Meet the Fellows
The Department of European Paintings encourages the development of young scholars and aspiring curators in many ways, including support for research projects and opportunities to work with the staff.
Meet the 2022 – 2023 Fellows
Marina Kliger holds an MA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in September 2020. Her dissertation, "Une Histoire Particulière: The Troubadour Style and Gendered Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century France," examines the gender politics of history painting after the French Revolution vis-a-vis women collectors' historical self-fashioning across media. She has previously held positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. As the inaugural Thaw Fellow at The Met, she is researching the provenance, exhibition, and publication histories of the museum's nineteenth-century European paintings.
Natalie Prizel holds a Ph.D. in English from Yale University and has served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows and as visiting assistant professor at Bard College. Her first book, "Innocent Eyes: Victorian Ethical Optics and Aberrant Bodies," is under review, and she is at work on two projects, one called "Pre-Raphaelite in Black" and the other, "Dark Waters: Oceanic Aesthetics, Black Bodies, and the British Empire." Prizel’s work has been published in Victorian Poetry, GLQ, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies, and Literature Compass, among other venues. She has participated in exhibitions at the Yale Center for British Art and Princeton University Art Museum, as well as the Met's "Crip the Met" initiative.