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Fellowships for Art History Research and Study in Conservation

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Bark, Julianna (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To complete the research and writing for her dissertation on the late career of the eighteenth-century Genevan artist Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789).

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Barrett, Kerry (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation project on the oeuvre and life of Pieter Claesz Soutman.

Chester Dale Fellow
Bear, Jordan (Columbia University, New York)
To conduct research on his dissertation entitled "Matters of Conviction: The Contest of Credulity and Early Photography in Britain."

Polaire Weissman Fellow
Bermudez, Carolina (Conservator and Restorer of Cultural Heritage, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia)
To continue to study and expand on her practical knowledge of costume conservation and assist with the re-housing project, including the footwear collection.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Bincsik, Monika (Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "History of Collecting Japanese Applied Art, Especially Lacquer Pieces, Outside Japan in the 19th and 20th century, Focusing on Hungary."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Bouquet, Jonathan Santa Maria (Civica Scuola di Liuteria, Milan, Italy)
To document European non-keyboard instruments in order to properly conserve and treat the objects in the future.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Bridges, Nichole (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
To complete the research and writing for her dissertation on nineteenth-century carved tusks of the Loango Coast and Pointe Noire.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Brown, Sienna (Emory University, Georgia)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Lithographs of Robert Rauschenberg."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Capua, Rebecca (Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center, New York University, New York)
To analyze the materials and techniques used in the watercolors of John La Farge.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Caro, Federico (Ph.D., Earth Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy; PostDoc. Degree, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia, Italy)
To conduct research for his project entitled "Determining Authenticity of Artworks: the Study of the Cambodian Khmer Sculptures from the Southeast Asia Collection of the MMA."

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Carrara, Elena (University of Pisa, Italy)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Ressman Collection at the Museo Nazionale in Florence."

Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation Fellow
Casella, Luisa (Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Advanded Residency Program in Conservation, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York)
To conduct research for her project on "The anoxic enclosures for long-term preservation of photographic objects, focusing on the effectiveness of these packages in autochrome plates."

Annette Kade Charitable Trust Fellow
Coudert, Magali (Université Paris IV, Sorbonne, France; Curatorial Assistant, Musée du Louvre, France)
To conduct research and further her dissertation project on the Coptic Necropolis and General Coptic Funerary Practices.

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Coutre, Jacquelyn (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Jan Lievens, Ambition, Influence, and Originality in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands."

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Cowart, Georgia (Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Jersey)
To complete her book manuscript entitled "Watteau, Music and the Musical Theater" for future publication.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
D'Agostino, Paola (Ph.D., Universitŕ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy)
To further her research on Southern Italian Silver and Bronze sculpture for a future publication.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Dalgic, Orgu (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To continue the research and complete the writing for her dissertation entitled "Late Antique Floor Mosaics in Constantinople before the Great Palace."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Dode, Zvezdana (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
To conduct a comparative study on the silk textiles of the Mongolian period in Eurasia; and also to conduct a study on ancient terms for silk found in medieval written sources.

Hagop Kevorkian Fellow
Drakaki, Eleni (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To complete the writing of her dissertation entitled "Hard Stone Seals from Late Bronze Age Burials of the Greek Mainland: A Contextual and Historical Approach to the Study of their Ownership."

Sherman Fairchild Fellow
El-Hadidy, Lamia (Archaeological Conservater, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt)
To study and understand the latest techniques used in the field of restoration and conservation of archaeological materials.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Ghouchani, Abdullah (Professor, Tehran University, Iran)
To conduct research on the MMA excavated coins and pottery at Nishabur, focusing on the Arabic/Persian inscriptions, for future publication.

Polaire Weissman Fellow
Granata, Francesca (University of Arts, London, United Kingdom)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Transgressive Fashion: The Bahktinian Grotesque in Fashion Design from the 1980s to the Present."

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Hannah, Caroline (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York)
To continue research for her dissertation entitled "Between Art, Craft, and Design: Henry Varnum Poor and the Making of the Modern American Artist."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Hayum, Andrée (Ph.D., Harvard University, Massachusetts)
To conduct the research and writing for her project entitled "The Idea of the Renaissance in the Age of the Museum."

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Karafel, Lorraine (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation work entitled "Raphael's Woven Grotesques for the Vatican Palace: Culture, Politics, and Medici Patronage in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome."

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Kawase, Yusuke (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for his dissertation entitled "Jusepe de Ribera's Workshop Practice in Naples (1616–1652)."

Douglass Foundation Fellow
Kelly, Carolyn (M.A., Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Parsons School of Design, New York)
To conduct research for her study entitled "Materials in Nineteenth-Century American Jewelry."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Kolb, Karin (Ph.D., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany)
To continue her research for her project entitled "Cranach und Dresden, Die Werke Cranachs in der Dresdener Gemäldegalerie."

