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Every member submits a summary of the independent research accomplished while in residence at the Center, often representing the first published record of new research.

Nisa Ari

Before “Palestinian Art”: Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and “The Welfare of Palestine,” 1876–1948

Fabio Barry

The Endless Revolution: The Dome, from Vault of Heaven to Hypersphere

Sarah Battle

An Oral History Project: The Black Artistic Community in Louisville, Kentucky, 1950s–1970s

Sinclair W. Bell

Visualizing Difference in the Roman Empire: Aethiopians in Imperial Art and Culture

Barbara H. Berrie

Depicting Shimmer, Shine, and Iridescence

Ian Bourland

Gold Standard

Douglas Brine

Brazen Splendors: The Art of Brass in the Burgundian Netherlands

Shira Brisman

Insidious Silver: German Goldsmiths and Their Craft, 1568–1610

Kaira M. Cabañas

Deviant Art Histories

Lisa Gail Collins

Love Lies Here: Grief, a Quilt, and the Community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama

Huey Copeland

Black Being and Modernist Iconicity

Aruna D’Souza

Questions about Art History, Museums, and Writing

Anna Aline Mehlman Dumont

From Design Reform to Fascist Craft: Textiles and Italian Women’s Labor, 1870–1945

Luke A. Fidler

Henry the Lion and the Art of Politics, c. 1142–1195

Christine Garnier

The American Silverscape: Art, Extraction, and Sovereignty, 1848–1893

Frederick W. Gooding, Jr.

How Black Statues Reflect Our Society’s Race Relations at a Standstill

Sabine Hake

The Image of the Worker and the Aestheticization of Work in Nazi Art and Design

Kristin Love Huffman

Visual Invention: Reframing Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Expanding Agency: Women and Modern American Architecture and Design, 1923–1972

Homay King

Go West: A Mythology of California’s Silicon Valley

Juliet Koss

Model Soviets

Sabine Kriebel

Objectivity Viewed Obliquely: The New Vision Photography of Florence Henri and Germaine Krull

Marcia Kupfer

Sites of Anti-Judaism in Ethiopian Art and Culture

Pamela O. Long

Machines on Paper: From Leonardo da Vinci to Vittorio Zonca

Isabella Lores-Chavez

Plaster Casts in the Life and Art of 17th-Century Dutch Painters

Mohit Manohar

The City of Gods and Fortune: An Architectural and Urban History of Daulatabad, c. 13th–15th Centuries

Jeffrey Moser

Moral Depths: Making Antiquity in a Medieval Chinese Cemetery

Christopher J. Nygren

Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art

Rachel Catherine Patt

Meaning, Materiality, and Pothos in Late Antique Gold-Glass Portraits

John Peffer

Sample Album/How do we look?

Catherine H. Popovici

Stones of Statehood: Art, Politics, and Placemaking in Classic Maya Landscape

Christopher T. Richards

Picturing Desire and Desiring Pictures: Ovide moralisé and the Vernacular Manuscript Tradition

Lowery Stokes Sims

The Emergence of a New Black Art Canon

Sarah-Neel Smith

Envisioning the Middle East: The Lost History of America’s Artistic Exchanges, 1952–1979

Erhan Tamur

Site-Worlds: An Account of Material Lives from Tello (Ancient Girsu)

Ellen Tani

Charles Gaines and Black Conceptual Practice

Phoebe Wolfskill

Photography, Painting, and the Early 20th-Century Black Subject

Nicole L. Woods

Acid Visions: Abstract Figurative Painting and the Afro-Futurism of Bob Thompson

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