Fellows
2024–2025 Fellows
Bita Mesbah got her PhD in Art History from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. She is currently Assistant Professor at the department of Arts, Semnan University, Iran. Bita was awarded a fellowship to conduct an iconographical study of Iranian rhyta, concerning mythological influences to discover the interrelations of form, function, and concept.
Artemis Papatheodorou is a cultural historian with a DPhil in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. She was awarded a Chester Dale Interdisciplinary Fellowship to revisit the archaeological photographic record through the lens of ordinary people, in particular that of Ottoman Greeks from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Talah Anderson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford. She was awarded The Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellowship to work on the “Assyrian Sculpture Court Pigment Project,” sponsored by the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, in collaboration with Objects Conservation and Scientific Research.
Johnathan Hardy is a PhD candidate, Art History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to perform an iconographic and statistical analysis of Sasanian seals and sealings (224–632 CE) to provide fresh insights into The Met collection.
Erhan Tamur obtained his PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University. He was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship to assist with reimagining the stories and renovating the galleries that present The Met collection of ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot art to the public.
After receiving an MA in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, Dajani is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Library and Information Science at San José State University. Prior to becoming a fellow, she worked at the Morgan Library & Museum where she cataloged impressions of ancient seals and updated the online catalog’s terminology in accordance with DEAI efforts.
Hand is a PhD Candidate in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University focusing on ancient Mesopotamian art. Her dissertation considers the role of alterity in the reliefs and architecture of the royal palace at Khorsabad, built by the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II (721-705 BCE). She received her BA in Archaeology from the College of Wooster.
A PhD candidate at the Department of Art History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Maghsoudlou specializes in the art of the late antique Iranian world and Western Asia, particularly during the Sasanian and early Islamic periods. He studies the Sasanian and post-Sasanian silver vessels, with an emphasis on the objects' materiality, and the ways in which they were manufactured, circulated, and experienced in the late antique world.