Board of Advisors
Marisa Bass, Yale University
September 2022–August 2025
Stephen J. Campbell, Johns Hopkins University
September 2020–August 2023
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
September 2022–August 2025
Maria Gough, Harvard University
September 2020–August 2023
Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University
September 2022–August 2025
Joan Kee, University of Michigan
September 2021–August 2024
Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
September 2020–August 2023
Curatorial Liaison
Franklin Kelly, National Gallery of Art
Christiane Ellis Valone Curator of American Paintings
September 2021–August 2024
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
Howard University Undergraduate Internships
Roger Lawson, National Gallery of Art
2023–2025 internship cohort
Jeannette Ibarra Shindell, National Gallery of Art
2023–2025 internship cohort
Haywood Turnipseed, National Gallery of Art
2023–2025 internship cohort
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Eddie Chambers, The University of Texas at Austin
October 2019–February 2023
David Young Kim, University of Pennsylvania
November 2020–February 2024
Laura E. Pérez, University of California, Berkeley
November 2020–February 2024
David Young Kim, Laura E. Pérez, and Eddie Chambers
Staff
Deans
Steven Nelson, Dean
Peter M. Lukehart, Associate Dean for Fellowships and Fellows Programs
Kaira M. Cabañas, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Publications (from March 2023)
Administration
Helen Tangires, Center Administrator
Nathalie Meza, Assistant Administrator for Budget and Accounting
Programs
Sarah Battle, Coordinator of Academic Programs and Publications (from October 2022)
Gary Calcagno, Gallery Support Specialist (from October 2022)
Thomas Edwards, Fellowship Officer (from May 2023)
Elise Ferone, Center Support Specialist
Frances Grant, Center Support Specialist (to August 2022)
Emily Koller-Apelskog, Fellows Program Coordinator
Jen Rokoski, Communications Officer
Matthew J. Westerby, Digital Research Officer
Andy Wolanski, Fellowship Officer (to January 2023)
Research
Angélica Becerra, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Gloria de Liberali, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Fulvia Zaninelli, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Exhibition tour of A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur at the National Museum of Asian Art, led by Dipti Khera, cocurator and Center Ittleson Fellow (2009–2011), March 2023
Members
Center professors, fellows, and staff, May 2023. Photo: John Schwartz
H. Perry Chapman, University of Delaware (emerita)
Kress-Beinecke Professor, 2022–2023
Adriana Zavala, Tufts University
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2022–2024
Gail Feigenbaum, San Diego, CA
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2023
Stephen D. Houston, Brown University
72nd A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, spring 2023
Senior Fellows
Morten Steen Hansen, Danish Academy in Rome
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, fall 2022
Idol-Phobia in the Spanish Empire: Translating the Sacred at the Escorial
Marius B. Hauknes, University of Notre Dame
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
The Medieval Image of Chaos as the Image of the Other
Angela Ho, George Mason University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Defining Self and Other: The Dutch East India Company’s Encounters with Chinese Culture, 1602–1740
Christopher Lakey, Rhinebeck, NY
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2023
The Materials of Anachronism: Gold Ground Painting during the Long Middle Ages (1200–1600)
Sarah Lopez, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, spring 2023
Architectural History Is Migrant History: Construction Labor and Cantera Stone in Mexico and the United States
Megan R. Luke, University of Southern California
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow
Sculpture in an Age of Mass Reproduction
Rune Nyord, Emory University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Nocturnal Propensities: Mortuary Religion and Ontology in the Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom
Alessandra Raengo, Georgia State University
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, fall 2022
Liquid Blackness in Contemporary Visual Arts: Black Study as Aesthetic Practice
Adriana Zavala presents her research to Center members and National Gallery staff, September 2022
Visiting Senior Fellows
James M. Córdova, University of Colorado Boulder
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 2023
Sacralizing Conquest: The Spanish-Aztec War in Religious Art
Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, University of Virginia
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022
The World In Between: Egypt, Wawat, Kush, and Meroe in Africa
Al-An deSouza, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2022
Disturbances in the Force: Reimagining America through Its Art Histories
Ann C. Huppert, University of Washington
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022
Building Knowledge: The Culture of Construction in 16th-Century Rome
Kiki Karoglou, New York, NY
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022
