Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Ahlfeldt, Jennifer (Columbia University)
To prepare her dissertation, "On Reconstructing Maya Architecture: A Reconstruction and Reinterpretation of an 8th Century Maya Temple at Copan, Honduras" for publication

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Anderson, Susan (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation project, "Witty and Lascivious Amusements: Cornelis Dusart's Watercolors and Drawings and the Dawn of the 18th Century"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Bambling, Michele (Ph.D., Columbia University)
To conduct research for her project, "Ground-painting in Gold, Silver and Mica: From Shikishi to Screen"

Leo and Julia Forchheimer Fellow
Cleland, Elizabeth (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
To conduct research on her project entitled "Fifteenth Century Perceptions of Small Scale Devotional Tapestries"

J. Clawson Mills Scholarship Fellow
Cutler, Anthony (Ph.D, Emory University)
To conduct research on his study, "Import or Domestic? Byzantine and Byzantinizing Ivories in Ottonian Germany"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Dickerson, Claude (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for his dissertation, "Bernini and Before: Modeled Sculpture in Rome, c. 1600–1625"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Dobney, Jayson (University of South Dakota)
To create an annotated checklist of the percussion instruments in the Museum's Musical Instrument collection with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century drums

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Duvernois, Isabelle (Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To review, examine and treat works of art from the modern paintings collection, as well as conduct a survey of the modern art storage conditions and implement preventive conservation

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Easton, Elizabeth (Ph.D., Yale University)
To conduct research for her study on Impressionist designed frames, the framing choices made by dealers and collectors, and the history of framing Impressionist pictures by museums

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Edelstein, Beth (Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research on the materials and techniques of the polychrome stone tombs located in the Gothic chapel at The Cloisters, and to develop a cleaning procedure for them

Chester Dale Fellow
Guest, Emma (Rutgers University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Virgil's 'Eclogues' in Italian Renaissance Art"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Herren, Angela (The Graduate Center, The City University of New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Portraying the Aztec Past: 16th Century Pictorial Accounts of Origin"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Iriarte, Isabel (Curator, Andean Pre-Columbian Textile Collection, Museo Etnografico "Juan B. Ambrosetti," Universidad de Buenos Aires)
To study the Paracas textiles in the Museum's collection

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Jenkins, Catherine (Oxford University)
To further research sections of her dissertation work on the Fontainebleau School of printmaking for future publications

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Kahil, Abdallah (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To prepare his dissertation, "The Sultan Hasan Complex in Cairo, 1357–1364, for publication"

Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellow
Kleinman, Jaime (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research on the art of the Middle Assyrian period

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Koltsida, Aikaterini (Ph.D., The University of Liverpool, England)
To conduct research on the Museum's excavation archives of the ancient Egyptian site of Malkata

Douglass Foundation Fellow
Lemmey, Karen (The Graduate Center, The City University of New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Henry Kirke Brown and the Development of American Public Sculpture in New York City, 1846–1876"

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Leopardi, Liliana (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Carlo Crivelli and the Adriatic Renaissance"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Lipton, Sara (Ph.D., Yale University)
To conduct the research and writing for her project, "Preaching, Art and Piety in the High Middle Ages (1150–1350)"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Lladó-Buisán, Virginia (University of Northumbria, United Kingdom)
To conduct scientific research on the Metropolitan Museum's poster collection

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Luczanits, Christian (Ph.D., Instituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli, Rome)
To conduct research for his study, "Iconographic Questions of Early Tibetan Paintings"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Lussier, Stephanie (Buffalo State College, New York)
To conduct research for her project, "An Examination of Lead-White Darkening on Paper Artifacts"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Machaira, Vassiliki (Ph.D., University of Paris I–Panthéon Sorbonne)
To conduct research on Rhodian sculpture in the Museum's collection in preparation for her publication of a catalogue of Hellenistic sculpture from the island of Rhodes

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
McCarthy, Heather (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research and write her dissertation on the art and architecture of Ramesside royal women's tombs in the Valley of the Queens, and to help with the reinstallation of the Ramesside Gallery of Egyptian Art

Bothmer Fellow
Muratov, Maya (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Coroplastic Traditions of the Bosporan Kingdom (Second Century BC–Fourth Century AC)"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Murphy, Jessica (University of Delaware)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Portraiture and Feminine Identity in the Stieglitz Circle: Agnes Ernst Meyer, Katharine Rhoades, and Marion Beckett"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Ottani-Cavina, Anna (Ph.D., University of Rome)
To conduct research for a three volume work on landscape painting in Italy

Sherman Fairchild Conservation Fellow
Petrak, Gaby (University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Institute of Conservation Science)
To conduct an in-depth technical investigation and documentation of the lacca povera decoration of the Venetian Secretary in the Museum's collection and to conduct the conservation and restoration treatments of the surface decoration

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Poggi, Christine (Ph.D., Yale University)
To conduct research and complete the writing of her book, "Modernity as Trauma: The Cultural Politics of Italian Futurism"

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Prokop, Ellen (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Fray Juan Rizi and the Commissions at San Millan de la Cogolla and the Cathedral of Burgos"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Renié, Pierre-Lin (National School of Photography, Arles)
To conduct research for his book, "Pictures of the 19th Century: The Published Print and Photograph"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Russakoff, Anna (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Imaging the Miraculous: 'Les Miracles de Notre Dame' (Paris BnF n.acq.fr.24541)"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Soszko, Ewa (Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw)
To study American conservation methodologies and practices related to textiles

Annette Kade Charitable Trust Fellow
Stuenkel, Isabel (Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat, Bonn, Germany)
To conduct research for her study of the cult chapel wall decoration of the royal women of the Senwosret III pyramid complex

L.W. Frohlich Fellow
Tavzes, Crtomir (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
To conduct research for his project, "Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Techniques for Removal of Fungal Melanin Staining from Art Objects"

Chester Dale Fellow
Taylor, Geoffrey (Harvard University)
To conduct research and prepare descriptive records of the architectural drawings in the Scholz and Goldschmidt scrapbooks in the collection of the Drawings and Prints Department

Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellow
Teece, Denise Marie (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research on a group of 15th century Persian poetry anthologies presented in an oblong, or safina format

J. Clawson Mills Scholarship Fellow
Thomas, Thelma (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her project, "Textiles of Late Antique Egypt"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Vassileva, Maya (Ph.D., Institute of Thracian Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
To continue her research and analysis of bronzes from the ancient Phrygian site of Gordion

Leo and Julia Forchheimer Fellow
Yoshida, Masako (Kyoto University, Japan)
To conduct research for her project, "Chinese Textiles Produced for the Export Market from the 16th through 18th Centuries"

View a list of 2004–2005, 2005–2006, and 2006–2007 recipients of fellowship awards.