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Home>Research>Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts>Publications>Center Report>Center 43>People

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# People

Center 43

## Board of Advisors

**Marisa Bass**, Yale UniversitySeptember 2022–August 2025

**Stephen J. Campbell**, Johns Hopkins UniversitySeptember 2020–August 2023

**Valerie Cassel Oliver**, Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsSeptember 2022–August 2025

**Maria Gough**, Harvard UniversitySeptember 2020–August 2023

**Byron Ellsworth Hamann**, Villa I Tatti, Harvard UniversitySeptember 2022–August 2025

**Joan Kee**, University of MichiganSeptember 2021–August 2024

**Alicia Walker**, Bryn Mawr CollegeSeptember 2020–August 2023

Curatorial Liaison

**Franklin Kelly**, National Gallery of Art Christiane Ellis Valone Curator of American Paintings September 2021–August 2024

## Special Selection Committees

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad

**Nicole Fleetwood**, Rutgers University February 2021–March 2023

**Jessica L. Horton**, University of Delaware February 2021–March 2023

Howard University Undergraduate Internships

**Roger Lawson**, National Gallery of Art2023–2025 internship cohort

**Jeannette Ibarra Shindell**, National Gallery of Art2023–2025 internship cohort

**Haywood Turnipseed**, National Gallery of Art2023–2025 internship cohort

Postdoctoral Fellowships

**Eddie Chambers**, The University of Texas at AustinOctober 2019–February 2023

**David Young Kim**, University of PennsylvaniaNovember 2020–February 2024

**Laura E. Pérez**, University of California, BerkeleyNovember 2020–February 2024

David Young Kim, Laura E. Pérez, and Eddie Chambers

## Staff

Deans

**Steven Nelson**, Dean

**Peter M. Lukehart**, Associate Dean for Fellowships and Fellows Programs

**Kaira M. Cabañas**, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Publications (from March 2023)

Administration

**Helen Tangires**, Center Administrator

**Nathalie Meza**, Assistant Administrator for Budget and Accounting

Programs

**Sarah Battle**, Coordinator of Academic Programs and Publications (from October 2022)

**Gary Calcagno**, Gallery Support Specialist (from October 2022)

**Thomas Edwards**, Fellowship Officer (from May 2023)

**Elise Ferone**, Center Support Specialist

**Frances Grant**, Center Support Specialist (to August 2022)

**Emily Koller-Apelskog**, Fellows Program Coordinator

**Jen Rokoski**, Communications Officer

**Matthew J. Westerby**, Digital Research Officer

**Andy Wolanski**, Fellowship Officer (to January 2023)

Research

**Angélica Becerra**, Postdoctoral Research Associate

**Gloria de Liberali**, Postdoctoral Research Associate                                      

**Fulvia Zaninelli**, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Exhibition tour of* A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur* at the National Museum of Asian Art, led by Dipti Khera, cocurator and Center Ittleson Fellow (2009–2011), March 2023

## Members

Center professors, fellows, and staff, May 2023. Photo: John Schwartz

**H. Perry Chapman**, University of Delaware (emerita)Kress-Beinecke Professor, 2022–2023

**Adriana Zavala**, Tufts UniversityAndrew W. Mellon Professor, 2022–2024

**Gail Feigenbaum**, San Diego, CAEdmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2023

**Stephen D. Houston**, Brown University72nd A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, spring 2023

Senior Fellows

**Morten Steen Hansen**, Danish Academy in RomeAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, fall 2022*Idol-Phobia in the Spanish Empire: Translating the Sacred at the Escorial*

**Marius B. Hauknes**, University of Notre DameAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow*The Medieval Image of Chaos as the Image of the Other*

**Angela Ho**, George Mason UniversitySamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow*Defining Self and Other: The Dutch East India Company’s Encounters with Chinese Culture, 1602–1740*

**Christopher Lakey**, Rhinebeck, NYAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2023*The Materials of Anachronism: Gold Ground Painting during the Long Middle Ages (1200–1600)*

**Sarah Lopez**, University of PennsylvaniaPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, spring 2023*Architectural History Is Migrant History: Construction Labor and Cantera Stone in Mexico and the United States*

**Megan R. Luke**, University of Southern CaliforniaWilliam C. Seitz Senior Fellow*Sculpture in an Age of Mass Reproduction*

**Rune Nyord**, Emory UniversitySamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow*Nocturnal Propensities: Mortuary Religion and Ontology in the Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom*

**Alessandra Raengo**, Georgia State UniversityPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, fall 2022*Liquid Blackness in Contemporary Visual Arts: Black Study as Aesthetic Practice*

Adriana Zavala presents her research to Center members and National Gallery staff, September 2022

