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All Past Themes and Scholars

Year

Theme

2023-2024

Art and Technology

African American Art History

Anatolia and the Classical World (Villa)

2022-2023

Art and Migration

African American Art History

Phoenicians, Philistines, and Canaanites: The Levant and the

Classical World (Villa)

2021-2022

The Fragment

African American Art History

The Levant and the Classical World (Villa)

2020-2021

The Fragment

Phoenicians, Philistines, and Canaanites: The Levant and the

Classical World (Villa)

2019-2020

Art and Ecology

The Classical World in Context: Thrace (Villa)

2018-2019

MONUMENTALITY

The Classical World in Context: Persia (Villa)

2017-2018

Iconoclasm and Vandalism

The Classical World in Context: Persia (Villa)

2016-2017

Art and Anthropology

The Classical World in Context: Egypt (Villa)

2015-2016

Art and Materiality

The Classical World in Context: Egypt (Villa)

2014-2015

Object—Value—Canon

2013-2014

Connecting Seas: Cultural and Artistic Exchange

Last updated June 2023

2012-2013

Color

2011-2012

Artistic Practice

2010-2011

The Display of Art

2009-2010

The Display of Art

2008-2009

Networks and Boundaries

Ancient Images (Villa)

2007-2008

Change

Cultural Identity (Villa)

2006-2007

Religion and Ritual

2005-2006

Duration: Persistence of Antiquity

2004-2005

Duration

2003-2004

Markets and Value

2003-2002

Biography

2001-2002

Frames of Viewing: Perception, Experience, Judgment

2000-2001

Reproductions and Originals

1999-2000

Humanities in Comparative, Historical Perspective

1997-1999

Representing the Passions

1996-1997

Perspectives on Los Angeles: Narratives, Images, History

1995-1996

The Nature and Idea of Collecting

1994-1995

Memory

1993-1994

The Americas

1992-1993

The Metropolis as Crucible

1991-1992

Popular and Mass Culture

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1990-1991

Time and Ritual in Antiquity

1989-1990

The Avant-Garde

1988-1989

The Production of Artifacts and the Formation of Disciplines

1987-1988

Reception and Interpretation of the Arts

1986-1987

Seventeenth Century Dutch Art and Society/Patronage

1985-1986

Aesthetic Experience and Aﬃnities Among the Arts

Scholars and fellows in residence under the Getty Scholars Program join a lively cohort of

researchers and professionals hosted across the Getty campuses. In addition to the applications for

the annual theme, there are open calls for applications to the African American Art History Initiative

(AAAHI), the Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, and the Getty Conservation Institute. Certain

categories, such as Guest Scholars, Artists in Residence, the President's International Council

Scholars, Connecting Art Histories Scholars, and Museum Scholars, are nominated by invitation only.

In addition, each year a Consortium Scholar is selected from the cohort to teach a seminar oriented

around the annual theme, which is open via application to graduate students in Southern California.

The Consortium Scholar must be aﬃliated with a Southern California university.

In past years, the program has hosted Getty Rothschild Fellows, GRI-Volkswagen Postdoctoral

Fellows (with support from the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany), and GRI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

2023-2024

Art and Technology

The making of art has always been impacted by the limitations and advances of the technologies at

hand. Throughout human history, artists have invariably embraced technological innovations—from

the casting of ancient bronzes to the invention of the tin paint tube to the printing of

three-dimensional objects—and harnessed the new possibilities afforded by them. Art and

technology are deeply intertwined; after all, the terms "technology" and "technique" are both derived

from the Greek word techne, meaning "art" or "craft." Technological developments spur artistic

experimentation by extending the horizon of what is possible and by encouraging artists to consider

traditional mediums in new ways and to explore new mediums altogether.

The theme of "Art & Technology" encompasses questions on manufacture and craft, process and

invention, materiality and immateriality, and the digital and the virtual:

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● How do Indigenous epistemologies support or underpin alternative concepts and

frameworks for understanding the relationship between art and technology?

● How do technologies move across cultures, and how are they transformed in the process?

What happens to technologies as they travel between cultures? How do they evolve and

adapt?

● How do ancient technologies inform contemporary artistic practice, and what possibilities

are afforded by contemporary technology to reckon with art of the deep past?

● What are the implications of nonhuman systems of production?

● How can technologies be productively misused by artists?

● How have technological advances changed and challenged modes of viewership?

