Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Adamjee, Qamar (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Sultanate Chandayana: An Exemplar of Cultural and Artistic Interaction in Sixteenth-Century India"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Adande, Joseph (Ph.D., Paris I, Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France)
To conduct the research and writing for a future book publication entitled "Applique Cloth in West African Art History"

Bothmer Fellow
Awan, Heather (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Sarcophagi and Funerary Display in Asia Minor and the Roman West"

Polaire Weissman Fellow
Bermudez, Carolina (Externado University, Bogotá, Colombia)
To study and expand on her practical knowledge of costume conservation

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Bonebakker, Odilia (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
To conduct research for her dissertation project entitled "Pieter Bruegel, Art Theory, and the Practice of Painting"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Breitung, Eric (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison)
To conduct research for his project entitled “Improving the Abrasion Resistance of Face Mounted Large Format Photographs”

Polaire Weissman Fellow
Carlson, Hannah (Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Pocket Narratives in Western Dress"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Cohen, Evelyn (Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, New York)
To conduct research for her study entitled "Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts from Renaissance Italy"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Cwiek, Andrzej (Ph.D., Warsaw University, Poland)
To expand and revise his dissertation entitled "Relief Decoration in the Royal Funerary Complexes of the Old Kingdom: Studies in the Development, Scene Content, and Iconography" for publication

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
D'Agostino, Paola (Ph.D., Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy)
To conduct research for his project entitled "Cosimo Fanzago and Neapolitan Baroque Metal Sculpture in American Collections"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Dalgic, Örgü (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Late Antique Floor Mosaics from Istanbul Before the Great Palace"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Del Federico, Eleonora (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
To conduct research for her project entitled "Solid-State NMR Investigations on the Lead Soap Formation in Traditional Oil Paintings"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
De la Pena McTigue, Clara (MA, Escuela de Conservación y Restaración de Bienes Culturales de Madrid, Spain)
To conduct research on her project "Incompatibilities Between Support and Media in the Conservation of Modern Works of Art on Paper"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
DeYoung, Justine (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Women in Black: Fashion, Modernity, and Modernism in Paris, 1860–1890"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Etheridge, Christopher (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
To conduct research for his dissertation entitled "Con Risolutione di Mano Formate: Francesco Villamena (1624) and the Art of Engraving in Counter-Reformation Rome"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Gagliardi, Elisa Mangilli (University of Udine, Italy)
To conduct a study and create a database of the Islamic textiles in the Museum's collection focusing on the decorative subjects of textiles

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Geymonat, Ludovico (Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)
To conduct research for his project entitled "The Transmission of Images: Means and Functions in Medieval Times"

Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellow
Graff, Sarah (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research on the Ancient Near Eastern Department's collection of second millennium B.C. stone and terracotta sculpture and cylinder seals

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Hannah, Caroline (Bard Graduate Center, Studies in Decorative Arts, New York, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation "Between Art and Design: Henry Varnum Poor"

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Jánosi, Peter (Ph.D., University of Heidelberg, Germany)
To conduct a study of the Lischt North stone reliefs and prepare a manuscript of the Middle Kingdom royal reliefs for publication

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Kaufmann, Christian (Ph.D., University of Basel, Switzerland)
To conduct research for his dissertation project on Sepik River cultures of Papua New Guinea and study Douglas Newton's fieldwork notes on this subject housed in the Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Knothe, Florian (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, England)
To continue the research and writing for his dissertation project on the Royal Gobelins workshops and their manufacture of decorative arts in 17th- and 18th-century France

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Kolb, Karin (Ph.D., Martin-Luther Universitat Halle-Wittenburg, Germany)
To further her doctoral dissertation research entitled "Cranach und Dresden. Die Werke Cranachs in der Dresdener Gemaldegalerie"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Laurenza, Domenico (Ph.D., Scuola Superione di Studi Storici, San Marino, Italy)
To conduct research for his study entitled "Illustrations of Natural History from the 15th to the 18th Centuries"

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Mann, Crawford Alexander (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
To conduct research for his dissertation entitled "When in Rome: Italian Travel and the Pursuit of the Ideal Male Body in Antebellum American Art"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Meller, Taina (EVTAK Institute of Art and Design, Vantaa, Finland)
To continue her study on the conservation and preservation of daugerreotypes with a particular focus on the Southworth and Hawes daguerreotype collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and to also conduct a study into the coatings materials used in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Mercier, Jacques (University de Lyon, France)
To conduct a study of Ethiopian art

