2021–2022 Fellows

Fellowships in History of Art and Visual Culture The American Wing

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Bianca Hand PhD candidate, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University Henry S. Blackwood Fellowship Bianca Hand was awarded a fellowship to explore the subversive role of alterity through an analysis of the reliefs and architecture of Sargon II’s (721–705 B.C.) royal palace at Khorsabad.

Katie Loney PhD candidate, History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art Katie Loney was awarded a fellowship to reexamine the work of Lockwood de Forest and the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company in relation to the global circulation of luxury goods.

Arvin Maghsoudlou PhD candidate, Art History, Southern Methodist University Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Arvin Maghsoudlou was awarded a fellowship to re-examine silver vessels of the Sasanian and post-Sasanian period in The Met collection, so as to offer a novel understanding of the art of the Iranian world during late antiquity.

2021–2022 Fellows Asian Art

Julie Bellemare PhD, Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Julie Bellemare was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to conduct the first comprehensive study of agate carvings in Qing China, examining patterns of production and appreciation and the functions of these objects in imperial contexts.

Joy Xiao Chen PhD candidate, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles The Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship Joy Xiao Chen was awarded a fellowship to investigate the heterogeneity of 17th-century Chinese landscape art and explore the dynamics of localisms and regionalisms in Ming–Qing Chinese art and aesthetics.

Xiaohan Du PhD, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Xiaohan Du was awarded a fellowship to research Sino-Japanese Chan/Zen Buddhist calligraphy and painting and their relationship to the Chinese monk Yishan Yining (1247–1317).

2021–2022 Fellows The Costume Institute

Director’s Office

Sequoia Barnes PhD, Design, University of Edinburgh The Gerald and Mary Ellen Ritter Memorial Fund Fellowship Sequoia Barnes was awarded a fellowship to expand her doctoral research on late fashion designer Patrick Kelly into a book.

Jonathan Square PhD, History, New York University Lecturer, Harvard University The Gerald and Mary Ellen Ritter Memorial Fund Fellowship Jonathan Square was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to expand and enrich the arguments in his book project, "Negro Cloth: How Slavery Built the Global Fashion Industry."

Wendy Grossman PhD, Art History and Archaeology, The University of Maryland Curatorial Associate, The Phillips Collection Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Wendy Grossman was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to advance publication research on the Guadeloupean model and dancer Adrienne Fidelin, an unsung “muse” to an elite avant-garde circle in interwar Paris and the first black model to feature in a major American fashion magazine. She will situate this long-overlooked figure within critical discourses on race, gender, representation, and global modernisms.

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Drawings and Prints

Caryl Loney-McFarlane PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers University Independent Higher Education Diversity Programs Consultant Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Caryl Loney-McFarlane was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to explore how specific works by Black artists from the 19th and 20th centuries intersect with five of Toni Morrison’s protagonists as well as present counternarratives to American racism.

Angel Jiang PhD candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Angel Jiang was awarded a fellowship to study Spanish plateresque architecture and its relationship with ornamental media.

Julia Lillie PhD candidate, Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Julia Lillie was awarded a fellowship to investigate a network of Protestant engravers from the Netherlands who fled persecution and migrated to Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century.

2021–2022 Fellows European Paintings

Marina Kliger PhD, History of Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Eugene V. Thaw Fellowship for Collections Cataloguing Marina Kliger was awarded a fellowship to receive training in the practice of cataloguing works of art, including the research and compilation of provenance, exhibition history, and bibliographic references, as well as the documentation of critical literature.

Sumihiro Oki PhD candidate, History of Art, University of Amsterdam Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellowship Sumihiro Oki was awarded a fellowship to conduct interdisciplinary research with the curator emerita for The Met collection of early Netherlandish paintings.

Natalie Prizel PhD, English, Yale University Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Natalie Prizel was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to consider the aesthetic strategies of proximity, horizontality, and abstraction used to depict Black bodies in the British 19th century and beyond.