African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI) Fellowship

AAAHI will support two fellows to generate new knowledge in the expanding ﬁeld of African

American art history. Projects that propose engagement with Getty’s growing collections of archival

and primary source material related to African American art history—particularly post-World War

II—are welcome. However, relevance to Getty holdings is not a project requirement. We invite

applications from scholars who focus on African American art and visual culture in all time periods

and media and in a broad range of theoretical and methodological traditions. Applicants should

indicate how their project would align with AAAHI's aim to make African American art history more

visible to the public and accessible to the scholarly community worldwide. While proposals do not

have to address the concurrent annual theme, they may highlight any salient intersections with it.

Anatolia and the Classical World (Villa)

The Getty Scholars Program at the Villa will examine relations between the Greek cities of western

Asia Minor and Anatolian civilizations from the 2nd millennium to the Roman Imperial period. In the

Late Bronze Age, diplomatic ties linked the Hittite and Luwian kingdoms with the Mycenaeans at

Miletos. During the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, the eastern Greeks were at the forefront of

revolutionary advances in the arts, monumental architecture, poetry, philosophy, history, and the

natural sciences. This "Ionian Enlightenment," however, culminated within a dynamic cultural and

political setting alongside Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia, which had already emerged as regional

powers over the previous two centuries. Subject to Persian rule after 547 BCE, Greek and Anatolian

communities redeﬁned their own identities until the conquest of Alexander the Great and the advent

of Roman rule once again transformed the cultural landscapes of the entire region.

Getty Scholars

Meredith Cohen (Consortium Scholar) is associate professor in the Department of Art History at the

University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on medieval art and architecture, cultural

heritage and conservation theory, and digital technologies for research and pedagogy.

Imagining the Lady Chapel: Gothic Architecture and the Poetics of Digital Reconstruction

(September–June)

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Patrick Crowley is associate curator of European art in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.

He specializes in European art, particularly the art and archaeology of the Roman world.

Solid Pictures: Photosculpture and the Reproduction of Reality

(September–December)

Eva Díaz is associate professor in the History of Art and Design Department at the Pratt Institute,

Brooklyn, New York. Her research centers on modern and contemporary art, as well as new media.

A Riot of Perfume: Biopolitical Technologies and Non-Visual Art

(September–March)

Roger Fayet is director of the Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zurich, Switzerland.

His ﬁeld of research is modernist painting.

Why leave it visible? How works by Ferdinand Hodler ostentatiously display his use of technical

devices and what it could mean

(September–December)

Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi is associate professor in the Art History Department at Emory University,

Atlanta, Georgia. Her areas of research include African art history and digital art history.

“Mapping Senufo”: Art, Technology, and a Reimagined Scholarly Monograph

(September–June)

Jason Hill is associate professor of ar t history at the University of Delaware, Newark. His research

focuses on the history of photography, art of the United States, and visual culture.

The Static Image: Police Media and Documentar y Photography in 20th-Century America

(January–June)

Sabine Klein is professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. She specializes in pyrometallurgy,

smelting, ore geology, and elemental and isotopic geochemistry.

Appropriation of cosmic iron in art and technology (CosmArT)

(September–December)

Yuliya Sorokina is associate professor at the Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts, Almaty,

Kazakhstan. Her research centers on the art history of post-Soviet countries.

Wrong Usage: Domestic Tools as Art Technology in Post-Soviet Countries

(September–June)

Saburo Sugiyama is research professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at

Arizona State University, Tempe. His ﬁeld of research is pre-Columbian urbanism.

Embodying Mesoamerican Cosmic Cities: New Visualization Technologies at Teotihuacan & Monte

Alban

(September–June)

Kristine Tanton is associate professor of medieval art in the Depar tment of Art History and Film

Studies at the Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

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Imagining the Lady Chapel: Gothic Architecture and the Poetics of Digital Reconstruction

(September–June)

Alex Walthall is associate professor of Greek and Roman Archaeology in the Department of Classics

at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on Greek art and classical archaeology.

Hellenistic Technology in the Wild

(January–June)

Postdoctoral Fellows – Theme: Art & Technology

Nina Horisaki-Christens is a 2021–23 Mary Griggs Burke Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Columbia

University, New York. Her research focuses on the intersection of art, media, urbanism, translation,

and social engagement in Japan, Asia, and the Asian diaspora.

