NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host a group of 51 fellows, which consists of graduate students and scholars from the United States and around the world. The fellows will undertake study and research projects, either at the Museum or abroad, for periods ranging from three months to one year, most of them beginning in September 2009.

Among the 2009-2010 fellowship recipients are scholars affiliated with such American insitutions as Columbia University, Harvard University, the University of California Los Angeles, and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Recipients from foreign museums, conservation centers, and universities include scholars from Cambridge University; the University of London; the Limburg Conservation Institute of Maastricht, The Netherlands; and the Seoul National University of South Korea.

Areas of study and research include: iconoclasm in African art; Deccani carpets; Medieval Jewish aesthetic production; microscopic plate-wear in impressions of Albrecht Dürer prints; and conservation issues of early sixteenth-century choir tapestry fragments.

Fellowship Program

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship Program is one of the largest and most distinguished of its kind. The program is dedicated to supporting the continued scholarly investigation and research into the Museum's encyclopedic collections and furthering the fields of art history, art conservation, and scientific research. First established in 1951, the program was formalized in 1974 with the formation of the Grants Committee, which oversees the selection process of fellows and is involved in all major decisions related to fellowships.

Fellows come from around the world and range in their levels of expertise from those just beginning doctoral research work or conservation training to those who are already established senior scholars, museum curators, conservators, or scientific researchers with extensive publication records. Fellowship terms may be as short as three months (for senior scholars) and as long as one year, depending on the needs of the fellow and the specific project.

Fellows are fully incorporated into the everyday life of the Museum, with its exceptional collections and library resources. The Museum's knowledgable curatorial, conservation, and scientific research staff host the fellows in their respective departments, supervise their research, and collaborate with them throughout their terms. All fellows are expected to spend their fellowships in residence at the Museum, with the exception of Theodore Rousseau fellows—usually predoctoral scholars—who spend the duration of their fellowship terms abroad.

To supplement their independent research and provide insight into the enormous scope of the Museum's day-to-day operations, a series of events is coordinated throughout the year to facilitate fellows' interaction with Museum staff working outside of their area of specialization. These include weekly coffees/teas in the fall with Museum staff, a welcome meeting hosted by the Director for all incoming fellows, and behind-the-scenes tours through Museum exhibitions and the Museum conservation and scientific research facilities.

Every spring, colloquia allow fellows to present their work-in-progress. These colloquia bring together renowned scholars from the tristate area as well as Museum colleagues and fellowship donors.

ART HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS

American Art

Melody Barnett Deusner
Ms. Deusner is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Delaware, Newark. She was awarded a Douglass Foundation Fellowship to research and write her dissertation entitled "A Network of Associations: Aesthetic Painting and its Patrons, 1870-1914."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Catherine Holochwost
Fellowship postponed from 2008-2009
Ms. Holochwost is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Delaware, Newark. She was awarded a Douglass Foundation Fellowship to conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Landscape as Machine: Vision and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Painting."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Kevin Dean Murphy
Dr. Murphy received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1992. He is currently John Rewald Professor of Art History and Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Art History at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship to conduct research for his book tentatively entitled "Lafayette: Memorializing the Republic in France and America."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Jennifer Babcock
Ms. Babcock is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was awarded a Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellowship to conduct research on Near Eastern influence on the figured ostraca from the New Kingdom workmen's village, Deir el-Medineh.
November 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Arms and Armor

Francesco Civita
Dr. Civita received his degree in Foreign Languages and Literature/Japanese and Oriental Studies, University of Florence, Italy: 1989. He is currently Curator of the Japanese section of The Stibbert Museum, Florence Italy. He was awarded a Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to study the collection of Japanese Arms and Armor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and to study the orginazation and display methods for the exhibition "The Art of the Samurai"
1-1/2 months, dates to be announced

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Zoë Sara Strother
Dr. Strother received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1992. She is currently Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University, New York. She was awarded a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellowship to conduct the research and writing of her project on iconoclasm in African art. September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Asian Art

