Meet the Fellows
The Department of European Paintings encourages the development of young scholars and aspiring curators in many ways, including support for research projects and opportunities to work with the staff.
Meet the 2022 – 2023 Fellows
Caitlin Miller is a PhD candidate at Columbia University specializing in early modern painting and drawing (1300-1650) with a focus on central and northern Italy. Her dissertation project “Leonardeschi Reconsidered: Giovanni Boltraffio, Andrea Solario, and Bernardino Luini, 1490-1530” rethinks the intersections between politics and workshop spaces/practices in Renaissance Milan. Her work has been supported by the Casa Muraro Research Library and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Caitlin received her BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her MA and MPhil from the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia. Before joining the Met as the 2022-2023 Eugene V. Thaw Fellow, she held positions at the Detroit Institute of Arts as well as the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Anna studied art history and French at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she completed her PhD in 2021. A specialist in eighteenth-century French art and art criticism, she will spend the fellowship developing a book manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation, ‘The mute who speaks: women’s voices on art in prerevolutionary France.’ Her research interests include marginal literatures, oral culture, and sociability, particularly as they relate to the overlapping histories of class, gender, and sexuality.
Marina Kliger holds an MA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in September 2020. Her dissertation, "Une Histoire Particulière: The Troubadour Style and Gendered Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century France," examines the gender politics of history painting after the French Revolution vis-a-vis women collectors' historical self-fashioning across media. She has previously held positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. As the inaugural Thaw Fellow at The Met, she is researching the provenance, exhibition, and publication histories of the museum's nineteenth-century European paintings.
Natalie Prizel holds a Ph.D. in English from Yale University and has served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows and as visiting assistant professor at Bard College. Her first book, "Innocent Eyes: Victorian Ethical Optics and Aberrant Bodies," is under review, and she is at work on two projects, one called "Pre-Raphaelite in Black" and the other, "Dark Waters: Oceanic Aesthetics, Black Bodies, and the British Empire." Prizel’s work has been published in Victorian Poetry, GLQ, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies, and Literature Compass, among other venues. She has participated in exhibitions at the Yale Center for British Art and Princeton University Art Museum, as well as the Met's "Crip the Met" initiative.