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

(September–June)

Manuel Shvar tzberg Carrió is assistant professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning

at the University of California, San Diego. He researches the architectural and urban history of

modernism with a focus on technology, geopolitics, labor, Indigeneity, and racial capitalism.

Decolonial Technics: Midcentury Modern Architecture on the Agua Caliente Reservation

(September–June)

Zsoﬁ Valyi-Nagy is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National

Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She specializes in modern and contemporary art, technology, and

gender.

Drawing Machines: Vera Molnar’s Abstract Computer Graphics, 1968–1989

(September–June)

Predoctoral Fellows – Theme: Art & Technology

Magdalena Grüner is a PhD candidate in art history at the Universität Hamburg, Germany. Her

research focuses on the intersections of modern art, science and technology, epistemic images,

history of natural history, ocean humanities, and feminist art history.

The Science/Fictions of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions

(September–June)

Nina Wexelblatt is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art

program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research centers on the history of 20th

century art and technology.

Telepresence: Transnational Satellite Art and the "Open Empire"

(September–June)

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Getty Scholars for the African American Art History Initiative

julia elizabeth neal is assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her study focuses

on modern and contemporary art, African American art, performance, conceptual art, critical

historiography, transnationalism and internationalism.

Benjamin Patterson: Theory and Praxis

(September—June)

James Smalls is professor of visual arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His

specialty is in African American art, European art, and Black Diasporic visual culture.

Féral Benga: African Muse of Modernism

(September—June)

GRI Guest Scholars

Maggie Cao is David G. Frey Associate Professor in the Art and Art History Department at the

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century

American art and the intersections of art with histories of technology, natural science, and

economics.

Time Warps and Time Keeping: American Art and the Ecological Archive

(January—March)

Carolina Caycedo (Artist in Residence) (1978) is a Colombian, London-born, multidisciplinary artist

known for her performances, videos, artist’s books, sculptures, and installations that examine

environmental and social issues. Her work contributes to the construction of environmental

historical memory as a fundamental element for non-repetition of violence against human and

nonhuman entities. Caycedo is currently a nominee for the Artes Mundi 10 prize in Wales. She lives

and works in Los Angeles.

Serpent River Book Vol 2.

(September—June)

María Olvido Moreno Guzmán is an independent scholar. Her ﬁeld of expertise is in pre-Hispanic

Mexico, colonial Mexico, indigenous religion, and feather art from Ancient Mexico.

Catalog of Feathers Used by the Ancient Amantecas

(September—December)

Yulia Mylnikova is a historian of premodern China and independent scholar. Her research focuses on

the 10th- through 13th-century literary and material culture of the Tangut empire.

The Buddha is in the Detail: Print Technology, Book Production, and the Making of Tangut Art

(September—June)

President’s International Council Scholar

Deborah Swallow is the Märit Rausing Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England. Her

area of research is in Indian art and anthropology.

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The future of museums: debate and practice in the Indian context

(April–June)

Connecting Art Histories Scholars

Pagona Papadopoulou is assistant professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Aristotle

University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interests include numismatics and sigillography in

the medieval period and the minor arts in Byzantium.

Representations of the Prophet Daniel in Late Byzantine Art

(April—June)

Thanavi Chotpradit is lecturer in the Department of Art History at Silpakorn University, Bangkok,

Thailand. She specializes in modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia.

Amorphous Translation: Three Case Studies of Contemporary Art Initiatives from Southeast Asia

(April—June)

Museum Guest Scholars

Thea Burns is an independent scholar and adjunct associate professor in the Art Conservation

Program, Department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. Her

study focuses on works on paper and parchment, with special interest in medieval and Renaissance

drawing and writing materials.

Car ta azzurra: a study of early modern European blue paper

(January—March)

Jacob L Dahl is professor of Assyriology in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and

fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University. He specializes in late 3rd millennium BC

administrative history and the invention and early spread of writing in the ancient Near East.

Late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BC seals from Ancient Mesopotamia

(July–September)

Ann Hoenigswald is senior conservator emerita of paintings at the National Gallery of Art,

Washington, DC. Her research focuses on late 19th-century and early modern works.

Degas's Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli: Process and Decision Making for a Reworked Painting

(September—December)

Dorothy Kosinski is director emerita of The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. She specializes in

19th century symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, 20th century sculpture, and contemporary art.