2021–2022 Fellows European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Greek and Roman Art

Keely Heuer PhD, Art History and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Associate Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Keely Heuer was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to conduct work on a manuscript synthesizing and contextualizing Italian red-figure pottery (5th–3rd century B.C.).

Marlise Brown PhD candidate, Art History, Temple University Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Marlise Brown was awarded a fellowship to study 18th-century chinoiserie decorative arts, their patronage, and their history of display within architectural interior spaces.

Courtney Wilder PhD, History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Courtney Wilder was awarded a fellowship to analyze common exuberant patterns in early 19th-century European printed textiles as key cross-media visual distillations of broader cultural phenomena.

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Islamic Art

Seher Agarwala PhD candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Theodore Rousseau Fellowship Seher Agarwala was awarded a fellowship to study the ethical and transformative possibilities of Perso-Islamic illustrated manuscripts in 16th-century Deccan India.

Marlee Miller PhD candidate, History of Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Marica and Jan Vilcek Fellowship in Art History Marlee Miller was awarded a fellowship to examine the artistic representation of Roman gladiatorial instruction and its relationship to the architecture of the gladiatorial training school, emphasizing function and social hierarchy.

Olivia Clemens PhD candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Olivia Clemens was awarded a fellowship to reveal the interplay between medievalism, Aestheticism, and Islamic art collecting in the late 19th- to early 20th-century United States.

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Live Arts

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Jacqueline M. Lombard PhD candidate, History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Jacqueline M. Lombard was awarded a fellowship to examine the key role that the visual arts played in shaping medieval European ideas about race and Blackness in the 10th–12th centuries.

Nader Sayadi PhD, History of Art History, University of Texas at Austin Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Nader Sayadi was awarded a fellowship to pursue research on his manuscript, “Kashmir to Kerman: Garments of Power, Wool-weaving Crafts, and Socioeconomic Landscapes of Iran and the Kashmir Valley, 1797–1896."

Megan Metcalf PhD, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles The Diana A. and Harry A. Stern Fellowship Megan Metcalf was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to trace the history of live arts at The Met, both past and current, through archival materials and interviews.

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The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Zachary Stewart PhD, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Architecture, Texas A&M University J. Clawson Mills Scholarship Zachary Stewart was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the English parish church as an experimental vehicle for collaborative material production during the Late Middle Ages.

Alexis Wang PhD candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Alexis Wang was awarded a fellowship to examine the framing, materiality, and devotional contexts of embedded objects in Italian medieval mural decoration.

Elizabeth Cory-Pearce PhD, Anthropology, University of London Honorary Senior Research Associate in Anthropology, University College London Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Elizabeth Cory-Pearce was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to foster a cross-cultural reconceptualization of the category “portraiture,” posited as “forms that evoke presence,” using examples drawn from Oceanic and European art.

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Modern and Contemporary Art

Lara Fresko Madra PhD candidate, History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Lara Fresko Madra was awarded a fellowship to investigate contemporary art practices that engage violent pasts as a challenge to official history.

Louise Deglin PhD candidate, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles The Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship Louise Deglin was awarded a fellowship to analyze how artists shaped Wari artistic production in the first Andean empire (7th–11th century).

Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza PhD candidate, Art History, University of Wisconsin–Madison The Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza was awarded a fellowship to study the mythical and historical imagery of the feminine in Yoruba and Edo artworks, and to explore new aesthetic languages for the reevaluation of Black lives and transnational feminism.

2021–2022 Fellows Modern and Contemporary Art—Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art

Alexandra Chiriac PhD, Art History, University of St. Andrews Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship in Modern Art Alexandra Chiriac was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the visual and material culture of urban modernity in Bucharest in the 1920s and 1930s, examining connections to developments in France and America.

Jason Mientkiewicz PhD candidate, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship in Modern Art Jason Mientkiewicz was awarded a fellowship to examine the influence of Cubism on the art and pedagogical activities of the Russian avant-garde artist collective Affirmers of the New Art (UNOVIS).

