The American Wing Fellows

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 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 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 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.