1. Douglas Cooper at the Chateau de Castille: A cultural life in post-war France

2. Purpose is the only thing: Towards a model of authentic impact in the 21st century museum

(January—March)

Megan McNamee is lecturer, history of art at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research

interests encompass questions of form, style, transmedial effects, and the interplay of intellectual

and material culture in medieval Europe.

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Premodern Conceptions of Time, Folding, and Tablet Weaving

(January—March)

Vadim Parfenov is professor in the Depar tment of Photonics at the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical

University. His research centers on optics and lasers, conservation, and cultural heritage.

The application of the Thunder Compact Laser in the cleaning of ancient marble surfaces: Research

and experimentation to develop safe conservation protocols

(April—June)

Georg Plattner is director of the collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Ephesus Museum

of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. He specializes in the architecture of Ephesus and

classical archaeology.

The scaenae frons of the Ephesian Theatre

(April—June)

Anthony Sigel is an independent conservator and scholar. His study encompasses conservation of

objects and sculpture, and particularly in European terracotta sculpture.

The technical study of two Michelangelo terracotta models in the Casa Buonarotti, “Due Lottatori,” and

“Female Torso”

(September—December)

Jennifer Tonkovich is the Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints

at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Her work is focused on French drawings.

Treating 19th-century French Drawings as Old Masters: New Narratives for the Morgan’s Online

Catalogue

(July—September)

Getty Villa Scholars

Mary Bachvarova is the Lindsay and Corinne Stewart Chair in Humanities and Professor of Classical

studies at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Exploring how descendants of prayers and

incantations attested at Hattusa were transmitted to Archaic Greek poets, her research focuses on

peer sanctuary interaction from the Aegean Anatolian littoral, sailors’ religious networks, and

indigenous Anatolian magic rituals.

Greek Poetry and the Near East

(September–December)

Alain Duplouy is associate professor of Greek archaeology at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,

France. He will investigate luxury as a behavior in the cities of the Greek East, speciﬁcally exploring

concepts of luxury, which were viewed either as strongly negative or were highly valued in East Greek

society.

Ex Oriente luxus ? The politics of habrosunē. A behavioral approach to archaic Asia Minor

(April–June)

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Elspeth Dusinberre is professor of distinction in classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her

project will investigate the elite quarter of the Phrygian capital at Gordion around 800 BCE, seeking

to understand how the community lived and negotiated power, and how interconnectivities with

Greece affected sociocultural expressions.

Early Phrygian Gordion and the Classical World ca. 800 BCE

(January–March)

Amanda Herring is associate professor of art history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles,

California. During her residency, she will consider depictions of Greek heroes, notably Herakles,

Bellerophon, and Ariadne, in the art of Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia and consider how heroes were

transformed from tools of conquest to loci of local identity and cult to serve the populations of

Anatolia.

Anatolizing Greek Heroes in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia

(September–December)

Hazar Kaba is associate professor of archaeology at Sinop University, Turkey. Based on the

architecture and material assemblages from three fourth-century BCE houses in the colony of

Sinope, his project will trace the development of Ionian culture and its connections with the wider

Greek world.

Late Fourth-Century BCE Houses From Sinope as Mediums to Understand the Ionian Culture Within a

Wider Geographic Context

(January–March)

Hilmar Klinkott is professor of ancient history in the Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde at

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in Germany. His research will evaluate how the Achaemenid

empire may have triggered the processes of cultural and political integration in the Anatolian region.

Anatolian Local Identities under Achaemenid Rule

(April–June)

Sarah Madole Lewis is associate professor of art history at the Borough of Manhattan Community

College, CUNY, in New York. Her research at the Getty Villa advances a larger book project on the

funerary landscapes of the Roman East and in particular, how sarcophagi offer a glimpse into the

distinctive aesthetic and social values expressed in the region.

Sarcophagi as Markers of Identity in their Local Contexts in Roman Anatolia

(January–March)

Kathryn R. Morgan is assistant professor of classical studies at Duke University in Durham, North

Carolina. Her research centers on disentangling the afterlife of Gordian and the Phrygians in

Classical literature from the actual lived experience of the citadel at the time of its destruction by ﬁre

in the ninth century BCE, as a case study in the processes and practices of ancient state formation.

Beyond Midas: Towards a Postcolonial Archaeology of Phrygia

(September–December)

Felipe Rojas is associate professor of archaeology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Through the lenses of history, archaeology, and anthropology, he will analyze the performances of

dance and acrobatics that were undertaken to maintain, transmit, and manipulate historical

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narratives in Anatolia during the ﬁrst millennium BCE.