MANIA: Narratives of Madness in Classical Art
Michele Lamprakos, University of Maryland, College Park
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022
Memento Mauri: The Afterlife of the Great Mosque of Córdoba
Nancy Micklewright, Silver Spring, MD
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2023
Fashion in a Global City: Dress and the Camera in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Allison Morehead, Queen’s University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2022
Edvard Munch and the Medicalization of Modern Life
Carol McMichael Reese, Tulane University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2022
Race, Housing, and Community Design in the Company Towns of the US Canal Zones, 1920–1960
Alex Dika Seggerman, Rutgers University–Newark
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2022
Art Histories of Antebellum American Islam
Tanya Sheehan, Colby College
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2023
After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art
Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022
Paper Matters: The Socio-Materiality of Early Modern Paper
Rune Nyord, former fellow Pamela O. Long, Ann C. Huppert, and Michele Lamprakos at the Center’s opening reception, September 2022
Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Fellows
Danielle Hahn, National Gallery of Art, Department of Music Programs
We Gather Together: The Role of Music Festivals in Healing and Rebuilding Communities following Periods of War, Pandemic, Famine, Displacement, and Other Epic Disasters
Paige Rozanski, National Gallery of Art, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
USCO: A Meditation on Technology and Mysticism and the Creation of a Psychedelic Aesthetic
Postdoctoral Fellows
Nisa Ari
Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2023
Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and “The Welfare of Palestine,” 1876–1948
Benjamin O. Murphy
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022–2024
Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art
Guest Scholar
Kendra Greendeer, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul Mellon Guest Predoctoral Fellow
Rematriating Indigeneity in Contemporary Native American Arts
Predoctoral Fellows
in residence
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
Cleo Nisse, Columbia University
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2020–2023
Unraveling Canvas: Textile Supports and Venetian Painting from Bellini to Tintoretto
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
Cleo Nisse, Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, Kendra Greendeer, H. Perry Chapman, Anthony J. Meyer, Davida Fernández-Barkan, Delphine Sims, and Rheagan Eric Martin, May 2023
Not in residence
Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2022–2024
Untitled: Nasreen Mohamedi, Geeta Kapur, and Abstraction in Internationalist India, 1950–2016
David P. Bardeen, University of California, Los Angeles
David E. Finley Fellow, 2022–2025
Arboreal Formations: The Dynamics of Wood in Italian Intarsia and Painting, 1450–1525
Robyn A. Barrow, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2022–2025
Tracking North: Art, Ecology, and Exchange in the Medieval Nordic World
Barbora Bartunkova, Yale University
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2022–2023
Sites of Resistance: Anti-Fascism and the Czechoslovak Avant-Garde
Justin M. Brown, Yale University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2022–2024
Afro-Surinamese Calabash Art in the Era of Slavery and Emancipation
Kirsten J. Burke, Harvard University
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2022–2023
The Art of Writing in Renaissance Germany: Johann Neudörffer’s Calligraphic Revolution
Christopher Daly, Johns Hopkins University
David E. Finley Fellow, 2021–2024
Painting in Lucca in the Late 15th Century: A Problem in Artistic Geography
Erin Dickey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2022–2024
“Bad Information”: Networks, Knowledges, and Feminist Art in the 1980s
Bianca Hand, Johns Hopkins University
Twenty-Four-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2022–2024
What Is Assyria without the Other: The Subversive Role of Alterity in the Reliefs and Architecture of Sargon II’s Royal Palace at Khorsabad
Aleksander Musiał, Princeton University
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2021–2024
Immersion: Classical Reception and Eastern European Transformations of Hygiene Architecture, c. 1600–1830
Catherine L. Nuckols, Tulane University
Twelve-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2022–2023
Unfolding the Sign: Iconography and Figuration in Maya Full-Figure Inscriptions
Kelvin Parnell Jr., University of Virginia
Wyeth Fellow, 2022–2024
Casting Bronze, Recasting Race: American Sculpture and the Bronze Economy (1840–1890)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad
Alexandra Artamonova, Northwestern University
Graham Feyl, University of California, Santa Barbara
Janina López, University of Pittsburgh
Brandee Marlese Newkirk, Duke University
Angélica Becerra, Gary Calcagno, and Kiki Karoglou during a tour of the exhibition Sargent and Spain, December 2022