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Fellowships for Art History Research and Study in Conservation

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Baroni, Alessandra (Ph.D., University of Utrecht, the Netherlands: 2007; Assistant Professor, University of Siena, Italy)
To conduct research for her project "Sixteenth–Eighteenth Century European Preparatory Drawings for Prints in the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art."

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Bell, Esther (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation "Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694–1752): Painting and Performance in Eighteenth-Century France."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Bernier, Hélène (Ph.D. in Anthropology, Université de Montreal, Canada: 2005; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park)
To conduct the research and writing for her project "Symbols in Daily Life: Contextual Use of Decorated Pottery in Moche Households" for future publication.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Bush, Olga (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: 2006; Adjunct lecturer, SUNY, The College at New Paltz, New York)
To prepare her dissertation "'Adorned with the Splendor of the Dwelling': Weaving Texts, Reading Textiles, and Constructing Social Space in the Alhambra" for publication.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Cafà, Valeria (Ph.D., History of Architecture, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy: 2004; Post-Doctoral fellowship, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy)
To conduct research for her study "Restoring Antiquities: Renaissance Approaches to Ancient Sculpture."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Capua, Rebecca (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To research the use of Japanese materials by American artists in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Caro, Federico (IUSS—Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, Italy)
To collect and analyze rock samples from documented quarries in the Siem Reap province of northern Cambodia in order to continue building a material reference database on Cambodian Khmer sculptures from the southeast Asia collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Carrara, Elena (University of Pisa, Italy; Assistant, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy)
To complete her dissertation entitled "The Ressman Collection at the Museo Nazionale in Florence;" and to conduct research for a complete catalogue on all the works of Ressman's collection in the Bargello and in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation
Casella, Luisa (Andrew W. Mellon Advanded Residency Program in Conservation, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York)
To conduct research for her project on "The anoxic enclosures for long-term preservation of photographic objects, focusing on the effectiveness of these packages in autochrome plates."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Chiostrini, Giulia (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
To study conservation techniques and conduct research on the textiles from the medieval period in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Coulson, Mary Lee (Ph.D., The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, England: 2002; Instructor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
To prepare her dissertation "The Church of Merbaka: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the 13th-Century Peloponnese" for publication.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Cowart, Georgia (Ph.D. in Musicology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey: 1980; Professor of Musicology, Case Western Reserve University)
To continue her research and complete the writing for her book manuscript entitled "Watteau, Music, and the Musical Theater."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Cretu, Ileana (Valahia University of Targoviste, Humanistic Science College and National Museum of Art, Romania)
To conduct research for her project entitled "Restoration of Metallic Threads Embroideries in the United States and Romania."

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Daiman, Marina (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research on her dissertation subject "Copying, Inventing, and Recycling in Rubens."

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Dalgic, Orgu (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To continue the research and complete the writing for her dissertation entitled "Late Antique Floor Mosaics in Constantinople before the Great Palace"

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Das, Asok Kumar (Ph.D., University of London, England)
To conduct research for his monograph on Mughal Natural History drawings and Ustad Mansur for future publication.

Hagop Kevorkian Fellow
Feery, Elizabeth (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Project to be determined.

Chester Dale Fellow
Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth (University of California, Los Angeles)
To complete the research and writing for her dissertation "Crossing Borders, Pushing Boundaries: Senufo Arts and History in a 'Frontier'."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Gordon, Alden (Ph.D., Harvard University: 1978; Chairman, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College; Director, Trinity College Paris, and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Art History, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut)
To prepare his manuscript entitled "Marquis de Marigny, Directeur des Bâtiments du Roi: Art Patron in the Englightenment" for future publication.

Sherman Fairchild Fellow
Grady, Anne (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California)
To conduct research for her project entitled "Technical Analysis and Treatment of the Adams Vase, designed for Tiffany & Co. by Paulding Farnham, 1893."

Hanns Swarzenski and Brigitte Horney Swarzenski Fellow
Guérin, Sarah (University of Toronto, Canada)
To conduct research for her project entitled "French Altarpieces in the Matrix of Sacred Space: An Ivory from the Treasury of Saint-Denis."

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
Hall, Michael (Ph.D., The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, England: 2005; Curator to Edmund de Rothschild, London and Exbury House, Exbury, Hampshire, United Kingdom)
To conduct research and prepare a catalogue on the MMA's collection of gold boxes.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Hatayama, Mami (SOAS—School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England)
To conduct the research and writing her for dissertation on the Japanese lacquer artist Shibata Zeghin (1807–91).

