Past Fellows
2010–2011 | 2011–2012 | 2012–2013
2012–2013 Fellows in Residence
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOW
Yi-Hsia Hsaio
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Chinese Painting Conservation
ANNE VAN BIEMA FELLOW
Asato Ikeda
University of British Columbia
Translating Fascism: Japanese Painting during the Fifteen Year War (1931–1945)
FORBES FELLOW
Chika Mori
Boston University
Analysis of Dyes on East Asian Textiles
FREER AND SACKLER CONSERVATION FELLOWS
Wenhui Chen
Fujian Museum
Chinese Painting Conservation
Ana Luisa do Vale Fonseca Claro
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Asian Organic Colorants Used in Chinese Textiles Dated from the 16th to 17th Centuries: Their Use, Trade, Influence and Characterization
Ana Raquel Martins dos Santos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
New Carpets for New Markets: The Production and Consumption of Indo-Persian Carpets, 16th and 17th Centuries
Molly McGath
University of Arizona
Development of GCMS Protocols for the Analysis of Artists’ Materials
Yae Takahashi
Chinese Organic Colorants
FREER AND SACKLER CURATORIAL FELLOWS
Myounghee Jeong
National Museum of Korea
Buddhist Art and Ritual: A Comparative Study on the Production of Ritual Paintings in China and Korea
François Lachaud
École française d’Extrême-Orient
Melancholy and the Modern Japanese Metropolis: Kobayashi Kiyochika and His Legacy
HAGOP KEVORKIAN FOUNDATION FELLOW
Claire Cuyaubere
National Institute for Cultural Heritage, Paris
Objects Conservation
IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION FELLOW
Simon Rettig
Kunsthistorisches Institut der Freien, Universität Berlin
Books for the Prince and Books for All? Rethinking the Workshop in the Persianate World (1300–1750)
J.S. LEE MEMORIAL FELLOWS
Ling Lizhong
Shanghai Museum
Song to Qing Dynasty Calligraphy and Painting
Yan Yong
The Palace Museum
Chinese Imperial Textiles and Court Portraits of the Qing Dynasty
LIBRARY TRAVEL GRANTS
Philip K. Hu
Saint Louis Art Museum
Conflicts of Interest: The Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese Military Prints and Related Materials at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Guolong Lai
University of Florida
Digging up Chu Mortuary Religion: Death and Burial in Early China
Ling-en Lu
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Chinese Paintings Collectors in the Early Modern Period: The Painting Collections in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Other Western Museums
Jong Phil Park
University of Colorado, Boulder
Between Artists and Dilettantes: The Social Use of Painting Albums and Manuals in Qing China, Chosŏn Korea, and Edo Japan
Thammika Songkaeo
University of Texas at Austin
Servicing Japanese Taste: Hokusai’s Manga in Nineteenth-century French Tableware
SMITHSONIAN ARTIST RESEARCH FELLOW
Michael Joo
Independent Artist
Digitization and Perception of the Object
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Nachiket Chanchani
University of Michigan
Text and Textile in Western India: The Case of the Freer Vasanta Vilasa
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Huang I-Fen
Brown University
Late Imperial Chinese Embroidery and Tapestry: Technical Innovation, Gender Relations, and Marketing Strategies
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART SENIOR FELLOW
John Siewert
College of Wooster
James McNeill Whistler and the Aesthetic Landscape of London
SMITHSONIAN MINORITY AWARDS PROGRAM VISITING STUDENT
Hamidreza Jayhani
The Art University of Isfahan
Comparative Study on the Perceptible Images from Poets and Painters Stance to Recognize the Structures of the Open Spaces in the Illustrated Garden’s Scenes from 14th to 16th Centuries CE
Fellows in Residence 2011-2012
ANNE VAN BIEMA FELLOW
Ignacio Adriasola
Duke University
Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in Post-Anpo Japan (1960–70)
FORBES FELLOW
Federico Carò
University of Pavia
Mineralogy of Ancient Southeast Asian Materials
FREER AND SACKLER CURATORIAL FELLOW
Shuko Koyama
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Studies of the Robert O. Muller Collection of Japanese Prints
J.S. LEE MEMORIAL FELLOW
Sun Miao
Palace Museum, Beijing
Projects in Exhibition Design
LUNDER FELLOW
Margaret Laster
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828–1887): Gilded-Age Patron; Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Inaugural Symposium (in Honor of Margaret MacDonald)
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MUSEUM FELLOWSHIP
Suzie Kim
University of Maryland
1930s Modernism in Germany and Japan
HAUGE CURATORIAL FELLOW
Pariwat Thammapreechakorn
Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, Bangkok
New Perspectives on South East Asian Ceramics
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART SENIOR FELLOW
François Lachaud
École française d’Extrême-Orient
Melancholy and the Modern Japanese Metropolis: Kobayashi Kiyochika and His Legacy
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
Huang I-Fen
Brown University
Late Imperial Chinese Embroidery and Tapestry: Technical Innovation, Gender Relations, and Marketing Strategies
Lamia Balafrej
University of Aix-Marseille I
Illustrated Manuscripts of Sa'dî in the Freer and Sackler Galleries
CONSERVATION OF MUSEUM COLLECTIONS POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Elisabetta Polidori
Scuola di Alta Formazione
Survey of Islamic Art on Paper from the Collections of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and Scientific Investigation of a Group of Illuminated Folios from the Gulistan.
SMITHSONIAN ARTIST RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Avish Khebrezadeh
Independent Scholar
Animal Behavior and the Role of Animal Imagery in Allegorical Contexts
Fellows in Residence 2010-2011
Anne van Biema Fellow
Alfred Haft
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Correspondences between the Classical World and the Floating World (Ukiyo) of the Edo period
Forbes Fellow
Federico Caro
University of Pavia
Mineralogy of Ancient Southeast Asian Materials
J.S. Lee Fellows
Chan Lai-pik
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Animal-shaped Jade Carvings and Bronzes in the Pre-Qin Dynasty; Reinstallation of Freer Chinese Galleries
Xiong Yingfei
Shanghai Museum
The Glaze of Iron and Copper Colorants in Ancient Chinese Ceramics: Composition and Technique Studies
Lunder Fellow
Margaret Laster
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828–1887): Gilded-Age Patron; Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Inaugural Symposium (in Honor of Margaret MacDonald)
Smithsonian Institution History of Art Fellows
Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow
Prudence Ahrens (shared appointment with the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
University of Queensland
Travelling Modernisms: American Art and the South Pacific
Elizabeth Lee (shared appointment with the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Dickinson College
Therapeutic Culture: Health and Illness in Turn-of-the-Century American Art
Smithsonian Institution History of Art Predoctoral Fellows
Brinda Kumar
Cornell University
Collecting South Asian Art: Analyzing Private Positions, Public Narratives and the Writing of Art History
Seung Yeon Sang
Boston University
Influence and Reception of Hybrid Ceramics: The Ceramic Production of the Japan House Kilns during the 17th to 18th Centuries
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