Visiting Senior Fellows

**James M. Córdova**, University of Colorado BoulderAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 2023*Sacralizing Conquest: The Spanish-Aztec War in Religious Art*

**Anastasia Dakouri-Hild**, University of VirginiaLeonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022*The World In Between: Egypt, Wawat, Kush, and Meroe in Africa*

**Al-An deSouza**, University of California, BerkeleyPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2022*Disturbances in the Force: Reimagining America through Its Art Histories*

**Ann C. Huppert**, University of WashingtonAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022*Building Knowledge: The Culture of Construction in 16th-Century Rome*

**Kiki Karoglou**, New York, NYAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022*MANIA: Narratives of Madness in Classical Art*

**Michele Lamprakos**, University of Maryland, College ParkPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022*Memento Mauri: The Afterlife of the Great Mosque of Córdoba*

**Nancy Micklewright**, Silver Spring, MDPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2023*Fashion in a Global City: Dress and the Camera in Late Ottoman Istanbul*

**Allison Morehead**, Queen’s UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2022*Edvard Munch and the Medicalization of Modern Life*

**Carol McMichael Reese**, Tulane UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2022*Race, Housing, and Community Design in the Company Towns of the US Canal Zones, 1920–1960*

**Alex Dika Seggerman**, Rutgers University–NewarkLeonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 2022*Art Histories of Antebellum American Islam*

**Tanya Sheehan**, Colby CollegeBeinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2023*After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art*

**Heather Wolfe**, Folger Shakespeare LibraryPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2022*Paper Matters: The Socio-Materiality of Early Modern Paper*

Rune Nyord, former fellow Pamela O. Long, Ann C. Huppert, and Michele Lamprakos at the Center’s opening reception, September 2022

Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Fellows 

**Danielle Hahn**, National Gallery of Art, Department of Music Programs*We Gather Together: The Role of Music Festivals in Healing and Rebuilding Communities following Periods of War, Pandemic, Famine, Displacement, and Other Epic Disasters*

**Paige Rozanski**, National Gallery of Art, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art*USCO: A Meditation on Technology and Mysticism and the Creation of a Psychedelic Aesthetic*

Postdoctoral Fellows

**Nisa Ari**Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2023*Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and “The Welfare of Palestine,” 1876–1948*

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

Guest Scholar

**Kendra Greendeer**, University of Wisconsin–MadisonPaul Mellon Guest Predoctoral Fellow*Rematriating Indigeneity in Contemporary Native American Arts*

Predoctoral Fellows

in residence

**Davida Fernández-Barkan**, Harvard UniversityDavid E. Finley Fellow, 2020–2023*Mural Diplomacy: Mexico, the United States, and France at the 1937 *Exposition Internationale* in Paris*

**Rheagan Eric Martin**, University of MichiganSamuel H. Kress Fellow, 2021–2023*Printed, Painted, and Illuminated: The Expanding Visual Culture of Venetian Printed Books (1469–1517)*

**Anthony J. Meyer**, University of California, Los AngelesAndrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2021–2023*The Givers of Things: Nahua Religious Leaders and the Art of Making Gifts in the Mexica and Early Modern Worlds*

**Cleo Nisse**, Columbia UniversityPaul Mellon Fellow, 2020–2023*Unraveling Canvas: Textile Supports and Venetian Painting from Bellini to Tintoretto*

**Delphine Sims**, University of California, BerkeleyWyeth Fellow, 2021–2023*(Re)surfacing Black Presence: Photography, Black Women’s Bodies, and Geographies*

**Zsofi Valyi-Nagy**, University of ChicagoTwenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2021–2023*Vera Molnár’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe*

Cleo Nisse, Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, Kendra Greendeer, H. Perry Chapman, Anthony J. Meyer, Davida Fernández-Barkan, Delphine Sims, and Rheagan Eric Martin, May 2023

Not in residence

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

**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*

**Barbora Bartunkova**, Yale UniversityTwelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2022–2023*Sites of Resistance: Anti-Fascism and the Czechoslovak Avant-Garde*

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

**Kirsten J. Burke**, Harvard UniversityRobert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2022–2023*The Art of Writing in Renaissance Germany: Johann Neudörffer’s Calligraphic Revolution*

**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*

**Catherine L. Nuckols**, Tulane UniversityTwelve-Month Ittleson Fellow, 2022–2023*Unfolding the Sign: Iconography and Figuration in Maya Full-Figure Inscriptions*

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

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad

**Alexandra Artamonova**, Northwestern University

**Graham Feyl**, University of California, Santa Barbara

**Janina López**, University of Pittsburgh

**Brandee Marlese Newkirk**, Duke University

Angélica Becerra, Gary Calcagno, and Kiki Karoglou during a tour of the exhibition Sargent and Spain, December 2022

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