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Kamada, Yumiko (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation topic on Deccani carpets.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Karafel, Lorraine (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To complete the research and writing for "Raphael's Woven Grotesques for the Vatican Palace: Culture, Politics, and Medici Patronage in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Kim, Jung-hee (Ph.D., The Graduate School of Korean Studies, The Academy of Korean Studies, Korea: 1992; Professor, Department of Archaeology and Art History, Wonkwang University, Korea)
To conduct research for her project entitled "The Brahma Image of the Buddhist Painting in the Joseon Dynasty, Korea."

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Kitzinger, Beatrice (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Real Presence and Ritual Presence: The Early Medieval Processional Cross and Its Representations."

Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow
Koopstra, Anna (M.A., University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Research Associate, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany)
For work with an emphasis on research toward an exhibition on Jan Gossaert.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Kuo-Hao, Wu (Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, Republic of China; Director, Taipei Ho Chuang-Shih Calligraphy Foundation and Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Huafan University)
To expand on his dissertation work entitled "The Calligraphic and Painting Society During Late Ming Dynasty and the Lives of Scholars."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Laurenza, Domenico (Ph.D., Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici, San Marino, Italy: 1996; Researcher, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, University of Florence, Italy; Fellow/Visiting Scholar, Italian Academy, Columbia University)
To conduct the research and writing for his book manuscript entitled "Anatomy and Art in the 16th Century: New Evidences and Research Perspectives Based on the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art."

Chester Dale Fellow
Locker, Jesse (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: 2007)
To expand and revise his dissertation entitled "'The Hands of Aurora': Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Contemporaries."

Bothmer Fellow
Lockey, Ian (New York University Graduate Classics Program)
To conduct research for his dissertation entitled "The Atrium House at Aphrodisias."

Annette de la Renta Fellow
Lupu, Ioan Mihai Anton (National Museum of Art, Romania)
To conduct research for his study entitled "Comparison between the Metallic Threads of the European Embroideries and Tapestries of the 15th–18th Centuries"

J. Clawson Mills Fellow
McEwen, Abigail (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Practice and Politics of Cuban Abstraction, ca. 1952–1963."

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Millea, Mary Shay (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
To conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Visualizing the Desired: The Petrarchan Lover Portrait in Renaissance Italy."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Moltesen, Mette (Curator at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark)
To revise, research, and rewrite her book published in 1987, entitled "Wolfgang Helbig, Brygger Jacobsen's Agent in Rome, 1887–1914."

Annette de la Renta Fellow
Moomaw, Kate (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To study conservation approaches to modern and contemporary objects with a particular focus on problems presented by plastic objects.

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Fellow
Periti, Giancarla (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland)
To conduct the research and writing for her book manuscript entitled "In the Courts of Cloistered Ladies: Subjectivity and Gender in Conventual Art (1450–1550)."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Pisani, Linda (Ph.D., Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy)
To conduct research for her project entitled "Painting at the Threshold of the Renaissance, 1360–1420."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Rodrigues, Isa (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
To study the theory and practice of textile conservation with a special interest in pre-Columbian materials.

Chester Dale Fellow
Rudy, Elizabeth (Ph.D., Harvard University: 2007; Curatorial Intern, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
To conduct research for her project entitled "Painters, Printmakers, and Publishers: The Importance of Book Illustration during the Napoleonic Empire."

Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow
Schultz, Julia (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Hildesheim, Germany)
To continue research for her project entitled "Establishing an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) System for Identification of Proteinaceous Binding Media in Art."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Song, Unsok (Ph.D., Seoul National University, South Korea: 2007; Curator of Korean Art, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Korea)
To revise his dissertation entitled "A Study of the Monk Sculptor Schools and Buddhist Sculptures in Seventeenth-Century Korea" for future publication.

Theodore Rousseau Fellow
Strauber, Alison (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
To conduct research for her dissertation on the artist Henri de Braekeleer (1840–88) and Belgian paintings of domestic interiors between 1870 and 1895.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Wang, Shen (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
To complete the research and writing for her dissertation topic on Wang Yuangi (1642–1715).

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow
Woodfin, Warren (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 2002; Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania)
To complete the research and writing for his book manuscript entitled "A Thirteenth-Century Princely Burial near Zamozhne, Ukraine: The Shared Culture of Court Objects Between the Mediterranean and Eurasian Worlds."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Zivkovic, Maja (National Museum, Belgrade, Serbia)
To study the conservation of ceramics and glass objects at the Metropolitan Museum and to share knowledge gained with her colleagues in Serbia.

View a list of 2004–2005, 2005–2006, 2006–2007, and 2007–2008 recipients.