People

Stephen J. Campbell, Johns Hopkins University 
September 2020–August 2023

Bridget R. Cooks, University of California, Irvine 
September 2019–August 2022

Maria Gough, Harvard University 
September 2020–August 2023

Joan Kee, University of Michigan 
September 2021–August 2024

Joanne Pillsbury, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
September 2019–August 2022

Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College 
September 2020–August 2023

Michael Zell, Boston University 
October 2019–August 2022

Curatorial Liaison

Franklin Kelly, National Gallery of Art 
Christiane Ellis Valone Curator of American Paintings 
September 2021–August 2024

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad

Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University 
February 2021–March 2023

Jessica L. Horton, University of Delaware 
February 2021–March 2023

Jordana Moore Saggese, University of Maryland 
February 2020–March 2022

Howard University Undergraduate Internships

Roger Lawson, National Gallery of Art 
2022–2024 internship cohort

Jeannette Ibarra Shindell, National Gallery of Art 
2022–2024 internship cohort

Sherri Williams, National Gallery of Art 
2022–2024 internship cohort

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Eddie Chambers, The University of Texas at Austin 
October 2019–February 2023

Kellie Jones, Columbia University 
October 2017–February 2022

David Young Kim, University of Pennsylvania 
November 2020–February 2024

Laura E. Pérez, University of California, Berkeley 
November 2020–February 2024

Deans

Steven Nelson, Dean

Therese O’Malley, Associate Dean (to September 2021)

Peter M. Lukehart, Associate Dean

Administration

Helen Tangires, Center Administrator

Nathalie Meza, Assistant Administrator for Budget and Accounting

Programs

Elise Ferone, Center Support Specialist

Frances Grant, Gallery Support Specialist (from February 2022)

Emily Koller-Apelskog, Support Specialist, Fellows Program (from February 2022)

Caroline Marsh, Regular Meetings Coordinator (to November 2021)

Annie G. Miller, Special Meetings and Publications Coordinator (to May 2022)

Jen Rokoski, Communications Officer

Abby S. Whitlock, Assistant to the Program of Research (to September 2021)

Andy Wolanski, Fellowship Officer

Research

Valeria Federici, Postdoctoral Research Associate (to August 2021)

Miriam K. Said, Postdoctoral Research Associate (to August 2021)

Lauren Taylor, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Matthew J. Westerby, Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate

Hilary Whitham Sánchez, Postdoctoral Research Associate/Edmond J. Safra Postdoctoral Research Associate (from November 2021)

Fulvia Zaninelli, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lowery Stokes Sims, Museum of Arts and Design (emerita) 
Kress-Beinecke Professor, 2021–2022

Huey Copeland, University of Pennsylvania 
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2020–2022

Aruna D’Souza, North Adams, MA 
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2022

Richard J. Powell, Duke University 
71st A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, spring 2022

Senior Fellows

Fabio Barry, London, England
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow 
The Endless Revolution: The Dome, from Vault of Heaven to Hypersphere 

Shira Brisman, University of Pennsylvania 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2022 
The Goldsmith’s Debt: Conceptions of Property in Early Modern Art 

Kaira M. Cabañas, University of Florida 
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow 
Deviant Histories: Radical Psychiatry and Art as Creative Care 

Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College Dublin 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow 
Expanding Agency: Women and Modern American Architecture and Design, 1923–1972 

Juliet Koss, Scripps College 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow 
Model Soviets 

Jeffrey Moser, Brown University 
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow 
Moral Depths: Making Antiquity in a Medieval Chinese Cemetery 

Christopher J. Nygren, University of Pittsburgh 
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow 
Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art

Visiting Senior Fellows

Sinclair W. Bell, Northern Illinois University 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2021 
Visualizing Difference in the Roman Empire: Aethiopians in Imperial Art and Social Practice

Ian Bourland, Georgetown University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, summer 2021
Gold Standard

Douglas Brine, Trinity University 
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2021 
Brazen Splendors: The Art of Brass in the Burgundian Netherlands

Lisa Gail Collins, Vassar College 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2021 
Love Lies Here: Grief, a Quilt, and the Community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama

Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., Texas Christian University 
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2021 
Black Statues: Where We Stand on Race Within Our Capital Space

Sabine Hake, The University of Texas at Austin 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2021 
The Representation of the Worker and the Aestheticization of Work in Nazi Art and Design

Kristin Love Huffman, Duke University 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2022 
Visual Invention: Reframing Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice

Homay King, Bryn Mawr College 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2021 
Go West: A Mythology of California’s Silicon Valley

