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.
2020s
2022–2024
Adriana Zavala, Tufts University
Latinx Unsettling (2024)
Networks (2023)
2020–2022
Huey Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
Black Being and Modernist Iconicity (2022)
Modern Art and the Black Anthological (2021)
2010s
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
Lynne Cooke, New York, NY
Outside In: A Study of the Interface Between Mainstream and Self-Taught Art in the United States in the Twentieth Century (2014)
Outside In: A Study of the Interface Between Mainstream and Self-Taught Art in the United States in the Twentieth Century (2013)
2010–2012
Carmen C. Bambach, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Quest for Authenticity in Michelangelo’s Drawings (2012)
2000s
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
1990s
1998–2000
Malcolm Bell III, University of Virginia
1996–1998
David Freedberg, Columbia University
1994–1996
Elizabeth Cropper, Johns Hopkins University
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