J. Clawson Mills Scholarship Fellow
Alexander, Jonathan (Ph.D., Oxford University)
Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To complete a book on Italian Renaissance manuscript illumination, 1430–1580

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Baines, Robert, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Lecturer, School of Art and Culture, RMIT University, Melbourne, Austalia
To test the bonding system of the jewelry group from Vulci in the Department of Greek and Roman Art

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Bartoli, Roberta (Ph.D., University of Pisa)
To conduct research and complete the writing of her project, "Florentine Workshops in The Sistine Chapel and Elsewhere: New Connections Between Artists and Patrons"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Blankert, Albert (Ph.D., Utrecht University)
To conduct research and writing on his project tentatively titled "Holland and Italy: Antipodes or Siamese Twins?"

Chester Dale Fellow
Brooks, Sarah, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To prepare her dissertation for publication, entitled "Imaging the Soul: Portraits of the Dead during the Late Byzantine Period"

L.W. Frohlich Fellow
Burshneva, Svetlava, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Archaeological Metalwork Restorer, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
To continue work on the problem of identification of natural and artificial destructive corrosion products on ancient bronzes

Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellow
Bush, Olga, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univeristy
To continue her dissertation research which concerns the evolution of decorative motifs designed during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the royal workshops of the Nasrid court in the palatial city of the Alhambra

Sherman Fairchild Conservation Fellow
DesChamps, Julie Lattin, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To conduct research on early coating techniques called "vernis cuir," concentrating on the works of the American Pictorialist photographers

Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellow
Drakaki, Eleni, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To continue research on her dissertation topic, "Mycenaen Stone Seals: Context and History"

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Duffy-Zeballos, Lisa, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To conduct research for her dissertation on the devotional paintings of Murillo

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Ekhtiar, Maryam (Ph.D., New York University)
Program Director, American Institute for Iranian Studies
To conduct research for her project, "A Study of Post-Safavid Persian Calligraphers and their Achievements (1700–1900)"

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Flora, Holly, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To conduct research on her dissertation, "Imaging Gender, Poverty and Spirituality in the Trecento: Paris Bibliotheque Nationale ital. 115, the 'Meditationes Vitae Christi'"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Glass, Dorothy F. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)
Professor of Art History, University of Buffalo
To conduct research and write a book entitled, "Italian Romanesque Sculpture: Content and Context"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Guzman, Marcelo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina
Research Team Member, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
To conduct research for his project, "The Development of Non-Destructive Protocols for the Examination of Works of Art on Paper using Raman Spectroscopy and Other Non-Destructive Analytical Techniques"

Annette Kade Charitable Trust Fellow
Heitmann, Raphaela, Universität Münster
To conduct research for her dissertation by studying the seals and seal impressions depicting the "Lahmu" and/or the Akkadian "Kusarriku" (bull-man) from the collections of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Heldman, Marilyn (Ph.D., Washington University)
Adjunct Associate Professor in Art History, University of Missouri
To conduct research on the Ethiopic Four Gospels manuscript in the collection of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Department

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Humphrey, Lyle, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To continue her research for her dissertation, "Manuscript Painting for the Confraternities of Venice 1300 to 1500"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Jung, Jacqueline, Columbia University
To conduct research and produce an article on the Frías portal on display at The Cloisters

Chester Dale Fellow
Kennedy, Trinita, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To complete her dissertation, "The Patronage of the Osservanza: A Study in Religious and Political Crisis in Renaissance Siena"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Koshelev, Vladimir, Curator, Museum of Musical Instruments, St. Petersburg
To work on cataloguing the collection of musical instruments from The Museum of Musical and Theatrical Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Lai, Yu-chih, Yale University
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Revealing the Hidden: Japanese Connections in the Art of Ren Bonian and the Shanghai School, 1842–1895"

Annette Kade Charitable Trust Fellow
Lermer, Andrea, University of Munich
To conduct research for her project, "The Funerary Monuments of the Counts of Urgel at The Cloisters, Commemeration and Representation in Iberian Rulers' Tombs of the Fourteenth Century"

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
McGarry, Rachel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To conduct research for her dissertation, "1600–1615: The Artistic Milieu of Rome and the Young Guido Reni"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Mainardi, Patricia (Ph.D., City University of New York)
Professor, City University of New York, Doctoral Faculty in Art History and Women's Studies; Executive Officer, Doctoral Program in Art History, The Graduate School, City University of New York
To complete the writing for an anthology entitled, "Copies, Replicas, Variations in Nineteenth-Century Art"

J. Clawson Mills Scholarship Fellow
Merz, Jörg Martin (Ph.D., University of Tübingen)
Privatdozent, University of Augsburg
To conduct research for his project, "Pietro da Cortona, Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Milhaupt, Terry, Washington University, St. Louis
To conduct research for her project, "Whose Sleeves? Interpreting Textiles in Paintings"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Mundy, James (Ph.D., Princeton University)
Director, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College; Lecturer, Department of Art, Vassar College
To conduct research for a catalogue raisonné of the drawings of the late sixteenth-century Italian artist, Federico Zuccaro

Polaire Weissman Conservation Fellow
Naunton, Maya, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Assistant Conservator, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
To study and evaluate the storage facility needs at the Costume Institute

Bothmer Fellow
Paggi, Maddalena, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
To conduct research for her dissertation, "The Praenestine Cistae: Etruria, Rome, Magna Grecia in the 4th–3rd Centuries B.C."

Aaron and Betty Lee Stern Foundation Fellow
Pinson, Stephen, Harvard University
To prepare his dissertation, "The Art of L.J.M. Daguerre," for publication

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Polcari, Stephen (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara)
To conduct research and complete his book, "Jackson Pollock: A Design for Change"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Rossi-Rognoni, Gabriele, State University of Pavia
Curator, Musical Instrument Collection, Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence; Lecturer, History of Musical Instruments, State University of Florence
To study conservation techniques and conduct research relating to his project, "Bartolomeo Cristofori's bowed instruments in the Musical Instrument Department"

Douglass Foundation Fellow
Sherry, Karen, University of Delaware
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Exposing the 'Natural' Woman: Female Bodies in American Visual Culture, 1785–1830"

Leo and Julia Forchheimer Fellow
Sokoly, Jochen, University of Oxford
To conduct research for his project, "The Abbasid International Style: The Semiotics of the Inscribed Word"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Trowbridge, Mark (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Assistant Professor, University Studies, Portland State University
To turn his dissertation entitled "Art and 'Ommegangen.' Paintings, Processions, and Dramas in the Late-Medieval Low Countries" into a book

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Ugaz, Flora, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú
To continue her studies in the Textile Conservation Department, while also conducting research and conservation on a rare colonial Peruvian cap with an emphasis on technical and material analysis

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Vassileva, Maya (Ph.D., Institute of Thracian Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Research Associate, Institute of Thracian Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
To conduct research for her project on "Gordion Bronzework"

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