Sabine Kriebel, University College Cork 
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2021 
Objectivity Viewed Obliquely: The New Vision Photography of Florence Henri and Germaine Krull

Marcia Kupfer, Washington, DC 
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2021 
Sites of Anti-Judaism in Ethiopian Art and Culture

Pamela O. Long, Washington, DC 
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 2022 
Machines on Paper: From Leonardo da Vinci to Vincenzo Scamozzi

John Peffer, Ramapo College of New Jersey 
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2021 
How to Remember Apartheid with Pleasure: The Vernacular of South African Photography

Sarah-Neel Smith, Maryland Institute College of Art 
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2021 
Exhibiting the Middle East: The Lost History of America’s Cultural Exchanges

Phoebe Wolfskill, Indiana University 
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2021 
Photography, Painting, and the Early Twentieth-Century Black Subject

Nicole L. Woods, University of Notre Dame 
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 2022 
Acid Visions: Happenings, Expressionist Painting, and the Afro-Futurism of Bob Thompson

Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Fellows 

Sarah Battle 
National Gallery of Art, Department of Academic Programs 
An Oral History Project: The Black Artistic Community in Louisville, Kentucky, 1950–1970

Barbara H. Berrie 
National Gallery of Art, Department of Scientific Research 
Clear or Colored: Artists’ Use of Glass in Paint

Postdoctoral Fellows

Nisa Ari 
Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2023 
Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and “The Welfare of Palestine,” 1876–1948

Ellen Tani 
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2022 
Black Conceptual Practice in Contemporary Art

Predoctoral Fellows

in residence

Luke A. Fidler, University of Chicago 
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2019–2022 
Henry the Lion and the Art of Politics in Northern Europe, c. 1142–1195

Christine Garnier, Harvard University 
Wyeth Fellow, 2020–2022 
Amalgamating the West during the American Silver Age (1848‒1893)

Isabella Lores-Chavez, Columbia University 
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2020–2022 
Plaster Casts in the Life and Art of 17th-Century Dutch Painters

Mohit Manohar, Yale University 
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2020–2022 
The City of Gods and Fortune: An Architectural and Urban History of Daulatabad, 1200‒1500

Rachel Catherine Patt, Emory University 
David E. Finley Fellow, 2019–2022 
Meaning, Materiality, and Pothos in Late Antique Gold-Glass Portraits

Catherine H. Popovici, The University of Texas at Austin 
Ittleson Fellow, 2020–2022 
Stones of Statehood: Art, Politics, and Placemaking in a Classic Maya Landscape

Erhan Tamur, Columbia University 
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2020–2022 
Site-Worlds: An Account of Material Lives from Tello (Ancient Girsu)

Not in residence

Christopher Daly, Johns Hopkins University 
David E. Finley Fellow, 2021–2024 
Painting in Lucca in the Late 15th Century: A Problem in Artistic Geography

Anna Aline Mehlman Dumont, Northwestern University 
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2021–2022 
From Design Reform to Fascist Craft: Textiles and Italian Women’s Labor, 1870–1945

Davida Fernández-Barkan, Harvard University 
David E. Finley Fellow, 2020–2023 
Mural Diplomacy: Mexico, the United States, and France at the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris

Rheagan Eric Martin, University of Michigan 
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2021–2023 
Printed, Painted, and Illuminated: The Expanding Visual Culture of Venetian Printed Books (1469–1517)

Anthony J. Meyer, University of California, Los Angeles 
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2021–2023 
The Givers of Things: Nahua Religious Leaders and the Art of Making Gifts in the Mexica and Early Modern Worlds

Aleksander Musiał, Princeton University 
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2021–2024 
Immersion: Classical Reception and Eastern European Transformations of Hygiene Architecture, c. 1680–1830

Cleo Nisse, Columbia University 
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2020–2023 
Unraveling Canvas: Textile Supports and Venetian Painting from Bellini to Tintoretto

Christopher T. Richards, New York University 
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2021–2022 
Picturing Desire and Desiring Pictures: The Ovidian Manuscript Tradition

Delphine Sims, University of California, Berkeley 
Wyeth Fellow, 2021–2023 
(Re)surfacing Black Presence: Photography, Black Women’s Bodies, and Geographies

Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, University of Chicago 
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2021–2023 
Vera Molnár’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe

Zhenru Zhou, University of Chicago 
Ittleson Fellow, 2021–2023 
Between the Virtual and the Real: A New Architecture of the Mogao Caves (Dunhuang, China), 781–1036 CE

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad

Brandon P. Eng, New York University

Emma Kennedy, Northwestern University

Tyler Shine, University of Pennsylvania

Zoe Weldon-Yochim, University of California, Santa Cruz