Annette de la Renta Fellow
Abbe, Mark Benford (Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research and technological analysis on the polychromy of Roman marble sculpture from the Aphrodisias Excavations

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Abramishvili, Mikheil, director, Tbilisi Archaeological Museum, Center for Archaeological Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences
To conduct research for his study, "Transcaucasia and the Aegean during the Middle Bronze Age"

Polaire Weissman Fellow
Barron-Duncan, Rachael (Yale University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Fashioning Surrealism: The Making of Radical Couture, 1925–1938"

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Bruijnen, Yvette (Ph.D., Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
To conduct research on the glass production of Louvain artist Jan van Rillaer (ca. 1500–1570) and to revise her dissertation, "Louvain Painting from 1520 to 1570" for scholarly publication

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Cañamares Arribas, María de la Vega (M.A. in Chemistry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
To conduct research for her project, "SERS Application to Identification of Dyes in Samples of Pigments, including those from Textiles"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Chang, Chin-Sung (Ph.D., Yale University)
To revise his dissertation, "Mountains and Rivers, Pure and Splendid: Wang Hui (1632–1717) and the Making of Landscape Panoramas in Early Qing China" for publication

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Chang, Qing (University of Kansas)
To expand on his dissertation research, "Feilaifeng and the Flowering of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Cheng, Sandra (University of Delaware)
To conduct the research and writing for her dissertation, "Il bello dal deforme: The Development of Italian Caricature and Comic Drawings in the Seventeenth Century"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Digney-Peer, Shawn (Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom)
To study paintings conservation and conduct research on additives in paint formulations, specifically concerning surfactants in acrylic emulsion paint

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Dodds, Jerrilyn (Ph.D., Harvard University)
To conduct the research and writing for her publication entitled "Romanesque Spain and the Myth of the West"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Falchetti, Ana María, former vice-director, Gold Museum, Bogotá, Columbia
(M.Phil, Institute of Archaeology, University of London, United Kingdom)
To conduct research for her future publication, "The Symbolic Power of Pre-Columbian Metallurgy"

Douglass Foundation Fellow
Fort, Megan Holloway (City University of New York, Graduate Center)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Archibald and Alexander Robertson and the Columbian Academy of Painting, New York, 1791–1821"

Hagop Kevorkian Fellow
Fowlkes, Blair (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "The Cults of Syrian-Phoenician Gods in the City of Rome: Archaeology, Topography, and Connections to the Roman East"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Hebbert, Benjamin (D.Phil, Oxford University, St. Cross College, United Kingdom)
To revise and expand on his dissertation work,"Geometry and Construction of the English Viol"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Hood, William (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct the research and writing for his publication, "The Renaissance Eye: A Guide to Visual Life in Italy, 1400–1600"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Ikram, Salima (Ph.D., Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
To conduct research on the materials excavated by Herbert Winlock at the Kharga Oasis

Bothmer Fellow
Klar, Laura (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct the research and writing for her dissertation entitled "The Architecture of the Roman Theater: Origins, Canonization, and Dissemination"

Annette Kade Fellow
Knothe, Florian (Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom)
To conduct research for his dissertation project on the Royal Gobelins workshops and their manufacture of decorative arts in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Măcák, Ivan (Ph.D., Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic)
To conduct research for his project on Frame drums and their background

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Marinis, Vasileios (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
To expand and revise his dissertation, "The Monastery tou Libos: Architecture, Sculpture, and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople," for publication

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
May, Jessica Lee (University of California, Berkeley)
To conduct the research and writing for her dissertation, "Off the Clock: Walker Evans and the Crisis of American Capital, 1930–1946."