Kinesthetic Histories in Ancient Anatolia

(April–June)

Andreas Schachner is senior researcher at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Istanbul,

Turkey. His research project explores the socio-cultural and socio-economic reasons for the

replacement of irregularly structured ediﬁces with modular public buildings as the Hittite Kingdom

was established around 1650 BCE.

Modular Architecture in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Anatolia: The Cases of Boğazköy/Hattusha ,

Göllüdağ, and Kerkenes Dağı

(January–March)

Willemijn Waal is lecturer at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. She will conduct an

interdisciplinary study of early Greek and Hittite epics, with the aim of challenging the current

paradigm holding that the Iliad and Odyssey are the product of a strictly oral tradition. Her research

explores the Late Bronze Age mixture of oral and written traditions that shaped Homeric epic.

Oral or Aural? Ancient Greek Epic from an Anatolian Perspective

(September–December)

Museum Scholar

George Plattner is the director of the collection of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Ephesos

Museum in Vienna, Austria. While at the Getty Villa, his research will analyze the architectural history

of the Great Theater at Ephesos, focusing primarily on the architecture of the stage building and the

frieze with hunting Erotes.

The scaenae frons of the Ephesian Theatre

(April–June)

2022-2023

Art and Migration

The theme of migration has remained an inherent subject of art ever since some modern humans

began to move across the planet, bringing their objects and technologies with them. Whether in

Mesoamerica, the ancient Mediterranean, or medieval Africa, war, invasion, colonialism,

enslavement, resettlement, and trade have fundamentally altered cultural production, reception, and

rituals. In light of the many recent migration crises throughout the world, artists and scholars have

responded to the critical movement of people and artifacts in myriad ways.

This year's theme encompasses questions of memory, destruction of cultural heritage, provenance

and repatriation, and the complex lives of movable objects, traditions, and practices. How does art

that concerns migration contribute to or detract from ideas about belonging and community;

assimilation and isolation; tradition, innovation, and legal or cultural boundaries? How are patterns or

processes of movement made visible or invisible through the artworks, objects, and communities

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that are created, adapted, abandoned, or destroyed? Furthermore, what happens when mobility is

brought to a halt?

African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI) Fellowship

Two opportunities for nine-month residencies have been created under the Getty's African American

Ar t History Initiative (AAAHI), an ambitious program that aims to address an incomplete version of

American art history by increasing the Research Institute's African American—related collections,

research, exhibitions, projects, publications, events, and partnerships with local and national

institutions. The fellowships will provide ﬁnancial support and housing to scholars undertaking

research projects that speak to the goals of the initiative. As part of the larger scholar year cohort,

AAAHI fellows will have opportunities to present their research and receive feedback from an

interdisciplinary group of peers.

Our special collections include archival and primary source material related to African American art

history—particularly post-World War II, modern, and contemporary—and we are acquiring and

processing major collections or collaborating on acquisitions from a range of artists and institutions.

We welcome expressions of interest from scholars working at predoctoral, postdoctoral, mid-career,

and senior levels who focus on African American art and cultural history in all time periods and

media and in a broad range of theoretical and methodological traditions. Applicants should indicate

how their project would beneﬁt from our resources, which might include special collections, the

Getty Library, or the scholar year cohort, and from alignment with AAAHI's aims and goals.

Phoenicians, Philistines, and Canaanites: The Levant and the Classical

World (Villa)

For a third year, the 2022/2023 term of the Getty Scholars Program at the Villa will focus on the

ancient cultures of the Levant and their relations with the classical world. Lying on the eastern

seaboard of the Mediterranean, the Levant was a crucial crossroads between the classical world of

Greece and Rome and the kingdoms of the Near East. Home to the ancient peoples of Phoenicia,

Ugarit, Canaan, Philistia, Jordan, Israel, and Judah, this region participated in a vibrant Bronze-Age

network of trade that ﬂourished for many centuries until a combination of warfare, migration and

famine around 1200 BCE destroyed these palace societies.

In the ﬁrst millennium BCE, a Greek-Phoenician rivalry for control of colonies and seaborne trade

routes as far west as Spain caused considerable conﬂict but also bore fruit in the diffusion of

alphabetic scripts and cross-inﬂuences in literature, mythology, and the arts. The conquest of the

Levant by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and its absorption into Rome in the ﬁrst century BCE

resulted in Greco-Roman style becoming the public face of institutional culture and Greek vying with

Aramaic as the vernacular language. Rome, too, was transformed by the encounter, especially

through its conﬂicts with Judaism and the early followers of Christ, which had tumultuous

consequences for the Holy Land and the Western world.

