Visiting Senior Fellows, 2016–2020
A list of former Visiting Senior Fellows at the Center and their research projects.
2019–2020
Piers Alan Baker-Bates, The Open University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2019
“In the Spanish Fashion”: Italian Material Culture and Spanish Devotional Practice in the Sixteenth Century
Henry John Drewal, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 2–February 29, 2020
Péter Farbaky, Budapest History Museum
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2019
The Role of John of Aragon (1456–1485) in the Art Patronage of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary
Karen Lang, University of Oxford
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2019
Phillip Guston and the Allegory of Painting
Amy F. Ogata, University of Southern California
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 2–February 29, 2020
Metal, the Metallic, and the Making of Modern France
April Oettinger, Goucher College
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2019
Animating Nature: Lorenzo Lotto and the Sublime Turn in Venetian Landscape Art, 1500–1550
John Ott, James Madison University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1 – June 30, 2019
Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration, 1931–1954
Elisabeth Oy-Marra, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2019
Techniques of “Autopsy”: The Role of the Graphic Copy in the Emergence of a Science of Art in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome
Jerry Philogene, Dickinson College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2019
Beyond Vodou Iconography: Luce Turnier, a Feminist Modernist in Haiti
Stephanie Porras, Tulane University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2019
The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe
2018–2019
Adrienne L. Childs, The Phillips Collection and The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2018
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition
Ilia Doronchenkov, European University at St. Petersburg
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 2–February 28, 2019
Western Art Exhibitions in 1890s Russia Reconstructed
Linda Goddard, University of St. Andrews
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2018
Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin
Branden W. Joseph, Columbia University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2019
Forms of Life: Kathy Acker, Jack Smith, Lee Lozano, and Carolee Schneemann
Julie L. McGee, University of Delaware
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 2–February 28, 2019
Sam Middleton: An American Artist in Holland, a Transnational Existence
Freeborn O. Odiboh, University of Benin
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2019
The “Mysterious” Realist Paintings of Andrew Wyeth and Abayomi Barber: Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Courtney Quaintance, Independent Scholar
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, May 28 – July 27, 2018
Women, Music, and Representation in the Seventeenth Century
Cole Roskam, University of Hong Kong
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2018
Designing Reform: Postrevolutionary Architectural Culture in the People's Republic of China, 1973–1989
Massimiliano Rossi, Università del Salento
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2018
Filippo Baldinucci's Notizie de' professori del disegno in Late Baroque Florence
Jordana Moore Saggese, California College of the Arts
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 25–August 15, 2018
Game On: The Black Male Boxer in American Art and Culture
Nino Simonishvili, Tbilisi, Georgia
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2018
Wölfflin’s Art History in Stalin’s Home
Cécile Whiting, University of California, Irvine
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15 – August 15, 2018
Global War and the New American Landscape, 1939–1945
Martha Wolff, formerly The Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2018
The Embroidered Altarpiece Made for Bishop Pedro de Montoya: The History, Function, and Stature of a Luxury Textile
2017–2018
Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2017
Cosmoscapes: Interpreting Buddhist Imagery in Ancient Japan
Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi, Ministero
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2017
The Venetian Doge Leonardo Donà and Architecture
S. Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2017
The Inescapability of the Eiffel Tower
Eleni Hasaki, University of Arizona
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, March 12–May 11, 2018
Craft Apprenticeship, Social Networks, and Communities of Practice in Ancient Greece
Karen Koehler, Hampshire College
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15 – August 15, 2017
Walter Gropius and Berlin: Distraction, Destruction, and the Meaning of Home
Elizabeth J. Moodey, Vanderbilt University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2018
Conspicuous Abstention: Grisaille in the Art of the Burgundian Netherlands
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Wellesley College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 2–February 28, 2018
American Women Artists in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy
Lawrence W. Nichols, Toledo Museum of Art
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 13–May 12, 2017
Frans Hals — The Family Portraits
Catherine Phillips, Independent Scholar
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 2–February 28, 2018
From Brussels to the Baltic: Count Charles Conbenzl (1712–1770) and His Collection of Drawings
Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017
The Borders of Chinese Architecture: Balhae and Jurchen
Shigebumi Tsuji, Osaka University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2017
The Cosmological Background of Monumental Representation of Christophany Before the Iconoclasm
Ginette Vagenheim, Université de Rouen
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2017
Pirro Ligorio as a Draftsman: The Catalogue Raisonné of his Drawings
Reva Wolf,
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017
Goya and Freemasonry
Nicole L. Woods, University of Notre Dame
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2017
Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In / Out of Fluxus
2016–2017
Renzo Baldasso, Arizona State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2016
A New Aesthetics for Print: The Emergence of the Visuality of the Printed Page from Gutenberg to Ratdolt
Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2016
Sovereign and
Julia Bryan-Wilson, University of California, Berkeley
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2017
Louise Nevelson's Modernist Drag
Maria Clelia Galassi, Università
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016
Jan Massys and the Depiction of Female Beauty in Flemish Painting (1530–1575)
Judit Geskó, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2016
Cézanne and Non-Arcadian Abstraction
Lynn A. Jones, Florida State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016
An Imperial Cult? The Case of Nikephoros II Phokas in the Rock-Cut Church of Cavusin, Cappadocia
Amy Helene Kirschke, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016
Black Ink: Romare Bearden's Political Cartoons
Karen Lang, University of Warwick
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016
Philip Guston and the Allegory of Painting
Tom Nichols, University of Glasgow
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1 – December 31, 2016
Jacopo Bassano and the Invention of Localism
Alison Locke Perchuk, California State University Channel Islands
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15 – August 15, 2016
The Monastery of Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone
Rachel E. Perry, Haifa University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2016
Making Painting Matter: Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, and French Art in the 1940s
Lisa Pon, Southern Methodist University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2017
Raphael and the Renaissance Arts of Collaboration
2015–2016
Elizabeth Bartman, New York City
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 4–February 29, 2016
"Manoeuvering the Marble": The Modern Restoration of Ancient Sculpture
Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, February 1–March 31, 2016
The Invention of the Moving and Projected Image
Suzanne Hudson, University of Southern California
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 29 – August 15, 2015
Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process
Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negrev
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2015
Degas and Cassatt: Constructing their Relationship, Legacy, and Value
Yuka Kadoi, University of Edinburgh
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2015
Inventing Persian Art
Vladimir Kulić, Florida Atlantic University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2015
Architecture's Expanded Field: Bogdan Bogdanović and an Alternative Genealogy of Postmodernism
Leo G. Mazow, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2015
Hopper's Hotels
Nassos Papalexandrou, The University of Texas at Austin
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2015
Monsters, Fear, and the Uncanny in the Preclassical Mediterranean
Alexa Kristen Sand, Utah State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2015
Moral Vision: La Somme le roi, 1279–1500
Ginette Vagenheim, University of Rouen
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, June 15–August 15, 2015
Pirro Ligorio’s Early Drawings and the Influence of Polidoro da Caravaggio: A Focus on Landscapes
Matthias Weniger, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2015
The Sculpture Collector Benoit Oppenheim (1842–1931)