Adrienn Kácsor PhD candidate, Art History, Northwestern University Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship in Modern Art Adrienn Kácsor was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to rethink the relationship between avant-garde and Socialist Realist aesthetics during the interwar years by studying the diverse aesthetics of Hungarian migrant Communists who lived in exile in Europe and the Soviet Union.

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Musical Instruments

Hilary Brady Morris PhD candidate, Musicology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign J. Clawson Mills Scholarship Hilary Brady Morris was awarded a fellowship to analyze construction features of Arabic and Asian lutes at The Met in order to investigate the migration, transmission, and adoption of woodworking technologies along the Silk Road as a form of cultural exchange.

Althea Wair SullyCole PhD candidate, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University The Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship Althea Wair SullyCole was awarded a fellowship to expand her research on the interconnection between African and African diasporic communities as expressed through musical instruments.

Hyewon Yoon PhD, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Lecturer, University of New Hampshire Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship in Modern Art Hyewon Yoon was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to examine the afterlife of the European avant-garde in postwar America through the work of Alexey Brodovitch.

2021–2022 Fellows Photographs

The Robert Lehman Collection

Alisa V. Prince PhD candidate, Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester Chester Dale Fellowship Alisa V. Prince was awarded a fellowship to examine vernacular photographs of Black people and trace the systems of value to which they are subject in different spaces.

Delphine Sims PhD candidate, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Delphine Sims was awarded a fellowship to analyze the photographic self-portraits of four Black artists seeking to resurrect critical aspects of Blackness through physical topographies and landscape photography.

Andrea Kibler Maxwell PhD candidate, History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Andrea Kibler Maxwell was awarded a fellowship to conduct research for her dissertation, "Painting and Persecution: Anti-Jewish and Anti-Protestant Visual Rhetoric in Northern Italy, 1475–1555.”

2021–2022 Fellows

Interdisciplinary Fellowships Ancient Near Eastern Art

Modern and Contemporary Art

Photographs

Majdolene Dajani MA, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Chester Dale Fellowship Majdolene Dajani was awarded a fellowship to investigate the longevity of patterns in Levantine decorative arts as evidenced among modern Palestinian communities.

Michael Reyes Salas PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Vassar College Chester Dale Fellowship Michael Reyes Salas was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to work on a book manuscript that investigates the role of photography and spectatorship practices in prison museums and penal heritage sites of Europe and the Americas from the 19th century onward.

Desiree Dibasen Nanuses PhD candidate, Fine Art Curatorial Practice, University of Pretoria Acting Chief Curator and Collections Curator, National Art Gallery of Namibia Chester Dale Fellowship Desiree Dibasen Nanuses was awarded a fellowship to discuss strategies to decolonize canonical literature and art by placing postcolonial scholarship in dialogue with contemporary theory.

2021–2022 Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Curatorial Practice Egyptian Art

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Scott Miller PhD, Art History, Northwestern University Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research/Collections Specialist Fellowship Scott Miller was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to evaluate and catalogue the Museum's extensive holdings of ivory carvings, including researching issues of art history, authentication, dating, provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography.

Amy Butner PhD, Ancient Egyptian Art History, Emory University Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship Amy Butner was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to analyze the visual and material culture of ancient Egypt and contribute to a major upcoming Met exhibition tentatively titled "The Gods of Ancient Egypt."

Nicole Danielle Pulichene PhD, History of Art, Harvard University Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research/Collections Specialist Fellowship Nicole Pulichene was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to evaluate and catalogue the Museum's extensive holdings of ivory carvings, including researching issues of art history, authentication, dating, provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography.

2021–2022 Fellows The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Hugo C. Ikehara Tsukayama PhD, Anthropological Archaeology, University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research/Collections Specialist Fellowship Hugo C. Ikehara Tsukayama was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to assist with the comprehensive reinstallation of The Met’s approximately 4,000 works of art from the Andean region of South America.

