Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Banta, Andaleeb B. (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Il Prete Genovese: Bernardo Strozzi and the International Artistic Culture of Early Seventeenth-Century Genoa"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Barack, Sarah M. (Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To research and examine the development of acid etching of stained glass in southern Germany during the late Gothic period

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Bell, Joshua A. (Brasenose College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom)
To conduct research on the photographic collections of the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea in relation to his dissertation entitled, "Intersecting Histories and Material Culture: Examining Social Reproduction and Transformation in Communities of the Purari River Delta, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea"

Chester Dale Fellow
Boylan, Alexis L. (Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Assistant professor, Art History, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
To complete the research and writing of her article on the American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson (modeled 1887–88)

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Edelstein, Beth M. (Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To continue her study and conservation treatment of the polychromy and construction of fourteenth-century Spanish carved limestone tombs at The Cloisters

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Epstein, Johanna Ruth (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "The Role of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art in the Formation of French Modernism, 1848–1900"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Feliciano, María Judith (University of Pennsylvania)
To conduct research for her project, "To Honor a Saintly Body, or the Early Use of Andalusian Textiles in Northern Iberia (1000–1200)"

Chester Dale Fellow
Geronimus, Dennis V. (Ph.D., Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom)
Assistant professor, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
To complete the writing and editing of his book, Odd Man In: The Painting Career of Piero de Cosimo

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Hale, Meredith M. (Columbia University)
To conduct research for her dissertation on Dutch printmaker Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708)

Polaire Weissman Fellow
Hess, Heather (Rutgers University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "The Wiener Werkstatte and its Critics"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Knast, Alicja B. (University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Poland)
Curator, Department of Musical Instruments, National Museum, Poznań, Poland
To conduct research for her project entitled, "How Organology Could Help to Approach Onthological Issues of Music? Investigating Poerschmann and Pianos by Steinway and Sons and the Collaboration with Ignance Jan Paderewski"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Koon, Yeewan (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Literati Iconoclasm: Violence and Estrangement in the Arts of Su Renshan (1813–ca.1850)"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Landau, Amy (Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom)
To complete her dissertation, "The Perso-European Mode at the Court of Shah Sulayman (1666–1694)"

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
Mulholland, Richard (University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
To conduct research on the materials used in works by twentieth-century artists, such as David Smith, in the Metropolitan Museum’s collection

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Muratov, Maya B. (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To continue her dissertation research, "Coroplastic Traditions of the Bosporan Kingdom (Second Century B.C.–Fourth Century A.D.): The Case of the Jointed Dolls"

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

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

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Niekrasz, Carmen C. (Northwestern University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Flemish Tapestry and Natural History at the Jagiellon and Borromeo Courts, 1550–1600"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Palagia, Olga (Ph.D., Classical Messene in Archaeology, Oxford, United Kingdom)
Professor in Classical Archaeology and department chair, Department of Archeology and History of Art, University of Athens, Greece
To conduct research for her monograph on Macedonian tomb frescoes and her catalogue of votive reliefs from the excavations of Greece

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Peters, Emily J. (University of California, Santa Barbara)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "From Procession to Print: History and Identity in the Antwerp Printing Profession, 1559–1582"

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

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Rabourdin, Stéphanie (Université Paris Sorbonne–Paris IV, France)
To conduct scientific analysis and conservation treatments on the Metropolitan Museum’s furniture collection

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Ratliff, Brandie (Columbia University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Image and Relic at Byzantine Pilgrimage Sites"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Ryder, Edmund C. (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for his dissertation on portable mosaic icons from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Schmid, Vanessa I. (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Portraiture and Community in Amsterdam, 1650–1672"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Sciberras, Keith (Ph.D., University of Malta, Msida, Malta)
Professor, Art Programme, University of Malta
To conduct research on Caravaggio, specifically work in American collections

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Stacy, Christina (Princeton University)
To conduct research for her project on the bedroom from the Palazzo Sagredo Santa Sofia, Venice

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Stefanova, Morena (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Senior curator, National Museum of History, Sofia, Bulgaria
To conduct research for her project, "Cultural and Trade Interrelations between Thrace and the Anatolian-Aegean World during the Third Millennium, B.C."

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Stockman, Denise (Buffalo State University)
To study treatment decisions and to research the question of optimal removal of oil stains from paper

Annette Kade Charitable Trust Fellow
Stuenkel, Isabel S. (Rheinische-Friedrich-Universitat, Bonn, Germany)
To continue her study of the wall decoration of the cult chapels of royal women in the pyramid complex of King Wilhelms-Senwosret III at Dahshur, Egypt (ca. 1878–1840 B.C.)

Sherman Fairchild Conservation Fellow
Tavzes, Črtomir (Ph.D., University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana
To continue his study, "Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Techniques for Removal of Fungal Melanin Staining Art Objects"

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

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Tugusheva, Olga V. (Lomonosov State Moscow University, Russia)
Senior researcher, Department of Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
To continue her work on the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project, Pushkin State Museum, Russia, and to study the red-figured Attic vase paintings of the fourth century B.C.

Bothmer Fellow
Udell, Jennifer (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation project, "Times of Day and Times of Year in Greek Vase Painting"

Chester Dale Fellow
Weiss, Marta (Princeton University)
To conduct research and writing for her dissertation, "British Staged Photography and the Victorian Album, 1858–1875"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Whitney, D. Quincy (Wake Forest University), freelance Arts and Humanities journalist
To conduct research for her biography of contemporary luthier Carleen Maley Hutchins (b. 1911)

View a list of 2003–2004, 2005–2006, and 2006–2007 recipients of fellowship awards.