Fellowships for Art History Research and Study in Conservation

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow
Al-Saleh, Yasmine
(The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University)
To complete her dissertation, "Licit Magic the Touch and Sight of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls" and to assemble a digital exhibition of Islamic talismanic scrolls

Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellow
Babcock, Jennifer
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research on Near Eastern influence on the figured ostraca from the New Kingdom workmen's village, Deir el-Medineh

Chester Dale Fellow
Badamo, Heather
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
To complete the research and writing of her dissertation, "Among Byzantines and Muslims: Coptic Representations of Military Saints, ca. 850-1300 C.E."

Chester Dale Fellow
Baldasso, Renzo
(Ph.D., Columbia University, New York: 2007; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL)
To complete his manuscript on 15th-century printed books

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow
Banta, Andaleeb
(Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: 2007; Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College, Amherst, MA)
To prepare her dissertation on the 17th-century painter Bernardo Strozzi for publication

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Bass, Marisa Anne
(Harvard University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "The Venus of Zeeland: Jan Gossaert and the Revival of Netherlandish Antiquity"

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Bell, Esther Susan
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; 2008-2009 Theodore Rousseau Fellow, Metropolitan Museum)
To continue research for her dissertation, "Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752): Painting and Performance in 18th-Century France"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Calò, Ambra
(Ph.D. in the Archaelology of Southeast Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London: 2007; freelance consultant, Bali, Indonesia)
To conduct research on the early Southeast Asian bronzes donated to the Metropolitan Museum by Professor Samuel Eilenberg

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Campbell, Angela
(Buffalo State College, New York)
To conduct further research for her project, "A Comparative Study of Microscopic Plate-Wear in 16 Impressions of Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I (1514)", and create a chronology for two Dürer prints, Saint Jerome in His Study and Knight, Death, and the Devil, in the Metropolitan Museum's collection

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Caro, Federico
(Ph.D. University of Pavia, Italy: 2004; 2008-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Metropolitan Museum)
To complete a database of Khmer stone materials and to publish the completed results of his three years of study at the Metropolitan Museum

Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation
Casella, Luisa
(Post-Graduate degree in Art Expertise, Fundacao Ricardo Espirito Sant Silvia, Lisbon, Portugal: 2002; Graduate degree in Conservation and Restoration, Tomar Polytechnic Institute in Tomar, Portugal: 1996; 2007-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation, Metropolitan Museum)
To study practical anoxic packaging systems and to perform anoxic dark stability tests on auto chrome dyes

Annette de la Renta Fellow
Chiostrini, Giulia
(Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy: 2001; 2008-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Metropolitan Museum)
To continue her research on five early 16th-century choir tapestry fragments, The Hunt of the Frail Stag

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Civita, Francesco
(Ph.D. in Foreign Languages and Literature/Japanese Studies, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy: 1989; Curator of the Japanese Section, The Sibbert Museum, Florence, Italy)
To study the collection of Japanese Arms and Armor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and to study the organization and display methods for the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition, "The Art of the Samurai"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Cordier, Sylvain
(University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne, France)
To study, analyze, and catalogue an album of sketches from the workshop of Pierre-Antoine and Louis-Alexandre Bellangé (c. 1800-1835), presently held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints

Douglass Foundation Fellow
Deusner, Melody Barnett
(University of Delaware, Newark)
To research and write her dissertation, "A Network of Associations: Aesthetic Painting and its Patrons, 1870-1914"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow
el-Awady, Tarek
(Ph.D., Charles University, Prague: 2006; Head of Research Department, Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and General Supervisor of the Egyptian Museum)
To collaborate with Metropolitan Museum curators in the Egyptian Art department on documenting, studying, and publishing fragmentary materials gathered at the excavation of the causeway of Sahure at Abusir

Chester Dale Fellow
Fluke, Meredith
(Columbia University, New York)
To complete her dissertation, "Building Across the Sacred Landscape: The Romanesque Churches of Verona in their Urban Context"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Georgiadou, Sofia
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
To write and revise the sections of her dissertation that deal with the architecture of the Despotate of Epirus and the Empire of Trebizond

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Ghouchani, Abdullah
(M.S. in Islamic History, Humanism Sciences and Cultural Studies Research Center, Tehran: 1996; 2008-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Metropolitan Museum)
To continue his research on coins and other inscribed material excavated at Nishabur in the Metropolitan Museum's collection for future publication

Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow
Grady, Anne
(M.A. and Advanced Certificate, Buffalo State College, New York: 2007; 2008-2009 Sherman Fairchild Fellow, Metropolitan Museum)
To study the Adams Vase and the Magnolia Vase so as to better understand Tiffany & Co. production at the end of the 19th-century and its reflection of larger trends within American Decorative Arts

Bothmer Fellow
Heuer, Keely
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To study the decorative motif of painted human heads on South Italian vases, from 440 to 300 B.C.E.

Douglass Foundation Fellow
Holochwost, Catherine
(University of Delaware, Newark)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Landscape as Machine: Vision and Imagination in 19th-Century American Painting"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Hoogstede, Luuk
(Limburg Conservation Institute, Maastricht, the Netherlands: 2009)
To investigate restoration techniques for the structural conservation of panel paintings

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Johnson, Rachel
(The University of California, Santa Barbara)
To examine the works of Pieter Bruegel, his predecessors, and his contemporaries held in European collections for her dissertation entitled: "Suburban Bruegel: The Chorographical and Rhetorical Funcation of Landscape Painting in Pieter Bruegel's Antwerp"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Kamada, Yumiko
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; 2008-2009 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, Metropolitan Museum)
To continue research for her dissertation on Deccani carpets

Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Scholar
Koopstra, Anna
(M.A., University of Groningen, the Netherlands: 2004; 2008-2009 Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow, Metropolitan Museum)
To continue her work and research toward a future exhibition on Jan Gossaert.

