The American Wing Fellows
Current
Manon Gaudet
Manon Gaudet is a doctoral candidate at Yale University where she studies nineteenth and twentieth-century North American art. Her dissertation is a visual and material history of the Dawes Act, a federal policy which posed private property as a strategy aimed at dismantling Native American sovereignty. She has worked on projects at the Smithsonian Institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Carleton University Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, and the National Museum of the American Indian. Her scholarship has been published in Third Text, Border Crossings, and Art Journal.
Mónica Ramírez
Mónica is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University (New York City). She is the author of the book, The Ocean as Landscape. Pageant of the Pacific: the mural maps of Miguel Covarrubias (2018). Her work has been published in academic journals such as Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (UNAM), Investigaciones Geográficas (IGG, UNAM) and Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture. Her scholarship focuses on the history of transpacific imaginaries and the creative possibilities of artistic and scientific cartographies
Past
Joseph Zordan
In residence in the American Wing, during the 2023-24 academic year, Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University. His work examines the affectual and material afterlives of political violence through Indigenous and American architecture, decorative arts, and painting. In particular, Joseph is interested in works related to diplomacy, homemaking, and remembrance from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has written for the American Folk Art Museum, British Art Studies Journal, Brooklyn Rail, October, Yale School of Art, among others. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation.
Katie Loney
Katie Loney is a PhD candidate in History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in nineteenth-century art and design of the U.S. and the Anglo-Indian world. In the American Wing, she is undertaking dissertation research that reexamines the work of Lockwood de Forest and the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company in relation to the global circulation of luxury goods.
Louisa M. Raitt
Louisa M. Raitt is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, focusing on 15th- to 18th-century art of the Spanish World. Her research involves artistic expressions of religio-political controversies, the fabrication and trade of export objects, and production and collection as vehicles of self-fashioning. In the American Wing, she pursues projects related to Colonial Latin American art.
Ramey Mize
Ramey Mize is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in nineteenth-century U.S., Latin American, and Native American art. Her dissertation, “Battle Grounds: Painting, War, and Witness in American Visual Culture, 1861–1901,” illuminates the multiplicity of artistic representations and challenges surrounding three conflicts that shaped American history: the U.S. Civil War, the Black Hills War, and the Spanish-Cuban-American-Filipino War.