2010–2011 | 2011–2012 | 2012–2013 | 2013–2014 | 2014–2015 | 2015–2016 | 2016–2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019–2020 | 2020–2021 | 2021-2022
2021-2022 Fellows
Freer Fellow, University of Michigan
Michelle al-Ferzly
University of Michigan
‘Adab Oblige’: The Art of Medieval Islamic Dining, 850-1450
Museum Research Fellows
Sunwoo Hwang
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
Janet O’Brien
The Courtauld Institute of Art
New York University Public Humanities Fellow
Robin Joyce
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow for American Art
Kerry Roeder
University of Delaware, Newark
Whistler, Dewing and Tryon: Gilded Age Intersections at the Freer Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Institutional Fellowship Program
Yun-chen Lu
University of California, Santa Barbara
A Left-Turn to Artistic Eccentricity: Gao Fenghan (1683-1749) and Disability Art in Premodern Yangzhou
Harrison Schley
University of Pennsylvania
Converging Canons: The Freer Collection and the Japanese National Treasures System
Rashmi Viswanathan
University of Hartford
Receiving the Global Modern: Private Politics of Interest in Post-War United States
Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellows
Jananne Al-Ani
Diana al-Hadid
Shiraz Bayjoo
Imran Qureshi
2020–2021 Fellows in Residence
Alice S. Kandell Fellow in Thangka Conservation
Margaux Ruon
Ecole de Condé, Paris
Treatment of Thangkas in the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room from the Alice S. Kandell Collection
Museum Research Fellows
Sunwoo Hwang
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
Research on Chinese Buddhist Murals from the Tenth to Twelfth Century
Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow for American Art
Kerry Roeder
University of Delaware, Newark
Whistler, Dewing and Tryon: Gilded Age Intersections at the Freer Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Institutional Fellowship Program
Janet O’Brien
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Portraits of Nādir Shāh of Iran and their role in forging the rise of Persian royal portraiture, 1722-1925
Serena Qiu
University of Pennsylvania
Mounting Pacific Ambitions: American Imperialism Responds to East Asian Empire at United States World’s Fairs 1876-1915
Diego Tamburini
University of Pisa, Italy
Exploring the transition from natural to synthetic dyes in the production of 19th-century ikat textiles from Central Asia
Yan Weitian
University of Kansas
Yi Bingshou (1754-1815) and Antiquarianism in Qing China
2019–2020 Fellows in Residence
Anne van Biema Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow
Sonia C. Coman-Ernstoff
Columbia University, New York
Cross-cultural Adaptations of Visual Culture in Japan and the Euro-American World, Then and Now
Freer Fellow, University of Michigan
Robert Święcicki Morrissey
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Enlivening the Living Image: Icons of Divine Youths in Medieval Japanese Religious Traditions
Freer|Sackler Museum Training Fellows
Wen Li
Sunwoo Hwang
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
Research on Chinese Buddhist Murals from the Tenth to Twelfth Century
Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow for American Art
Kerry Roeder
University of Delaware, Newark
Whistler, Dewing and Tryon: Gilded Age Intersections at the Freer Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Institution History of Art Pre-doctoral Fellows
Bronwen Gulkis
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mughal albums in the era of the Emperor Shahjahan (r. 1628-58) and his successors
Gillian (Yanzhuang) Zhang
Ohio State University, Columbus
Image-Making and Intermediality in China (1683-1839)
Smithsonian Institution History of Art Postdoctoral Fellows
Leqi Yu
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Senior Korean Scholar
Eunwoo Jeong
Dong-A University
2018-2019 Fellows in Residence
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Zhi Chao Lyu
Jinyuan Culture Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China
Chinese painting conservation
Anne Van Biema Fellows
Sonia Coman
Columbia University, New York
Freer’s Japanese Ceramics: The Formation and Diffusion of Discourses on Japanese Arts
Aya Ryusawa
Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan
A Study on the Effect of Image Circulation on Narrative Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Ariah East Asia Fellow
Li Ziru
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Chinese Paintings in the Song and Yuan Dynasties
Freer Fellow, University Of Michigan
Susan Dine
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Representations of Language in Early Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art
Freer|Sackler Curatorial Fellow For Southeast Asian Art
Emma Stein
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Southeast Asia at the Freer|Sackler: Past, Present, Future
Freer|Sackler Research Fellow
Koto Sadamura
University of Tokyo, Japan
Hokusai’s Legacy: Kawanabe Kyosai’s Artistic Approach to the Old Master
Freer|Sackler Museum Training Fellows
Wen Li
Sunwoo Hwang
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
Research on Chinese Buddhist Murals from the Tenth to Twelfth Century
Luce Fellow In American Art
Kerry Roeder
University of Delaware, Newark
