Board of Advisors
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
Joanne Pillsbury, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 2019–August 2022
Lothar von Falkenhausen, University of California, Los Angeles
September 2018–August 2021
Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
September 2020–August 2023
Michael Zell, Boston University
October 2019–August 2022
Curatorial Liaison
Harry Cooper, National Gallery of Art
Senior Curator and Head of Modern Art
September 2018–August 2021
Special Selection Committees
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
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
Staff
Elizabeth Cropper, Dean (to July 2020)
Steven Nelson, Dean (from July 2020)
Therese O’Malley, Associate Dean
Peter M. Lukehart, Associate Dean
Helen Tangires, Center Administrator
Jeannette Ibarra Shindell, Assistant Administrator for Budget and Accounting (to May 2020)
Nathalie Meza, Assistant Administrator for Budget and Accounting (from July 2020)
Programs
Elise Ferone, Center Support Specialist
Caroline Marsh, Regular Meetings Coordinator
Annie G. Miller, Special Meetings and Publications Coordinator
Jen Rokoski, Communications Coordinator
Abby S. Whitlock, Assistant to the Program of Research
Andy Wolanski, Fellowship Officer
Research
Valeria Federici, Research Associate
Miriam K. Said, Research Associate
Lauren Taylor, Research Associate/Edmond J. Safra Research Associate
Matthew J. Westerby, Robert H. Smith Research Associate
Fulvia Zaninelli, Research Associate
Members
Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles
Kress-Beinecke Professor, 2020–2021
Huey Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2020–2022
Penelope Curtis, London
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2021
Jennifer L. Roberts, Harvard University
70th A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, spring 2021
Senior Fellows
Elena M. Calvillo, University of Richmond
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, fall 2020
Rome in Translation: Cultural Brokerage in 16th-Century Italy
Patrick R. Crowley, Stanford University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, spring 2021
Roman Portraiture: A Media Archaeology
Madhuri Desai, The Pennsylvania State University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2020–2021
Creating the Mughal Temple: Architecture, Innovation, and Archaism (1590‒1700)
André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2020–2021
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Byron Ellsworth Hamann, The Ohio State University
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2020–2021
A History of Mexico through Histories of “The Conquest”: The Lienzos of Tlaxcala Remade, 1552‒2012
Stuart Lingo, University of Washington
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2020–2021
Bronzino’s Bodies and Mannerism’s Masks
Oscar E. Vázquez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2020–2021
Copying the Body: The Practice and Politics of Life Drawing in Latin American Academies of Art, 1780‒1900
Visiting Senior Fellows
Kathryn Jane Brown, Loughborough University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 2021
Artists’ Books of the Harlem Renaissance
Delinda J. Collier, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2020
African Art as Evidence
Simone C. Drake, The Ohio State University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2020
Visualizing and Hearing Separatist Aesthetics in Contemporary Black Art and Music
Melissa L. Hyde, University of Florida
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2020
Marie-Suzanne Giroust Roslin: The Forgotten Académicienne
Brian L. McLaren, University of Washington
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2021
Architecture and Mobility in Italian Africa during the Fascist Era
Samantha A. Noël, Wayne State University
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 2021
Diasporic Art in the Age of Black Power
Howard Singerman, Hunter College
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2020
Acts of Art and Cinque: Networks and Geographies of Black Art in Manhattan, 1969‒1975
Rachel Stephens, University of Alabama
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2020
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Concealment of Slavery in Antebellum American Art
Molly Warnock, Johns Hopkins University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 2020–2021
The Subject of Painting: James Bishop and Tel Quel
Karl P. Whittington, The Ohio State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2020
Trecento Pictoriality: Diagrammatic Painting in the Age of Giotto
Guest Scholar
Melanee C. Harvey, Howard University
Paul Mellon Guest Scholar, 2020–2021
Patterns of Permanence: African Methodist Episcopal Architecture and Visual Culture
Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Curatorial/Conservation Fellow
Mel Harper, National Gallery of Art, Division of Education, Department of Interpretation
ACT: The Black Women’s Performance Wikipedia Project
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ellen Tani
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2022
Black Conceptual Practice in Contemporary Art
Predoctoral Fellows
in residence
Thadeus Dowad [University of California, Berkeley]
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2018–2021
Border Regimes: European Art and Ottoman Modernity, 1789–1839
Susan Eberhard [University of California, Berkeley]
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2019–2021
Chinese Export Silverwares, Foreign Coins, and Incarnations of Value: The Global Economy and Its Materials, 1682–1902
Ziliang Liu [Harvard University]
Ittleson Fellow, 2019–2021
Art of Changes: Material Imagination in Early China, c. Third to First Century BCE
Andrew Sears [University of California, Berkeley]
David E. Finley Fellow, 2018–2021
The Sacred and the Market: Reliquaries and Urbanism in Medieval Cologne
Kimia Shahi [Princeton University]
Wyeth Fellow, 2019–2021
Margin, Surface, Depth: Picturing the Contours of the Marine in 19th-Century America
Johanna Sluiter [New York University]
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2019–2021
Engineering Habitat: Reconstruction, Decolonization, and the Atelier des Bâtisseurs, 1945–1962
Teresa Soley [Columbia University]
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2019–2021
The Politics of Death: A Social History of Renaissance Portuguese Tomb Sculpture
Not in residence
Davida Fernández-Barkan [Harvard University]
David E. Finley Fellow, 2020–2023
Mural Diplomacy: Mexico, the United States, and France at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris
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
Sara Lent Frier [Yale University]
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, fall 2020
Unbearable Witness: The Disfigured Body in the German-Speaking Lands, c. 1500‒1650
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
Maria Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque [University of California, Berkeley]
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2020–2021
Art, Civility, and Religion in the Amazon Margins
Cleo Nisse [Columbia University]
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2020–2023
Unraveling Canvas: Textile Supports and Venetian Painting from Bellini to Tintoretto
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)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad
Zoë Colón [University of Delaware]
Grace Converse [University of Southern California]
Phillippa Pitts [Boston University]