Ambra Calò
Dr. Calò received her Ph.D. in the Archaeology of Southeast Asia from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 2007. She is currently a freelance consultant in Bali, Indonesia. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to conduct research on the early Southeast Asian bronzes donated to the Museum by Professor Samuel Eilenberg.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Maria Menshikova
Dr. Menshikova received her degree from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia in 1981. She is currently Senior Research Fellow and Curator of Chinese Decorative Arts and Jewelry in the Oriental Department of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to study the Museum's collection of Chinese decorative art and textiles.
Three months, dates to be announced

Sergey Minyaev
Dr. Minyaev received his Ph.D. from The Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Science in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1982. He is currently Senior Researcher and Head of the Trans-Baikal Archaeological Expedition at The Institute of Material Cultural in Saint Petersburg. He was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to research and complete his manuscript entitled "The Royal Cemetery of Tsaraam."
December 1, 2009-March 31, 2010

Youngchan Oh
Dr. Oh received his Ph.D. in Korean History from Seoul National University in 2005. He is currently a curator at the Gyeongju National Museum of Korea.
He was awarded a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellowship to research and write an article on the influence of the art of the nomadic peoples of northern China on Korean ancient art.
Three months, dates to be announced

Akira Shimada
Dr. Shimada received his Ph.D. from the University of London in 2006. He is currently Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to conduct research on Andhran Buddhist sculpture (ca. 200 B.C.E. -300 C.E.) and to build a database of principle Buddhist sites in areas of the Andhran region.
May 26, 2010-August 26, 2010

Drawings and Prints

Renzo Baldasso
Dr. Baldasso received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York in 2007. He is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at The Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. He was awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship to complete his manuscript on fifteenth-century printed books.
September 1, 2009-December 31, 2009

Sylvain Cordier
Mr. Cordier is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne, France. He was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to study, analyze, and catalogue an album of sketches from the workshop of Pierre-Antoine and Louis-Alexandre Bellangé (ca. 1800-1835), presently held in the collection of the Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints.
October 1, 2009-December 31, 2009

Elizabeth Rudy
Dr. Rudy received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2007. She is currently a 2008-2009 Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded a two-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship to conduct research on original etchings by eighteenth-century French artists, which is expected to result in the preparation of an international loan exhibition, Etching as Sketch: Peintres-graveurs in Eighteenth-century France.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2011

Egyptian Art

Tarek el-Awady
Dr. el-Awady received his Ph.D. from Charles University, Prague in 2006. He is currently Head of the Research Department of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and General Supervisor of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo He was awarded a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellowship to collaborate with Museum curators in the Department of Egyptian Art on documenting, studying, and publishing fragmentary materials gathered at the excavation of the causeway of Sahure at Abusir.
May 1, 2010-July 31, 2010

Ann Macy Roth
Dr. Roth received her Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 1985. She currently holds a joint appointment as Clinical Associate Professor specializing in Egyptology in the Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and the Department of Art History at New York University. She is also Director of Graduate Study in the Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies Program at New York University. She was awarded a J. Clawson Mills Fellowship to study three Egyptian Mastaba chapels in the Museum's collection.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

European Paintings

Andaleeb Banta
Dr. Banta received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2007. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. She was awarded a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellowship to prepare for publication her dissertation on the seventeenth-century painter Bernardo Strozzi.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Marisa Anne Bass
Fellowship postponed from 2008-2009
Ms. Bass is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was awarded a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship to conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Venus of Zeeland: Jan Gossaert and the Revival of Netherlandish Antiquity."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Esther Susan Bell
Fellowship renewal
Ms. Bell is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is currently a 2008-2009 Theodore Rousseau Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded a renewal of her Theodore Rousseau Fellowship to continue research for her dissertation entitled "Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752): Painting and Performance in Eighteenth-Century France."
September 1, 2009-February 28, 2010