Whistler’s Watercolors in the Freer Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Institution History Of Art Senior Fellow
Pariwat Thammapreechakorn
Chinese Trade Ware Found in South Asia: Advances in Origin, Dating, and Identity
2017-2018 Fellows in Residence
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Zhi Chao Lyu
Jinyuan Culture Development Co., Ltd, Shanghai
Chinese painting conservation
Ariah East Asia Fellow
Hyo-Eun Park
Institute for East-Asia Cultural Exchange, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Shitao’s Paintings and His Influence of the Pictorial Representations of Nanjing and Yangzhou
Freer Fellow, University Of Michigan
Chun Wa Chan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Faith in Hand: Rescaling Buddhism and Buddhist Material Culture in Early Japan
Freer|Sackler Curatorial Fellow For Ancient Near Eastern Art
Antonietta Catanzariti
University of California, Berkeley
Ceramics, Economy, and Social Practices: A Study of the Freer│Sackler Collection of Ancient Iranian Vessels
Freer|Sackler Curatorial Fellow For Southeast Asian Art
Emma Stein
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Southeast Asia at the Freer|Sackler: Past, Present, Future
Freer|Sackler Research Fellow
Koto Sadamura
University of Tokyo, Japan
Hokusai’s Legacy: Kawanabe Kyosai’s Artistic Approach to the Old Master
Evelyn Eaton
Sidwell Friends School
Investigating Global Competencies through Art with Early Childhood Learners
Freer|Sackler Training Fellow
Wen Li
Korean Cultural Foundation Global Museum Fellow
Sunwoo Hwang
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
Research on Chinese Buddhist Murals from the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries
Luce Fellow In American Art
Kerry Roeder
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Whistler’s Watercolors in the Freer Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Institution History Of Art Predoctoral Fellow
Yecheng Cao
Princeton University
Comparative Studies on the Yangtze Bronzes in the Freer and Sackler Galleries
Murad Khan Mumtaz
University of Virginia
Sufi Icons: Mullah Shah, Jahanara, Dara Shikoh, and the Birth of a Genre
Smithsonian Institution History Of Art Postdoctoral Fellows
Mei Rado
Bard Graduate Center
Arresting Silk: Textiles, Representation, and Narrative in Late Imperial China
Holly Shaffer
Dartmouth College
Viral Media: European and American Prints of India
Smithsonian Institution History Of Art Senior Fellow
Charlotte Horlyck
University of London
Collecting Korean art and the rise of the Korean art market, 1880-1950
2016-2017 Fellows in Residence
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOW
Zhi Chao Lyu
Jinyuan Culture Development Co., Ltd, Shanghai
Chinese painting conservation
ANNE VAN BIEMA FELLOW
Frank Feltens
Columbia University, New York
Living Day by Day: The Art and Life of Ogata Kōrin
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
Heidelberg University, Germany
Postwar Avant-Garde Calligraphy in Japan and Its Internationalization
FREER FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Rebecca Bloom
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Creating Context, Conjuring Experience: Innovative Approaches to Displaying Buddhist Art
Ashley Dimmig
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Flexible Façades, Malleable Modernity: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period
FREER|SACKLER CURATORIAL FELLOW FOR ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART
Antonietta Catanzariti
University of California, Berkeley
Ceramics, Economy, and Social Practices: A Study of the Freer│Sackler Collection of Ancient Iranian Vessels
FREER|SACKLER CURATORIAL FELLOW FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART
Danny Eijsermans
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Buddha: Image in Context. Tensions between the Aesthetic and the Sacred Uses of Buddha’s Depiction
FREER|SACKLER RESEARCH FELLOWS
Alessandro Bianchi
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Digital cataloguing of the Gerhard Pulverer collection
Julie Nelson Davis
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Ukiyo-e in Context
Sana Mirza
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Qur’an manuscripts from the eighth to eighteenth century
Andrew Pekarik
IPOP at Freer and Sackler exhibitions
Koto Sadamura
University of Tokyo, Japan
Hokusai’s Legacy: Kawanabe Kyosai’s Artistic Approach to the Old Master
FREER|SACKLER TRAINING FELLOW
Wen Li
HAGOP KEVORKIAN FUND FELLOW
Claire Cuyaubere
National Institute for Cultural Heritage, Paris
Conservation of Islamic ceramics
KOREAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION GLOBAL MUSEUM FELLOW
Soohyun Yoon
National Museum of Korea
The Reception and Function of Christian Art in Early Modern East Asia
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ARTIST RESEARCH FELLOW
Hugh Livingston
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART PREDOCTORAL FELLOW
Emma Stein
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
All the Streets Lead to Temples: Mapping Monumental Histories in Kanchipuram, circa 690–1199 CE
Giorgi Papashvili
Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and National Research Center for Georgian Art History, Georgia
Visualizing Modern Georgian Painting and Photography around 1900
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