Postdoctoral Fellows
A list of former postdoctoral fellows at the Center and their research projects. Learn more about these fellowships.
2023–2025
Maria Gabriella Matarazzo
Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow
Beyond “Buon Fresco”: Experimenting with Oil in Early Modern Mural Painting (c. 1500–1650) (2024)
2023–2024
Anni Pullagura, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
Center/YCBA Postdoctoral Fellow
Seeing Feeling: Troubling Empathy in Contemporary Art
2022–2024
Benjamin O. Murphy
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art (2024)
Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art (2023)
2021–2023
Nisa Ari
Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow
Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and “The Welfare of Palestine,” 1876–1948 (2023)
Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and “The Welfare of Palestine,” 1876–1948 (2022)
2020–2022
Ellen Tani
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Charles Gaines and Black Conceptual Practice (2022)
Black Conceptual Practice, 1970–1985 (2021)
2018–2020
Rachel Grace Newman
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
To Search for Beauty in the Ruins: Nineteenth-Century Jamaica and the Work of William Berryman (2020)
William Berryman and His Worlds: Art Production and Patronage in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica (2019)
2016–2018
Megan C. McNamee
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Picturing Number in the Central Middle Ages (2018)
Picturing Number: Denumeration and Representation in Europe, c. 1000 (2017)
2015–2017
Fernando Loffredo
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
A Poetic Urgency: Sculpture and Poetry in Dialogue in the Early Modern World (2017)
A Corsair History of Sculpture: Abducting Italian Fountains in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2016)
2014–2016
Lihong Liu
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
The Real Scene: Painting, Life, and Place in China, 1450–1550 (2016)
The Real Scene: Painting and Place in China, 1450–1550 (2015)
2013–2015
Caroline O. Fowler
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Absence Made Present: An Early Modern History of Drawing and the Senses (2015)
Absence Made Present: Drawing the Memory Body, 1400–1750 (2014)
2012–2014
Stephen Hart Whiteman
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722) (2014)
Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722) (2013)
2011–2013
Łukasz Stanek
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Henri Lefebvre's “Vers une architecture de la jouissance” (1973): Toward an Architectural Research
2010–2011
Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2010–October 2011
Vitruvius on Display: Domestic Decor and Roman Self-Fashioning at the End of the Republic
2009–2011
Megan E. O’Neil
University of Southern California
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures
2009–2010
Hendrik W. Dey
Hunter College of the City University of New York
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Architecture, Ceremony, and the Construction of Authority in Late Antiquity
2007–2009
Douglas Brine
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
The Content and Context of Wall-Mounted Memorials in the Burgundian Netherlands
2006–2008
Amy Freund
Southern Methodist University
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Revolutionary Likenesses: Portraiture and Politics in France, 1789–1804