Elaine Sullivan PhD, Culture and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship Elaine Sullivan was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to assist with a comprehensive reassessment of The Met collection of African arts spanning from 500 B.C. to the present.

2021–2022 Fellows

Conservation Fellowships and Scientific Research Fellowships The Costume Institute—Conservation

The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing—Conservation

Objects Conservation

Kaelyn Garcia MA, Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice (Conservation), The Fashion Institute of Technology Polaire Weissman Fund Fellowship Kaelyn Garcia was awarded a fellowship to gain further experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on plastics.

Janine Meier MA, Conservation and Restoration, Haute École Arc Conservator-Restorer, Bernisches Historisches Museum Annette de la Renta Fellowship Janine Meier was awarded a fellowship to gain experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on metal objects.

Kristal Hale MA, Conservation and Restoration, Bern University of Applied Sciences and the Abegg-Stiftung Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Fellowship Kristal Hale was awarded a fellowship to gain experience in the study and treatment of textiles from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the context of a museum conservation department.

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Margot Murray Master of Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne Sherman Fairchild Foundation Conservation Fellowship Margot Murray was awarded a fellowship to gain experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on conserving ceramics and glass objects.

Ahmed Tarek PhD, Conservation, Cairo University Head of Human Remains Laboratory & Conservation Specialist, Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Fellowship Ahmed Tarek was awarded a fellowship to gain experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on Egyptian objects.

Alexandra Wysopal MS, Historic Preservation, University of Texas at Austin Sherman Fairchild Foundation Conservation Fellowship Alexandra Wysopal was awarded a fellowship to gain experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on stained glass.

2021–2022 Fellows Paintings Conservation

Photograph Conservation

Sara Kornhauser MA, Paintings Conservation, Buffalo State College, State University of New York Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Fellowship Sara Kornhauser was awarded a fellowship to gain further experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on modern and contemporary paintings.

Catherine E. Stephens MS/MA, Conservation and Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Annette de la Renta Fellowship Catherine E. Stephens was awarded a fellowship to gain further experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on photographically illustrated books and photograph albums.

Rachel Tabet MA, Preventive Conservation, Northumbria University Annette De la Renta Fellowship Rachel Tabet was awarded a fellowship to gain experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on photographs.

2021–2022 Fellows Scientific Research

Textile Conservation

Omid Oudbashi PhD, Conservation of Cultural and Historical Properties, University of Isfahan Associate Professor, University of Isfahan Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Fellowship Omid Oudbashi was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to analyze Islamic metallurgical artifacts from Iran (7th–15th century) using noninvasive and microanalytical methods.

Aleksandra Popowich PhD, Chemistry, University of Alberta Annette de la Renta Fellowship Aleksandra Popowich was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to develop a method for characterizing proteins and oils from emulsion-tanned leather in cultural heritage objects using mass spectrometry.

Viviane Wei-An Chen MPhil, Textile Conservation, University of Glasgow Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Fellowship Viviane Wei-An Chen was awarded a fellowship to gain experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on East Asian costume and textile collections.

2021–2022 Fellows

External Awards Hosted by The Met Asian Art

Egyptian Art

Paintings Conservation

Hye Youn Choi Master’s, Art Theory in Art Management Interdisciplinary Program, Seoul National University Korea Foundation Internship Hye Youn Choi was awarded a scholarship to gain curatorial experience and develop related skills in the Department of Asian Art.

Sophie Kroft PhD candidate, Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Marica and Jan Vilcek Curatorial Fellowship Sophie Kroft was awarded a fellowship to receive curatorial training and contribute to projects in the Department of Egyptian Art.

Kristin Holder MS/MA, Conservation and Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University The Met–Getty Painting Panel Initiative Scholarship Kristin Holder was awarded a fellowship to gain additional experience in a museum conservation department, with a focus on panel painting.