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

# Postdoctoral Fellows

A list of former postdoctoral fellows at the Center and their research projects. Learn more about these fellowships.

2022–2024

**Benjamin O. Murphy**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art* (2023)

2021–2023

**Nisa Ari**Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow*Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and “The Welfare of Palestine,” 1876–1948 *(2023)*Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and “The Welfare of Palestine,” 1876–1948 *(2022)

2020–2022

**Ellen Tani**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*Charles Gaines and Black Conceptual Practice* (2022)*Black Conceptual Practice, 1970–1985 *(2021)

2018–2020

**Rachel Grace Newman**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*To Search for Beauty in the Ruins: Nineteenth-Century Jamaica and the Work of William Berryman* (2020)*William Berryman and His Worlds: Art Production and Patronage in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica* (2019)

2016–2018

**Megan C. McNamee**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*Picturing Number in the Central Middle Ages *(2018)*Picturing Number: Denumeration and Representation in Europe, c. 1000* (2017)

2015–2017

**Fernando Loffredo**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*A Poetic Urgency: Sculpture and Poetry in Dialogue in the Early Modern World* (2017)*A Corsair History of Sculpture: Abducting Italian Fountains in the Early Modern Mediterranean*** **(2016)

2014–2016

**Lihong Liu**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*The Real Scene: Painting, Life, and Place in China, 1450–1550*** **(2016)*The Real Scene: Painting and Place in China, 1450–1550 *(2015)

2013–2015

**Caroline O. Fowler**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*Absence Made Present: An Early Modern History of Drawing and the Senses* (2015)*Absence Made Present: Drawing the Memory Body, 1400–1750* (2014)

2012–2014

**Stephen Hart Whiteman**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)*  (2014)*Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)* (2013)

2011–2013

**Łukasz Stanek**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*Henri Lefebvre's “Vers une architecture de la jouissance” (1973): Toward an Architectural Research*

2010–2011

**Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2010–October 2011*Vitruvius on Display: Domestic Decor and Roman Self-Fashioning at the End of the Republic*

2009–2011

**Megan E. O’Neil**University of Southern CaliforniaA. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures*

2009–2010

**Hendrik W. Dey**Hunter College of the City University of New YorkA. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*Architecture, Ceremony, and the Construction of Authority in Late Antiquity*

2007–2009

**Douglas Brine**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*The Content and Context of Wall-Mounted Memorials in the Burgundian Netherlands*

2006–2008

**Amy Freund**Southern Methodist UniversityA. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow*Revolutionary Likenesses: Portraiture and Politics in France, 1789–1804*

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