Chester Dale Fellow
Kornfeld, Abby
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To research and write her dissertation, "Out of the Margins: Toward a Reassessment of Medieval Jewish Aesthetic Production"

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Lord, Russell
(The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
To research examples of "hybrid photography" in the Metropolitan Museum's collection

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Menshikova, Maria
(Saint Petersburg State University, Russia: 1981; Senior Research Fellow, Curator of Chinese Decorative Arts and Jewelry, Oriental Department, State Hermitage Museum)
To study the Metropolitan Museum's collection of Chinese decorative art and textiles

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Minyaev, Sergey
(Ph.D., The Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Science, Saint Petersburg, Russia: 1982; Senior Researcher, Head of the Trans-Baikal Archaeological Expediation, The Institute of Material Cultural, Saint Petersburg)
To research and complete his manuscript entitled "The Royal Cemetery of Tsaraam"

Chester Dale Fellow
Murphy, Kevin Dean
(Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL: 1992; John Rewald Professor and Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
To conduct research for his book tentatively entitled "Lafayette: Memorializing the Republic in France and America"

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Myers, Nicole
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Courbet's Nudes: Realism and the Rococo Revival"

Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow
Nazar, Volodymyr
(Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Kiev, Ukraine: 1998; Textile Conservator, National Kiev-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve, Kiev, Ukraine)
To research current methods and techniques pertaining to ecclesiastical textile conservation as well as the embroidery techniques and stylistic properties of 15th- through 18th-century church textiles in the Robert Lehman Collection.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow
Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick
(University of Cambridge, Trinity College, United Kingdom: July 2009)
To prepare her dissertation work entitled "The Rhetoric of Display in Vitruvius' De Architectura" for publication

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Noorman, Judith
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation on the oeuvre of Jacob van Loo

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
O'Connor, Ariel
(Buffalo State College, New York)
To conduct a technical analysis of pre-10th century bronzes from Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma, and Thailand

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow
Oh, Youngchan
(Ph.D., Seoul National University, Korea: 2005; Curator, Gyeongju Museum, National Museum of Korea)
To research and write an article on the influence of the art of the nomadic peoples of northern China on ancient Korean art

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Overton, Keelan
(The University of California, Los Angeles)
To conduct research for her dissertation tentatively entitled "Unraveling the Enigma: Single-Page Painting of Adil Shahi Bijapur, c. 1580-1630"

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Patton, Mary Kathleen
(The Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To make use of the museum's examination equipment to study Medieval and Old Master paintings

Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow
Rodrigues, Isa Santos
(M.A., New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2008; 2008-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Conservation, Metropolitan Museum)
To continue the study of ethnographic textiles in collaboration with the Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Roth, Ann Macy
(Ph.D., Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, IL: 1985; Clinical Associate Professor, joint appointment in Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and the Department of Art History, New York University; Director of Graduate Study of Ancient Near East and Egyptian Studies Program, New York University)
To study three Egyptian Mastaba chapels in the Metropolitan Museum's collection

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow
Rudy, Elizabeth
(Ph.D., Harvard University: 2007; 2008-2009 Chester Dale Fellow, Metropolitan Museum)
To conduct research on original etchings by 18th-century French artists, which is expected to result in the preparation of an international loan exhibition, Etching as Sketch: Peintres-graveurs in 18th-century France

Annette de la Renta Fellow
Ruiz Molina, Marina
(M.A., Official School of Conservation, Madrid, Spain: 2000; Researcher, Esteban Vincente Foundation)
To continue scientific study and treatment of Abstract Expressionist collages in the Metropolitan Museum's collection

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Serotta, Anna
(Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To provide an up-to-date evaluation of technological questions bearing on the authenticity of objects from the Egyptian collection that have been put aside for further evaluation over many years.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Shimada, Akira
(Ph.D., University of London: 2006; Assistant Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz)
To conduct research on Andhran Buddhist sculpture (ca. 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.) and build a database of principle Buddhist sites in areas of the Andhran region

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Sliwka, Jennifer
(The Johns Hopkins University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "Domenico Beccafumi and the Politics of Devotion in 16th-Century Siena"

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow
Strother, Zoë Sara
(Ph.D., Yale University: 1992; Riggio Professor of African Art, Columbia University, New York)
To conduct the research and writing of her project on iconoclasm in African art

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Suda, Alexandra
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation, "The Girona Martyrology and the Cult of Saints in Late-Medieval Bohemia"

Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow
Takahashi, Yae
(Ph.D., State University of New York: 2007; Research Fellow, Freer and Sackler Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.)
To investigate the occurrence and use of non-traditional synthetic colorants in later East Asian paintings and wood-block prints in the Metropolitan Museum's collection

Chester Dale Fellow
Weiler, Derek
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct the research and writing for his dissertation on the paintings of Mel Bochner

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Weil-Garris Brandt, Kathleen
(Ph.D,. Harvard University: 1965; permanent consultant for Renaissance Art, the Vatican Museums; Full Professor, New York University, College of Arts and Sciences and Institute of Fine Arts)
To conduct research for her project entitled "Studies in the Semiosis of Gesture, Pose, and Composition in European Art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"

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