European Paintings Fellows

Jessica Weiss is Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research focuses on the Spanish reception of Netherlandish art during the fifteenth century and the ways in which artistic taste coincided with cultural and political trends. She is especially interested in the patronage of Queen Isabel of Castile and her court artist Juan de Flandes. Her publications include “Relics of Los Reyes Católicos: Spanish Habsburg Family Heirlooms and Dynastic Identity” in Imagery and Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (Brepols, 2018) and “Art Commissioned and Collected by Queen Isabel” in the Companion to Isabel la Católica (Brill, 2022).

Samantha Small is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation, “Franz von Stuck, Painter Provocateur,” interprets the Symbolist artist’s allegories amidst Wilhelmine Germany’s profound social transformations, scientific developments, and imperialist Orientalismus. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Samuel J. Kress Foundation. Small previously worked in the Curatorial Department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she was involved in exhibitions including Giacometti and Doug Wheeler: Synthetic Desert, among others. She holds an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a BA from George Washington University.

Virginia Girard is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University focusing on the art and environment of early modern Europe. Her dissertation recovers localized myths and folklore associated with the climate and geology of late medieval Flanders to consider their influence on the development of the landscape genre. Prior to starting the PhD program, Virginia completed her MA with distinction at the Courtauld Institute of Art and her BA at Cornell University with honors. She has held positions at the gallery Les Enluminures, Pace Gallery, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Orfeo Cellura holds a dual PhD in Art History (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata,” USI); his dissertation examined landscape painting produced in Rome in the first half of the nineteenth century with a focus on Giovan Battista Bassi (1784–1852). He has received internships and fellowships in Italy (Bologna’s Fondazione Zeri; Venice’s Fondazione Cini) and visited Copenhagen’s Statens Museum for Kunst as a research assistant to study Danish artists. His research focuses on the process of painting and drawing outdoors from the early seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries in Rome, the identification of artists and places depicted, and the studies of nephology, geology, and botany in connection with landscape art.

Natalie Prizel holds a PhD 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.

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.

Lindsay Wells was a Chester Dale Fellow from 2019–2020.

Astrid Harth was a Chester Dale Fellow from 2019–2020.

Emma Capron was a Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow from 2019–2020.

Hannah Segrave was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow from 2018–2019.

Isabella Lores-Chavez was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2018–2019.

Timothy McCall was a J. Clawson Mills Scholar from 2017–2018.

Joyce Klein Koerkamp was a Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow from 2017–2018.

Aaron Wile was a Chester Dale Fellow from 2016–2017.

Mattia Vinco was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow from 2016–2017.

Rozemarijn Landsman was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2016–2017.

Daniella Berman was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2016–2017.

Melissa Yuen was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow from 2015–2016.

Linda Marie Mueller was a Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow from 2015–2016.

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow from 2015–2016.

Kjell Wangensteen was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2014–2015.

Anna-Claire Stinebring was a Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow from 2014–2015.

Eva Reifert was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow from 2014–2015.

Mauro Minardi was a Chester Dale Fellow from 2014–2015.

Rodolfo Maffeis was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow from 2014–2015.

Elliott Wise was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow from 2013–2014.

Christine Seidel was the Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow from 2013–2014.

Tiffany Racco was a Chester Dale Fellow from 2013–2014.

Anna Koopstra was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2013–2014.

Denis Ton was a Chester Dale Fellow from 2012–2013.

Nathaniel Prottas was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2012–2013.

Elizabeth Perkins was a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Interpretive Fellow from 2012–2013.

Ronda Kasl was a Chester Dale Fellow from 2012–2013.

Sandra Hindriks was a Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow from 2012–2013.

Linda Borean was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow from 2012–2013.

Angelique Wille was a Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow from 2011–2012.

David Pullins was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow from 2011–2012.

Emily Perreault was a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Interpretive Fellow from 2011–2012.

Jeongho Park was The Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow from 2011–2012.

Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2011–2012.

Erin Donovan was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2011–2012.

Robin Thomas was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2010–2011.

Nathaniel Prottas was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow from 2010–2011.

Matteo Mazzalupi was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow from 2010–2011.

Elizabeth Ann Nogrady was a J. Clawson Mills Scholar from 2010–2011.

Lauren Cannady was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2010–2011.

Jennifer Sliwka was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2009–2010.

Judith Noorman was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2009–2010.

Rachel Johnson was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2009–2010.

Marisa Bass was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2009–2010.

Andaleeb Banta was The Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow from 2009–2010.

Anna Koopstra was a Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow from 2008–2009.

Jesse Locker was a Chester Dale Fellow from 2008–2009.

Marina Daiman was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2008–2009.

Esther Bell was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow from 2008–2009.