Research Reports
Every fellow, postdoctoral research associate, and intern submits a summary of the independent research accomplished at the Center, often representing the first published record of this new work.

Fellows
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Sociocultural Narratives of Clothes and Costumes among the Mbula People of Northeastern Nigeria
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Arboreal Formations: The Dynamics of Wood in Italian Intarsia and Painting, 1450–1540
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Tracking North: Art, Ecology, and Exchange in the Medieval Nordic World
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Classics and the Art Museum: The Shock of the Old
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Extracting Resources, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Prints and Maps
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Brick Gothic and the Hanse: Materials, Networks, and Urban Identities, 1250–1450
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Art and Automation
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Albedrío / Free Will: Research for an Exhibition Proposal
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The Resurrected Christ Appearing to the Virgin: Visualizing an Apocryphal Encounter in Late Medieval Art
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John Singer Sargent’s Stereographs Rediscovered
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Tracking “Primitive Art” from New Guinea: How Morton D. May Assembled Department Store Exhibition Sales for Middlebrow America (A Detective Story)
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Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard
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Abstraction in the Andes, 1950–1970
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The Retromodern, Africa, and the Time of the Contemporary
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Police Media and Documentary Photography in 20th-Century America
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Retracing Truth: The Haunting Presence of History in Contemporary Art Practices in Iran
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Āsār: Visualizing Vestiges of the Past in 19th-Century Iran
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Beyond “Buon Fresco”: Experimenting with Oil in Early Modern Mural Painting (c. 1500–1650)
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Fossils for a Future Time: David Smith and the Sculpting of Traces
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The Last of the Qataban
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The Bohío and the City: Ephemeral Architecture and Urbanism in the Late Spanish Colonial Caribbean
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Inheriting Islamic Art History: I. M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
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Until We Are Forged: Hymns for the Elements
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From the Ground Up: Picturing Scientific Knowledge in the Late 18th-Century Spanish Americas
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We Live Here, Now
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Lifelikeness: A Story of Art in Archaic and Classical Greece
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Unmaking Tradition: Native Designers and the Representation of Knowledge During the “Indian New Deal”
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Missions Impossible: The Art of Franciscan Failure and Puebloan Perseverance in Nuevo México
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Color Through the Seven Spheres: Materiality and Vision in Medieval Islamic Architecture
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Simulating Time, Modeling Cosmologies: Clockwork Art Between Early Modern Europe and China
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Network Moderns: Vernacular Photography and Image-Making in Global Chinas
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Ambassadors of Art: State and Culture Across Borders
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How Modern Art Became Islamic: Imagining God and Man Between Iran’s Two Revolutions
Interns
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Photography and Furnishings: Embodied Memories
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Evaluation of Curatorial Processes, Design, and Reception
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Professional Development through Curatorial Research and Project Management
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Understanding the Index of American Design
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Programming and Digital Initiatives at the Center
Postdoctoral Research Associates
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The Aesthetics of Digital Color
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Text/Image Dynamics in Ethiopian Gospel Manuscripts
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Beverly Buchanan’s Material Experiments, 1977–1982