January 28, 2025—The Center is pleased to announce the appointment of seven visiting senior fellows and a visiting postdoctoral fellow. Based in Hungary, Italy, and across the United States, they will join the Center for two-month appointments from March to August 2025.

Robert J. Foster, University of Rochester
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March–April 2025
Tracking “Primitive Art” from New Guinea: How Morton D. May Assembled Department Store Exhibition Sales for Middlebrow America (A Detective Story)

Taylor Johnson, Takoma Park, MD
Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow, March–April 2025 
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Márton Orosz, Vasarely Museum
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2025
The Symbiotic Fabric of Media Art: György Kepes and the Evolution of “Interthinking” in Art and Science

Jody Patterson, The Ohio State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May–June 2025
Modernizing the South: Robert Gwathmey and the Legacies of the New Deal in American Art of the 1940s

Paolo Plebani, Fondazione Accademia Carrara
Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellow, June–August 2025
Ludus Triumphorum: The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards; An Investigation into the Origin of the Cards and Their Iconography

Jeff Rosen, Newberry Library
Berger Collection Educational Trust Visiting Senior Fellow in British Art, June–August 2025
Julia Margaret Cameron’s Imperial Shakespeare

Jonah Rowen, Parsons School of Design, The New School
Berger Collection Educational Trust Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in British Art, June–August 2025
Architecture of Security: Building across the British Black Atlantic

Maureen G. Shanahan, James Madison University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June–August 2025
Pariahs in Paris: Seeing Citizenship and the French Colonial Subject in the Metropole (1914–1940)