Rachel Johnson
Ms. Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was awarded a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship to examine the works of Pieter Bruegel, his predecessors, and his contemporaries held in European collections for her dissertation entitled "Suburban Bruegel: The Chorographical and Rhetorical Function of Landscape in Pieter Bruegel's Antwerp."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Anna Koopstra
Research Scholarship renewal
Ms. Koopstra received her M.A. from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 2004. She is currently the 2008-2009 Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded a renewal of her Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship to continue work and research toward a future exhibition on Jan Gossaert.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Judith Noorman
Ms. Noorman is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was awarded a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship to conduct research for her dissertation on the oeuvre of Jacob van Loo.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Jennifer Sliwka
Ms. Sliwka is a Ph.D. candidate at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. She was awarded a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship to conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Domenico Beccafumi and the Politics of Devotion in Sixteenth-Century Siena."
September 1, 2009-February 28, 2010

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Dr. Brandt received her Ph.D. from Harvard University 1965. She is currently a permanent consultant for Renaissance Art at the Vatican Museums and Professor at the College of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to conduct research for her project entitled "Studies in the Semiosis of Gesture, Pose, and Composition in European Art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance."
Three months, dates to be announced.

Greek and Roman Art

Keely Heuer
Ms. Heuer is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
She was awarded a Bothmer Fellowship to study the decorative motif of painted human heads on South Italian vases, from 440 to 300 B.C.E.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
Fellowship postponed from 2008-2009
Dr. Nichols received her Ph.D. from University of Cambridge, Trinity College, United Kingdom in July 2009. She was awarded a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellowship to prepare her dissertation entitled "The Rhetoric of Display in Vitruvius's De Architectura" for publication.
September 1, 2009-February 28, 2010

Islamic Art

Yasmine Al-Saleh
Ms. Al-Saleh is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was awarded a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellowship to complete her dissertation entitled "Licit Magic the Touch and Sight of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls," and to assemble a digital exhibition of Islamic talismanic scrolls.
September 1, 2009-December 31, 2009

Abdullah Ghouchani
Fellowship renewal
Dr. Ghouchani received his M.S. in Islamic History from the Humanism Sciences and Cultural Studies Research Center in Tehran in 1996. He is currently a 2008-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was awarded a renewal of his Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to continue his research on coins and other inscribed material excavated at Nishabur in the Museum's collection, for future publication.
September 1, 2009-February 28, 2010

Yumiko Kamada
Fellowship renewal
Ms. Kamada is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is currently a 2008-2009 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded a renewal of her Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to continue research for her dissertation on Deccani carpets.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Keelan Overton
Ms. Overton is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was awarded a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship to conduct research for her dissertation tentatively entitled "Unraveling the Enigma: Single-Page Painting of Adil Shahi Bijapur, ca. 1580-1630."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Heather Badamo
Fellowship postponed from 2008-2009
Ms. Badamo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship to complete the research and writing of her dissertation entitled "Among Byzantines and Muslims: Coptic Representations of Military Saints, ca. 850-1300 C.E."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Meredith Fluke
Ms. Fluke is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, New York. She was awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship to complete her dissertation entitled "Building Across the Sacred Landscape: The Romanesque Churches of Verona in their Urban Context."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Sofia Georgiadou
Ms. Georgiadou is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to write and revise the sections of her dissertation that deal with the architecture of the Despotate of Epirus and the Empire of Trebizond.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Abby Kornfeld
Ms. Kornfeld is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship to research and write her dissertation entitled "Out of the Margins: Toward a Reassessment of Medieval Jewish Aesthetic Production."
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Alexandra Suda
Ms. Suda is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to conduct research for her dissertation entitled "The Girona Martyrology and the Cult of Saints in Late-Medieval Bohemia."
September 1, 2009-February 28, 2010

Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art

Nicole Myers
Ms. Myers is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was awarded a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship to conduct research for her dissertation, "Courbet's Nudes: Realism and the Rococo Revival."
September 1, 2009-June 30, 2010

Derek Weiler
Mr. Weiler is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He was awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship to conduct the research and writing for his dissertation on the paintings of Mel Bochner.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Photographs

Russell Lord
Mr. Lord is a Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to research examples of "hybrid photography" in the Museum's collection.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

CONSERVATION FELLOWSHIPS

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Isa Santos Rodrigues
Fellowship renewal
Ms. Rodrigues received her Masters in Conservation from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal in 2008. She is currently a 2008-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded a Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellowship to continue her study of ethnographic textiles in collaboration with the Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
September 1, 2009-February 28, 2010

