Adriana Zavala
Tufts University
Networks (2023)
Andrew W. Mellon Professors
This two-year position was established in 1994 with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Mellon Professor is chosen to serve two consecutive academic years and is free to pursue independent research.
2022–2024
2020–2022
Huey Copeland
University of Pennsylvania
Black Being and Modernist Iconicity (2022)
Modern Art and the Black Anthological (2021)
2018–2020
Steven Nelson
University of California, Los Angeles
Structural Adjustment: Mapping, Geography, and the Visual Cultures of Blackness (2020)
On the Underground Railroad / The Black Modernisms Seminars (2019)
2016–2018
Estelle Lingo
University of Washington, Seattle
Unbelievable: Rethinking Caravaggio’s Religious Art (2018)
Mochi’s Edge and Bernini’s Baroque, Caravaggio’s Religious Art, and The Grand Tour from the Italian Perspective (2017)
2014–2016
Paul B. Jaskot
DePaul University
Mapping the Construction Industry in Interwar Germany (1914–1945): Digital Methods and Architectural Historical Sources (2016)
Building, Trotz Alledem! Mapping Construction in Germany, 1914–1924 (2015)
2012–2014
2010–2012
Carmen C. Bambach
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Quest for Authenticity in Michelangelo’s Drawings (2012)
2008–2010
Miguel Falomir
Museo Nacional del Prado
2006–2008
Elizabeth Hill Boone
Tulane University
2004–2006
Alexander Nagel
University of Toronto
2002–2004
Caroline Elam
The Burlington Magazine
2000–2002
Nicholas Penny
National Gallery, London
1998–2000
Malcolm Bell III
University of Virginia
1996–1998
David Freedberg
Columbia University
1994–1996
Elizabeth Cropper
Johns Hopkins University