Past Fellows

Anne van Biema Fellow

Dr. Freya Terryn, KU Leuven
“Reevaluating the Bunmei Kaika Cameraman: The Art and Life of Utagawa Hiroshige III”

Dr. Andrea (Nina) Horisaki-Christens, Columbia University
“Participatory Technologies and the Techno-orientalist Gaze: How the video camera and the photocopier reshaped ideas of public space in 1970s Tokyo and why the world misunderstood”

Dr. Miriam (Mimi) Chusid, University of Washington
“Envisioning the Afterlife: Image, Text, and Ritual Practice in Premodern Japan”

Ebrahimi Fellow for Persian Art

Amanda Leong, University of California, Merced
“Bearded Women, Cross-Dressers and Powerlifters: Female Javanmardi in the Early Modern Persianate World”

Dr. Leila T. Yazdi, Iranology Foundation (Shahid Beheshti University)
“Enchanted by the Gol: Persian Bird and Flower Painting in the Second Half of the 18th Century”

Charles Lang Freer Fellow, University of Michigan

Ross Lee Bernhaut, University of Michigan
“Gwalior’s Giant Jinas: Desecration, Reimagination, Restoration”

Youngshin Yook, University of Michigan
“Morphing Landscape: Hung Hsien’s Ink Abstractions at the Freer Gallery of Art”

Smithsonian Institution Fellow

Xiaoyi (Diana) Yang, Bard Graduate Center
“Migrating Dragons across the Sea: Zhangzhou Ceramics for Japan and Southeast Asia”

Xiangming Chen, University of Oxford
“Marketing Chinese Art in the Tokugawa World: Painting Manuals and China Fad in Early Modern Japan”

Visiting Researcher

Dr. Michael Garbutt, University of New South Wales

Anne van Biema Fellow

Dr. Talia Andrei, Wesleyan University
“Sacred Journeys and Institutional Rivalries”

Dr. Yasuko Tsuchikane
“Dōmoto Inshō and the “Sacred Art World”: The Making of Modern Temple Art in the Twentieth Century”

Charles Lang Freer Fellow, University of Michigan

Holley Ledbetter, University of Michigan
“Objects of Wonder in the Fatimid World”

Sandra Williams, University of Michigan
“Mardānagi/ Zanānagi: Gender Representation in Persianate Painting”

Smithsonian Institution Fellow

Junyao He, The Courtauld Institute of Art
“The Scarred Faces: Smallpox and Manchu Masculinity in portraiture of Qing China”

Alireza Khounani, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
“The Magnitude of Small Change: The Role of Low-value Currencies in the Internal Economy of West Asian Empires (Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian Periods, 550 BCE-651 CE)”

ARIAH East Asia Fellow

Xingrui Lai, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
“Tribute Animals from foreign lands: A case study of the Foreign Beasts”

Visiting Researcher

Bong Kang, Gyeongju University
“A Study on the Bangudae Petroglyphs in Conjunction with Whaling during the Neolithic Korea”

Yoshitaka Yamamoto, National Institute for Japanese Literature

University of Glasgow-Smithsonian Fellow

Kristina Astrom, University of Glasgow
“Of Fans and Butterflies: The Folding of Subject and Mediality in the Works of James McNeill Whistler and Stéphane Mallarmé”

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

Imran Qureshi

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”

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

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”

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”

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”

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 painting”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”