Postdoctoral Fellows

A list of former postdoctoral fellows at the Center and their research projects.

2020s

2023–2025
Maria Gabriella Matarazzo
Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow
Beyond “Buon Fresco”: Experimenting with Oil in Early Modern Mural Painting (c. 1500–1650) (2024)

2023–2024
Anni Pullagura, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
Center/YCBA Postdoctoral Fellow
Seeing Feeling: Troubling Empathy in Contemporary Art

2022–2024
Benjamin O. Murphy
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art (2024)
Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art (2023)

2020–2022
Ellen Tani
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Charles Gaines and Black Conceptual Practice (2022)
Black Conceptual Practice, 1970–1985 (2021)

2010s

2018–2020
Rachel Grace Newman
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
To Search for Beauty in the Ruins: Nineteenth-Century Jamaica and the Work of William Berryman (2020)
William Berryman and His Worlds: Art Production and Patronage in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica (2019)

2016–2018
Megan C. McNamee
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Picturing Number in the Central Middle Ages (2018)
Picturing Number: Denumeration and Representation in Europe, c. 1000 (2017)

2010–2011
Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2010–October 2011
Vitruvius on Display: Domestic Decor and Roman Self-Fashioning at the End of the Republic

2000s

2009–2011
Megan E. O’Neil
University of Southern California
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures

2009–2010
Hendrik W. Dey
Hunter College of the City University of New York
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Architecture, Ceremony, and the Construction of Authority in Late Antiquity

2007–2009
Douglas Brine
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
The Content and Context of Wall-Mounted Memorials in the Burgundian Netherlands

2006–2008
Amy Freund
Southern Methodist University
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Revolutionary Likenesses: Portraiture and Politics in France, 1789–1804

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