(New York, June 29, 2023)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, a leading research organization dedicated exclusively to the study of modernism, announced its 2023–2024 Fellowships.
Since its founding in April 2023, the Research Center has awarded fellowships to 22 scholars. The 2023-2024 fellowships are:
- Zeynep Gürsel (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University) has been selected for the inaugural one-year mid-career fellowship to begin research on her next project “Photography and Citizenship: Coming into Visibility for the State and Surveillance of Mobile Subjects,” on Alphonse Bertillon’s criminal identification system, with a special focus on The Met’s collection of Bertillon photographs.
- Kamila Kociałkowska (PhD, University of Cambridge) has been selected for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to work on her book project, “Spying is Seeing: the Cryptographic Imagination in Postwar Painting 1943-1969,” the first visual history of midcentury ciphering, bringing together scholarship in art history, mathematics, and popular science to re-evaluate the aesthetics of postwar painting.
- Rodrigo Salido Moulinié (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin) has been selected for a two-year predoctoral fellowship to work on his dissertation, "Covarrubias' Crossings: Art, Science, and the Global Politics of Ethnographic Image-Making," charting this Latin American modernist’s travels between Mexico, New York, Bali and China, and exploring his networks and the politics of ethnographic imagery.
Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director commented, “The Lauder Research Center for Modern Art continually produces revelatory scholarship on under-researched areas in order to expand our understanding of modernism. The fellows are an integral part of that work, and we are delighted to welcome this remarkable group of individuals to the Research Center, marking our ninth cycle of fellowships.”
Neil Cox, the Head of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center, commented, “I look forward with excitement to working with this fascinating group of researchers, including our first ever mid-career fellow. Truly interdisciplinary in spirit, their projects variously engaging with photography, cryptography and ethnography, will contribute to our wide-ranging exploration of the challenges and excitement of modern art.”
About the Research Center
Founded in April 2013, The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art is a leading center for scholarship on modern art, with a special focus on Cubism. The first such institution dedicated exclusively to the study of modernism within an encyclopedic museum, the Research Center makes critical contributions to scholarship through its robust program of exhibitions, lectures, publications, research projects, and workshops. The scope of the Research Center’s activities can be found at:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/libraries-and-research-centers/leonard-lauder-research-center
Each year, the Research Center awards Leonard A. Lauder Fellowships for pre- and post-doctoral candidates. Recent awards have supported the work of scholars focused on Art Brut, Czech modernism, Dada, Brazilian modern art, interwar European Abstraction, Russian Constructivism, and Surrealism, in addition to the agents, dealers, and reception of Cubism. The institution also supports the invited residencies of senior scholars of modern art, who pursue their own studies while participating in the activities of the Research Center.
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June 29, 2023
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