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Home>Research>Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts>Current Members

# Current Members

**2023–2024**

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts resident community of international scholars consists of the Kress-Beinecke Professor, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, the A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, and approximately 18 fellows at any one time, including senior fellows, visiting senior fellows, guest scholars, research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and predoctoral fellows.

In addition, the Center supports an internship program with Howard University and approximately 15 predoctoral fellows who are conducting research elsewhere, both in the United States and abroad.

Professors & Lecturers

Kress-Beinecke Professor
Nancy J. Troy
**Stanford University**
About this professorship
Andrew W. Mellon Professor
Adriana Zavala
**Tufts University**
About this professorship

Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor
Pamela H. Smith
**Columbia University**
About this professorship
73rd A. W. Mellon Lecturer
Anna Deavere Smith
**Writer/Actress**
About this lecture series

Fellows

Senior FellowsAbout this fellowship program

**Brian D. Goldstein, Swarthmore College**Paul Mellon Senior Fellow*If Architecture Were for People: The Life and Work of J. Max Bond Jr.*

**Robb Hernández, Fordham University**Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow*Transplanetary: Speculative Arts of the Americas*

**Pamela Lee, Yale University**William C. Seitz Senior Fellow*The Art of Small War*

**Walter Simon Melion, Emory University**Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow*Praying through Prints: Technologies of Affective Piety and Image-Based Devotion in Dutch and Flemish Prayer Books, 1480–1680*

**Kathryn Blair Moore, University of Connecticut**Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow*The Other Space of the Arabesque: Italian Renaissance Art at the Limits of Representation*

**Alla Vronskaya, Universität Kassel**Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow*Environmental Colonization: Architecture, Climate, and Geography in the Cold War Soviet Union*

Visiting Senior FellowsAbout this fellowship program

**George Baker, University of California, Los Angeles**Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March–May 2024*Paul Thek and the Italian South: From Pop to the Popular, from Process to Procession*

**Ragnhild Bø, University of Oslo**Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, June–August 2024*Christ Appearing to His Mother in Late Medieval Art: Visualizing the Resurrection across Convents, Parishes, and Courts*

**Sarah Elizabeth Fraser, Heidelberg University**Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, March–April 2024*The Role of Tibetan Artists in Forging the Modern in Chinese Art: Alterity in Buddhist Pictorial Praxis*

**Margaret L. Laird, Wilmington, DE**Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January–February 2024*Drawing Beasts: Narrativity and the Ancient Roman Imagination*

**Jody Patterson, The Ohio State University**Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2024*Modernizing the South: Robert Gwathmey and the Legacies of the New Deal in American Art of the 1940s*

**Jennifer Pruitt, University of Wisconsin–Madison**Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2024*Inheriting an Islamic Golden Age: Globalism, National Identity, and Islamic Art History in the Architecture of the Arabian Gulf*

**James A. van Dyke, University of Missouri**Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January–February 2024*Shell Oil and the Political Confrontation of the Arts*

**Rashmi Viswanathan, University of Hartford**Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2024*Producing the Global Modern: Private Politics of Cultural Ambassadorship*

Visiting Guest Artist

**Dario Robleto, Houston, TX**Visiting Guest Artist, March–April 2024*Until We Are Forged: Hymns for the Elements *

Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Fellows

**James Meyer**Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art*What Happened to the Institutional Critique?*

**Andrea Nelson**Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art*Reading Modern Photobooks*

**Susan B. Wertheim**Office of Architecture and Engineering, National Gallery of Art*Contemplating Contemplative Spaces: The Power of Abstraction in Modern Architecture*

Postdoctoral FellowsAbout this fellowship program

**Maria Gabriella Matarazzo**Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023–2025*Beyond “Buon Fresco”: Experimenting with Oil in Wall Painting, c. 1500–1700*

**Benjamin O. Murphy, Case Western Reserve University**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022–2024*Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art*

**Anni A. Pullagura, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston**Center/YCBA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023–2025*Forms of Feeling: Collecting the Nation for Contemporary Cultural Institutions*

Predoctoral Dissertation Fellows (in Residence)About this fellowship program

**Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen, Johns Hopkins University**Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2022–2024*Untitled: Nasreen Mohamedi, Geeta Kapur, and Abstraction in Internationalist India, 1950–2016*

**Justin M. Brown, Yale University**Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2022–2024*Afro-Surinamese Calabash Art in the Era of Slavery and Emancipation*