Sherman Fairchild Fellow
Miller, Michael Alan (Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England)
To study the structural conservation of panel paintings

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Nekrasova, Ekaterina (Graduate School of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Vegetal Design in Medieval Limoges Enamels in the Collections of The Hermitage and Other Leading Museums"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Piechatschek, Nadine (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Bern, Switzerland)
To study upholstery conservation, methods, and techniques

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Piotrowska, Anna (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Carle Vanloo (1705–1765) and the Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century French History Painting"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Ramirez-Weaver, Eric (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To continue and expand his research on his dissertation entitled "Carolingian Innovation and Observation in the Paintings and Star Catalogues of Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, M.S. 3307"

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Rice, Louise (Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, New York)
To conduct the research and writing for her manuscript entitled "Roman Baroque Thesis Prints: Aristocratic Education and the Arts in Seventeenth-Century Rome" for future publication

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Rosenfield, Yael (Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York)
To conduct research on ethnographic textiles, particularly Islamic and Asian objects

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Rossi-Rognoni, Gabriele (Ph.D., State University of Pavia, Italy)
To conduct research into the archives of the Mary Elizabeth Brown collection of musical instruments, with a focus on the Italian-American art trade in this field

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Saminski, Alexander (Ph.D., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
To conduct research for his project entitled "Illuminated Manuscripts from Antiochi Byzantine: Attempts at Cultural Assimilation of the Christian East"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Santori, Flaminia Gennari (Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
To conduct research for her project entitled "European Art in America from Private Collecting to Institutional Policy, the Exhibitions and Sale of the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (New York, 1912–1917)"

Chester Dale Fellow
Sapirstein, Ray (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Texas)
To expand on his dissertation entitled "Out from Behind the Mask: The Illustrated Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Photography at Hampton Institute," and to study the Walker Evans Archives and Evans's interest in African-American subjects

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Sardar, Marika (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research on the Islamic Art Department’s collection of objects from the Deccan region of India

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Schneider, Lindsey (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Late Career of Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Painting after 1650"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Simonishvili, Nino (Ph.D., Institute of History of Georgian Art, Tbilisi, Georgia)
To complete the research and writing of her manuscript entitled "The Transmission of Artistic Ideas in Medieval Georgia (11th–12th centuries)" for future publication

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Sinitsyna, Natalia (Head of Research and Conservation of Archaeological Textile, State Moscow Kremlin Museum, Moscow, Russia)
To conduct research on ethnographic textiles and study new methods of conservation

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To continue the research and writing for her dissertation entitled "Della Dignita and Nobilita delle Donne: Woman as Artist, Patron, and Allegory in Seventeenth-Century Florence"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Tuncer, Ayse (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey)
To conduct conservation research and analysis on the Ottoman Decorative Arts collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Annette de la Renta Fellow
Unruh, Julie (Assistant Conservator, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York)
To conduct research for her study of Loma Negra Pseudomorphs

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow
Veys, Fanny Wonu (Sainsbury Research Institute, University of East Anglia, England)
To expand on her dissertation entitled "Barkcloth in Tonga and its Neighboring Areas 1773–1900: Presenting the Past in the Present"

Annette Kade Fellow
Vignon, Charlotte (University of Paris-IV, Sorbonne, Paris, France)
To continue her research for her dissertation topic on the history of collecting 18th-century French decorative arts in America

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
White, Veronica (Columbia University, New York, New York)
To continue the research and writing for her dissertation entitled "Serio Illudere: Baroque Invenzione and the Development of Capriccio"

Chester Dale Fellow
Wijegoonaratna, Michele (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Tradition, Innovation, and the Role of the Sitter: Portraits and Self-Portraits by Otto Dix, 1912–1933"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Xin, Wu (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
To expand and revise her dissertation entitled "Central Asia in the Context of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (6th–4th centuries B.C.)" for future publication

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Yao, Erica (Stanford University, Stanford, California)
To conduct the research and writing for her dissertation entitled "Systems of Display at the Qing Dynasty Court: Visualizing Political Authority in Eighteenth-Century China"

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