Objects Conservation

Anne Grady
Fellowship renewal
Ms. Grady received her M.A. and Certificate of Advanced Study in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College, New York in 2007. She is currently a 2008-2009 Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded a renewal of her Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellowship to study the Adams Vase and the Magnolia Vase so as to better understand Tiffany & Co. production at the end of the nineteenth century and its reflection of larger trends within American Decorative Arts.
September 1, 2009-November 30, 2009

Ariel O'Connor
Ms. O'Connor received her M.A. and Certificate of Advanced Study in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College, New York in June of 2009.
She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellowship to conduct a technical analysis of pre-tenth-century bronzes from Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma, and Thailand.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Anna Serotta
Ms. Serotta received her M.A. in Art History and Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in June 2009. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellowship to examine a group of objects from the Egyptian collection housed in the so-called "fake room" for provenance.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Paintings Conservation

Mary Kathleen Patton
Ms. Patton is a graduate student at the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellowship to make use of the Museum's examination equipment to study Medieval and Old Master paintings.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Luuk Hoogstede
Mr. Hoogstede received a five-year postgraduate degree in conservation from the Limburg Conservation Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands in July 2009. He was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellowship to investigate restoration techniques for the structural conservation of panel paintings.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Paper Conservation

Angela Campbell
Ms. Campbell is a graduate student in conservation at Buffalo State College, New York. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellowship to conduct further research for her project entitled "A Comparative Study of Microscopic Plate Wear in Sixteen Impressions of Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I (1514)" and create a chronology for two Dürer prints in the Museum's collection, Saint Jerome in His Study and Knight, Death, and the Devil.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Marina Ruiz Molina
Ms. Ruiz Molina received her M.A. from the Official School of Conservation in Madrid, Spain in 2000. She is currently a researcher for the Esteban Vicente Foundation. She was awarded an Annette de la Renta Fellowship to continue scientific study and treatment of Abstract Expressionist collages in the Museum's collection.
January 1, 2010-March 31, 2010

Photograph Conservation

Luisa Casella
Research Scholarship renewal
Ms. Casella received her postgraduate degree in Art Expertise at the Fundaçao Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva, in Lisbon, Portugal in 2002 and graduate degree in Conservation and Restoration from the Tomar Polytechnic Institute in Tomar, Portugal in 1996. She is currently a 2007-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded a third-year renewal of her Research Scholarship in Photograph Conservation to study practical anoxic packaging systems and to perform anoxic dark stability tests on autochrome dyes.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Textile Conservation

Giulia Chiostrini
Fellowship renewal
Ms. Chiostrini received her degree certificate in the restoration and conservation of ancient textiles from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy in 2001. She is currently a 2008-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded an Annette de la Renta Fellowship to continue her research on five early sixteenth-century choir tapestry fragments, The Hunt of the Frail Stag.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Volodymyr Nazar
Mr. Nazar received a M.A. in Art History from the Ukrainian Academy of Arts in Kiev, Ukraine in 1995 and continued with postgraduate studies at the same university until 1998. He is currently Textile Conservator at the National Kiev-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve in Kiev, Ukraine. He was awarded a Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellowship to research current methods and techniques pertaining to ecclesiastical textile conservation as well as the embroidery techniques and stylistic properties in fifteenth-through-eighteenth-century church textiles in the Robert Lehman Collection.
September 1, 2009-February 28, 2010

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Federico Caró
Fellowship renewal
Dr. Caró received his Ph.D. from the University of Pavia, Italy in 2004. He is currently a 2008-2009 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was awarded a renewal of his Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to complete a database of Khmer stone materials and to publish the completed results of his three years of study at the Museum.
September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010

Yae Takahashi
Dr. Takahashi received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York in 2007. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Freer and Sackler Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. She was awarded a Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellowship to investigate the occurrence and use of non-traditional synthetic colorants in later East Asian paintings and wood-block prints in the Museum's collection.
September 1, 2009-May 31, 2010