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Meller, Taina (EVTEK Institute of Art and Design, Vantaa, Finland)
To conduct a study on the conservation and preservation of daguerreotypes, with a particular focus on the Southworth and Hawes daguerreotype collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Musacchio, Theresa (University of Pennsylvania)
To conduct the research and writing for her dissertation entitled "Texts and Iconography of the Funerary Stelae from Dendera During the First Intermediate Period: An Analysis of the Data"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Nardi, Isabella (Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom)
To conduct research and expand on her dissertation work, "The Theory of Indian Painting: The Citrasutras, their Use, and Interpretations"

Hagop Kevorkian Fellow
Natif, Mika (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research on Mughal paintings

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Nogueira, Alison Manges (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) To conduct research for her dissertation, "Images of the Court in Sforza Milan: Illuminated Manuscripts, 1450–1499"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Peduzzi, Nicole (University of Basel, Switzerland)
To conduct research for her dissertation topic, "Pacific Islands Cultures in Historical Postcards"

Chester Dale Fellow
Pergam, Elizabeth (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her project, "Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs, and the Public: The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Piatnitsky, Yury, curator, Oriental Department, The State Hermitage Museum, Russia
To conduct research on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Byzantine collections in relation to the State Hermitage Museum’s collections and his future publication, "History of Byzantine Studies"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Porcinai, Simone (Ph.D. in Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage, University of Florence, Italy)
To conduct a study on the non-invasive identification of organic dyes in textiles

Sherman Fairchild Fellow
Porter, Heather (M.A., Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum Conservation, London, United Kingdom)
To study upholstery history, techniques, and springs; and to also assist with the American Decorative Arts gallery installations as well as examine the Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art Department's collection of upholstered furniture

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Poska, Olivia (University of Michigan)
To conduct the research and writing for her dissertation, "The Draftsmanship of Adriaen Van de Venne (Delft 1589–1662 The Hague): A Study of Drawing in an Age of Print"

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Puglisi, Catherine (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct the research and writing for a collaborative book (with co-author William Barcham) on Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Ramírez-Weaver, Eric Matthew (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for his dissertation entitled "Carolingian Innovation and Observation in the Paintings and Star Catalouges of Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, M.S. 3307"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Schöfberger, Wolfgang (Ph.D., Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Organic Materials, Graz, Austria)
To conduct research for his project entitled "Non-destructive Investigation of Binding Media and Inks in Works of Art, With a Focus on Paper and Parchment Substrates, Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Techniques"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Shalem, Avinoam (Ph.D., Edinburgh University, United Kingdom)
To conduct the research and writing for his project, "Corpus of the Medieval Oliphants"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Shamir, Jacob (Ph.D. in Chemistry, Hebrew University, Israel)
To conduct research for his project, "Raman Analysis of Tarry and Lignin-like Pigments Used by Artists"

Chester Dale Fellow
Spira, Freyda (University of Pennsylvania)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Daniel Hopfer and the Reinvention of the Medium of Etching"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Stefanova, Morena (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Senior Curator, National Museum of History, Sofia, Bulgaria To continue her 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 continue her study of the optimal methods of oil stain reduction from paper, and treat appropriate objects

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation topic on Elisabetta Sirani and the women artists of seventeenth-century Bologna

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Stryker, Eric (Yale University)
To conduct research for his project, "Reconstruction and Art in Postwar London: Four Case Studies Concerning Art and Social Flux"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Suh, Kisook (Fashion Institute of Technology)
Research assistant/textile conservator, The National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul To conduct a study of Asian textiles

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Teece, Denise Marie (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Vessels of Verse: Persian Safineh Manuscripts and their Significance for Turkmen, Tiund, and Early Safavid Painting"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Temerniski, Željka, conservator of archaeological objects, National Museum in Belgrade
To study the Metropolitan Museum's storage system for textiles and research storage planning

Annette Kade Fellow
Vignon, Charlotte (Université Paris Sorbonne–Paris IV, France)
To conduct research for her dissertation topic on the history of collecting eighteenth-century French decorative arts in America

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Weinberg, Jonathan (Ph.D., Harvard University)
To conduct the research and writing of his book, Belated Bohemia: Art and Identity in the East Village

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

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
White, Veronica (Columbia University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Serio Illudere: Baroque Invenzione and the Development of the Capriccio in Italian Graphic Arts"

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

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Wolfthal, Diane (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct the research and writing for a monograph on Hugo van der Goes

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Wunder, Amanda (Ph.D., Princeton University)
To conduct research for her publication project, "The Spanish Style: Clothing, Controversy, and the Fortunes of an Empire, 1500–1700"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Zachariou, Vassiliki (MSC in Maritime Conservation Science, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom)
To study object conservation methods with a concentration on wooden objects

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