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Home>Research>Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts>Current Members>Former Members>Andrew W. Mellon Professors

# Andrew W. Mellon Professors

This two-year position was established in 1994 with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Mellon Professor is chosen to serve two consecutive academic years and is free to pursue independent research.

2022–2024

**Adriana Zavala**Tufts University*Networks *(2023)

2020–2022

**Huey Copeland**University of Pennsylvania*Black Being and Modernist Iconicity *(2022)*Modern Art and the Black Anthological *(2021)

2018–2020

**Steven Nelson**University of California, Los Angeles*Structural Adjustment: Mapping, Geography, and the Visual Cultures of Blackness* (2020)*On the Underground Railroad / The Black Modernisms Seminars* (2019)

2016–2018

**Estelle Lingo**University of Washington, Seattle*Unbelievable: Rethinking Caravaggio’s Religious Art* (2018)*Mochi’s Edge and Bernini’s Baroque, Caravaggio’s Religious Art, and The Grand Tour from the Italian Perspective** *(2017)

2014–2016

**Paul B. Jaskot**DePaul University*Mapping the Construction Industry in Interwar Germany (1914–1945): Digital Methods and Architectural Historical Sources*** **(2016)*Building, *Trotz Alledem! *Mapping Construction in Germany, 1914–1924** *(2015)

2012–2014

**Lynne Cooke**New York City*Outside In: A Study of the Interface Between Mainstream and Self-Taught Art in the United States in the Twentieth Century*****(2014)*Outside In: A Study of the Interface Between Mainstream and Self-Taught Art in the United States in the Twentieth Century *(2013)

2010–2012

**Carmen C. Bambach**The Metropolitan Museum of Art*The Quest for Authenticity in Michelangelo’s Drawings *(2012)

2008–2010

**Miguel Falomir**Museo Nacional del Prado

2006–2008

**Elizabeth Hill Boone**Tulane University

2004–2006

**Alexander Nagel**University of Toronto

2002–2004

**Caroline Elam***The Burlington Magazine*

2000–2002

**Nicholas Penny**National Gallery, London

1998–2000

**Malcolm Bell III**University of Virginia

1996–1998

**David Freedberg**Columbia University

1994–1996

**Elizabeth Cropper**Johns Hopkins University

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