Past Fellows
2010–2011 | 2011–2012 | 2012–2013 | 2013–2014 | 2014–2015 | 2015–2016
2015–2016 Fellows in Residence
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOW
Zhi Chao Lyu
Jinyuan Culture Development Co., Ltd, Shanghai
Chinese painting conservation
FREER|SACKLER CONSERVATION RESEARCH FELLOW
Raquel Santos
Centre for Overseas History (CHAM-FCSH) and New University of Lisbon (UNL), Portugal
New Carpets for New Markets: The Production and Consumption of Indo-Persian Carpets, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
FREER|SACKLER CURATORIAL FELLOW
Simon Rettig
Islamic works on paper
FREER|SACKLER RESEARCH FELLOWS
Alessandro Bianchi
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Digital cataloguing of the Gerhard Pulverer collection
Sana Mirza
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Qur’an manuscripts from the eighth to eighteenth century
FREER|SACKLER PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND MARKETING FELLOW
Melissa Brashear
FREER|SACKLER TRAINING FELLOW
Wen Li
HAGOP KEVORKIAN FUND FELLOW
Claire Cuyaubere
National Institute for Cultural Heritage, Paris
Conservation of Islamic ceramics
HIRAYAMA FELLOWSHIP
Eina Kirihara
National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
Japanese painting conservation
KOREAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION GLOBAL MUSEUM FELLOW
Seung Hee Oh
Seoul National University Museum, Korea
Goryeo Buddhist paintings
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ARTIST RESEARCH FELLOWS
Lauren Jane Alexander
Ghalia Elsrakbi
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART PREDOCTORAL FELLOW
Mira Xenia Schwerda
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visualizing Modernity: Photography, Print Culture, and Painting in Nineteenth-Century Iran and Central Asia
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION MINORITY AWARDS PROGRAM FELLOW
Priyanka Srinivasa
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Anthropological Perspectives and the Politics and Poetics of Displaying Religious Art
2014–2015 Fellows in Residence
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOW
Zhi Chao Lyu
Jinyuan Culture Development Co., Ltd, Shanghai
Chinese painting conservation
ANNE VAN BIEMA FELLOW
Kristopher Kersey
University of California, Berkeley
Manifold Implication: A Japanese Fan Inscribed by Hosokawa Yūsai (1535–1610)
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL FELLOW
Borbala Nyiri
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Study of Southeast Asian tradeware ceramics
FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FELLOW
Raquel Santos
Centre for Overseas History (CHAM-FCSH) and New University of Lisbon (UNL), Portugal
New Carpets for New Markets: The Production and Consumption of Indo-Persian Carpets, 16th and 17th Centuries
FREER AND SACKLER CURATORIAL FELLOW
Simon Rettig
Books for the Prince and Books for All? Rethinking the Workshop in the Persianate World (1300–1750)
FULBRIGHT FELLOW
Radchada Buntem
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Spectroscopic characterizations of ancient glass beads
HAGOP KEVORKIAN FUND FELLOWS
Claire Cuyaubere
National Institute for Cultural Heritage, Paris
Conservation of Islamic ceramics
Amanda Hope Malkin
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Conservation of Islamic manuscripts
HIRAYAMA FELLOWSHIP
Eina Kirihara
National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
Japanese painting conservation
KOREAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION GLOBAL MUSEUM FELLOW
Soojin Jung
Seoul National University, Korea
Goryeo Buddhist paintings
ROBERT H. N. HO FOUNDATION OF HONG KONG VISITING SCHOLAR
Jie Chang
Palace Museum, Beijing
Chinese painting conservation
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ARTIST RESEARCH FELLOW
Praneet Soi
Research in the collections of south Asian art and arts of the Islamic world
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FELLOWS
Amy E. Hughes
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center
Analysis and examination of James McNeill Whistler’s watercolors
Chika Mori
Boston University
Analysis of dyes on east Asian textiles
Molly McGath
University of Arizona
Development of GCMS protocols for the analysis of artists’ materials
Stacy Bowe
University College of London
Whistler’s Watercolors: Radiographic Study of Watermarks
Waliporn Suthabanditpong
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Spectroscopic characterizations of ancient glass beads
Rong Wang
Fudan University, Shanghai
Alteration of Chinese jades
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Moonsil Lee Kim
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Use-Context and the Potential Poisoning of Food and Liquid Caused by Containers from the Bronze Age to the Early Imperial Period (ca. 1600 BCE–220 CE)
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART PREDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Vivek Gupta
Columbia University, New York
The Art of Transcultural India and the Patronage of 'Abd al-Rahim Khan-i Khanan
Gregory Seiffert
Princeton University, New Jersey
The Album Format in Seventeenth-Century Nanjing Painting
2013–2014 Fellows in Residence
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOW
Yi-Hsia Hsaio
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Chinese Painting Conservation
ANNE VAN BIEMA FELLOW
Hank Glassman
Haverford College
On the Iconography, Ritual, and History of the Gorintō Grave in Japan
FREER FELLOWSHIP, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Vivian Li
University of Michigan
Contemporary Asian Art
FULBRIGHT FELLOW
Radchada Buntem
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Spectroscopic Characterizations of Ancient Glass Beads
FUNDAÇÃO PARA A CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA FELLOW
Raquel Santos
Centre for Overseas History (CHAM-FCSH) & New Univerity of Lisbon (UNL), Portugal
New Carpets for New Markets: The Production and Consumption of Indo-Persian Carpets, 16th and 17th Centuries
HAGOP KEVORKIAN FUND FELLOWS
Claire Cuyaubere
National Institute for Cultural Heritage, Paris
Conservation of Islamic Ceramics
Amanda Hope Malkin
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Conservation of Islamic Manuscripts
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)”
MUSEUM TRAINING FELLOW
Kailin Weng
ROBERT H. N. HO FOUNDATION OF HONG KONG VISITING SCHOLAR
Chang Jie
The Palace Museum, Beijing
Chinese Painting Conservator
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FELLOWS
Amy E. Hughes
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center
Analysis and Examination of James McNeill Whistler’s Watercolors
Chika Mori
Boston University
Analysis of Dyes on East Asian Textiles
Molly McGath
University of Arizona
Development of GCMS Protocols for the Analysis of Artists’ Materials
Stacy Bowe
University College of London
Whistler’s Watercolors: Radiographic Study of Watermarks
Waliporn Suthabanditpong
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Spectroscopic Characterizations of Ancient Glass Beads
Wang Rong
Fudan University, Shanghai
Alteration of Chinese Jades
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Brice Vincent
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Casting Core Materials from Angkorian Bronzes
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART PREDOCTORAL FELLOW
Gregory Seiffert
Princeton University
The Album Format in Seventeenth-century Nanjing Painting
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FELLOW
Madeline Gent
University of Maryland
Chinese Paintings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties
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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