**Christopher Daly, Johns Hopkins University**David E. Finley Fellow, 2021–2024*Painting in Lucca in the Late 15th Century: A Problem in Artistic Geography*

**Erin Dickey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill**Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2022–2024*“Bad Information”: Networks, Knowledges, and Feminist Art in the 1980s*

**Bianca Hand, Johns Hopkins University**Twenty-Four-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2022–2024*What Is Assyria without the Other: The Subversive Role of Alterity in the Reliefs and Architecture of Sargon II’s Royal Palace at Khorsabad*

**Aleksander Musiał, Princeton University**Paul Mellon Fellow, 2021–2024*Immersion: Classical Reception and Eastern European Transformations of Hygiene Architecture, c. 1600–1830*

**Kelvin Parnell Jr., University of Virginia**Wyeth Fellow, 2022–2024*Casting Bronze, Recasting Race: American Sculpture and the Bronze Economy (1840–1890)*

Predoctoral Dissertation Fellows (Not in Residence)About this fellowship program

**David P. Bardeen, University of California, Los Angeles**David E. Finley Fellow, 2022–2025*Arboreal Formations: The Dynamics of Wood in Italian Intarsia and Painting, 1450–1525*

**Robyn A. Barrow, University of Pennsylvania**Paul Mellon Fellow, 2022–2025*Tracking North: Art, Ecology, and Exchange in the Medieval Nordic World*

**Chasitie Brown, The University of Texas at Austin**Twelve-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2023–2024*The Dormant Scar: Embodying Blackness in the*Queloides*Exhibition Series in Cuba, the United States, and Spain (1997–2012)*

**Rowanne Dean, University of Chicago**Paul Mellon Fellow, 2023–2026*Valuing Virtuosity: Goldsmiths’ Work in Northwestern Europe, c. 1350–1500*

**Ryan Eisenman, University of Pennsylvania**David E. Finley Fellow, 2023–2026*The Limoges Champlevé Enamel Industry, c. 1180–1280*

**William Green, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey**Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2023–2024*Looking Back/Looking Ahead: Alternative and Antiquated Process Photography in North America, c. 1970*

**Hannah Kaemmer, Harvard University**Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2023–2024*Expertise and Empire: Fortification Building and the English Ordnance Office, 1660–1714*

**Chaeri Lee, Indiana University**Twenty-Four-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2023–2025*Āthār: Visualizing Vestiges of Time in 19th-Century Iran*

**James H. Miller, Princeton University**Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2023–2025*Fossils for a Future Time: David Smith and the Sculpting of Traces*

**Celia Rodríguez Tejuca, Johns Hopkins University**Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2023–2025*From the Ground Up: Picturing Scientific Knowledge in the Late 18th-Century Spanish Americas*

**Julia Silverman, Harvard University**Wyeth Fellow, 2023–2025*Unmaking Tradition: Native Designers and the Representation of Knowledge during the “Indian New Deal”*

**Wenjie Su, Princeton University**Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2023–2025*Simulating Time: Cosmological Analogies, Cross-Cultural Similes, and the Transmission of Clockwork Objects between Early Modern Europe and China*

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel AbroadAbout this fellowship program

**Kale Doyen, University of Pittsburgh**

**Julia Hamer-Light, University of Delaware**

**Emily Kang, University of California, Berkeley**

**Joseph Mizhakii Zordan, Harvard University**

Interns

Howard University Undergraduate InternsAbout this program

**Keauna Brantley, 2022–2024**

**Jada Brooks, 2023–2025**

**Clay Cauley, 2023–2025**

**Amaya Charley, 2022–2024**

**Aletheia Couts, 2023–2025**

**Dana Goodridge, 2022–2024**

**Aneesah Lawrence, 2023**

**Kennedy Martin, 2022–2024**

**Sacha Reid, 2022–2024**

**Miles Kenyan Stewart, 2023–2025**

**Munyang Tengen, 2022–2024**

**Elroi Yonatan, 2023–2025**

Research Associates

Postdoctoral Research AssociatesAbout our research projects

**Gloria de Liberali**Postdoctoral Research Associate*Artistic Imagination and Global Histories in Early Modern Bolognese Painting*

**Molly Superfine**Postdoctoral Research Associate*Ruins and Remains: Performative Sculpture and the Politics of Touch in the 1970s*

**Fulvia Zaninelli**Postdoctoral Research Associate*A Legacy at the Nexus of the Art Market and Cultural Philanthropy: Alessandro Contini Bonacossi’s Connections with the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and the Boston Cultural Elite during the 1920s*

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