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Lavy, Paul (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles)
To conduct research on Southeast Asian stone sculptures from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Leoni, Francesca (Princeton University, New Jersey)
To complete the research and writing for her dissertation entitled "The Revenge of Ahriman: Images of divs in the Shahnama from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century."

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Long, Rebecca (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Bartolome Carducho and Italian Artists of the Spanish Court, 1580–1621."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
MacDonald, Margaret (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
To study the problem of lead white pigment degradation in medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Maguire, Henry (Ph.D., Harvard University, Massachusetts)
To conduct research into a group of ivories known as the "frame group" as a case study in the reception of Byzantine art in the west.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Mangilli Gagliardi, Elisa (Ph.D., University of Udine, Italy)
To conduct research on her project entitled "Differences and Similarities in Islamic Textiles of the Persian Safavid and Indian Mughal Courts."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Marshall, Christine (M.Sc., University of Bradford, United Kingdom)
To research and examine the original field documentation from the Metropolitan Museum's 1909 excavation of the Lisht North Cemetery.

Sherman Fairchild Fellow
Miller, Michael Alan (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, U.K.)
To continue his study on the theories and practices in the conservation of panel paintings and application of structural conservation techniques.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Moltesen, Mette (Curator, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark)
To revise, research, and rewrite her book published in 1987 entitled "Wolfgang Helbig: Brygger Jacobsen's Agent i Rom 1887–1914."

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Monti, Elizabeth (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation on the patronage of the Avignon Anti-Pope Clement VII (1378–1396).

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Morris, Ellen (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
To conduct research for her project on "Anthropomorphic Figurines as Objects-That-Act" for future publication.

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Piotrowska, Anna (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To continue research for her dissertation entitled "The Early Career of Carle Vanloo (1705–1740): Training and Practice in the Capitals of Europe."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Pisani, Linda (Ph.D., Universitŕ degli studi di Pisa, Italy)
To conduct research for her project entitled "Painting at the Threshold of the Renaissance, 1360–1420."

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Rowe, Nina (Ph.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois)
To conduct research and prepare the manuscript for her project entitled "The Jew and the Cathedral: Synagoga, Ecclesia, and Medieval Viewers" for publication.

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Sancho, Victoria (Columbia University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Rubens, Imitation, and the Construction of Individual Style."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Schultz, Julia (State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany/ University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Hildesheim, Goettingen, Holzminden, Germany)
To conduct research for her study entitled "The Use of Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and Immunoflourescence Microscopy (IFM) as Complementary Techniques for the Identification of Proteinaceous Binding Media in Art Objects."

Annette de la Renta Fellow
Shaw, Suzanna (Conservator of Frames and Furniture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia)
To conduct research in order to treat deteriorated ground layers on Chinese lacquered objects in the MMA's collection.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Sjovoll, Therese (Columbia University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Roman Palace and Art Collection of Queen Christina of Sweden."

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Smith, Kathryn (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her book project entitled "The Taymouth Hours: Stories and the Construction of the Self in Late Medieval England."

Bothmer Fellow
Sowder, Amy (Emory University, Georgia)
To conduct the research and writing for her dissertation entitled "Greek Bronze Hydriai."

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Sudul, Jennifer (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Early Works of Niki de Saint Phalle."

Chester Dale Fellow
Suing, Michael (University of South Dakota, Vermillion)
To conduct research for his project entitled "Reclaiming America's Musical Past, America's Original Museum Instrument Makers: A Survey of North American Indian Musical Instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art."

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Tagg, John (Professor of Art History & Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New York)
To conduct research for his project entitled "Politics and Meaning in Walker Evans's Photographs for The Crime of Cuba."

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Vaccaro, Mary (Ph.D., Columbia University, New York)
To conduct the research and writing for her book project entitled "Disegno: On the Use and Exchange of Drawings in Sixteenth-Century Parma."

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Vural, Aysegul (Bilkent University & Koç University, Turkey)
To conduct research for her project entitled "The Metalwork of the Early Bronze Age III: Central Anatolia and its Significance for Cultural Contacts with Eurasia and Persia."

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Weinstein, Laura (Columbia University, New York)
To conduct research for her dissertation on "Between Iran and India: Golconda Painting in the Sixteenth Century."

Chester Dale Fellow
West, Ashley (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
To revise and expand on her dissertation research for a future publication entitled "The Art of Hans Burgkmair: The Antique Past and Cultural 'Other.'"

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

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Ziffer, Irit (Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, Israel)
To conduct research on objects excavated at Yavneh in Philistia by Dr. R. Kletter from the Iron Age II period, in preparation for a future publication on the stands found at this site.

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