mussolin, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2015 – 2016
Michelangelo and Paper as Palimpsest
Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2015 – 2016
Building Race and Nation: How Slavery Influenced the Civic Architecture of Antebellum America