Getty Scholars

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Ana Lucia Araujo is professor of history at Howard University, Washington, DC. Her research focuses

on Atlantic world history, slavery, and material culture.

The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (January–June)

Lamia Balafrej is associate professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her

research focuses on Islamic art history, medieval studies, the history of global slavery, and minority

and technology studies.

Slavery, Displacement, and the Making of Medieval Islamic Art (April–June)

Shantel Blakely is assistant professor of architecture at Rice University, Houston. Her research

focuses on the history and cultural context of architecture since World War II, with an emphasis on

biography.

Charles E. Fleming, Architect: Architecture and the Great Migration (September–December)

Cecilia Dal Zovo is a freelance researcher and archaeologist aﬃliated with the Institute of Heritage

Sciences, Spanish National Research Council. Her research focuses on mobility, long-distance

routes, travel, landscape, ritual, pastoralism, and historical photography in Mongolia and central

Eurasia.

Retracing the Northern Silk Road: Explorations, Travel Routes, and Long-Distance Mobility Across

Mongolia and Central Eurasia (January–June)

Owen Doonan (Consortium Scholar) is professor of art history at California State University,

Nor thridge. His research focuses on classical archaeology, landscape archaeology, postcolonial

theory, and the material culture of colonial systems.

The Milesian Colonial System in the Contexts of the Black Sea Iron Age (September–June)

Peyvand Firouzeh is lecturer in Islamic art in the Department of art history at the University of

Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on Islamic art history, arts of the Indian Ocean world, and

environmental art history.

Coco-de-Mer, Mysticism, and Material Histories of the Indian Ocean World (September–June)

Laura G. Gutiérrez is associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o at

the University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on contemporary art, Latinx visual and

performance art, race, gender, and migration critical studies.

Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art (September–December)

Megan O'Neil is assistant professor of art history at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Her research

focuses on Pre-Columbian and provenance studies.

Migrating Things: Shifts of Place and Perception in the 20th-Century Pre-Hispanic Art Market

(September–June)

Naomi Pitamber is assistant professor of ar t history at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti. Her

research focuses on Byzantine and Crusader art, architecture, and material culture.

Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss: The Recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan

Eras (September–June)

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Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan professor of Islamic architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, Cambridge. His research focuses on Islamic architecture, medieval urbanism, and

Mamluk history.

Building the Islamic Metropolis: How the Mamluks Shaped Cairo (Januar y–June)

Tatiana Reinoza is assistant professor of art history at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her

research focuses on contemporary art, Latinx art, and photography.

Retorno: Art & Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora (September–June)

Postdoctoral Fellows

Megan Boomer is an independent scholar. Her research focuses on medieval art and architecture

and crusader art.

Reconstructing the Holy Land (September–June)

Alexander Brey is assistant professor in the Department of Art at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

His research focuses on early Islamic art and architecture.

The Caliph's Prey: Hunting, Migration, and Art in the Umayyad Empire (September–June)

Abigail Lapin Dardashti is assistant professor of ar t history and visual studies at the University of

California, Irvine. Her research examines modern and contemporary Latin American art, Caribbean

ar t, Latino/a/x art, and African Diasporic art in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Itinerant Modernism: Politics and the International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Art (September–June)

Nicole Oest is instructor of art history at the City College of San Francisco, California. Her research

focuses on the history of photography and history of modern art and architecture.

Los Angeles and the Business of Photography (September–June)

GRI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellows

Jordan Reznick is visiting faculty at Bennington College, Vermont. Their research focuses on the

history of photography, settler colonialism, and Indigenous ecological science.

Landing the Camera: How Indigenous Ecologies Shaped Photographic Technologies in the West

(September–June)

Lindsay Wells is the Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los

Angeles. Her research focuses on 19th-century British art.

Evergreen Empire: The Horticultural Politics of British Painting, 1848–1910 (September–June)

Predoctoral Fellows

Rebecca Giordano is a PhD candidate in the Department of history of Art and Architecture at the

University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on African American art, Mexican

muralism, and modern art of the Americas.

Muralism, Cultural Anthropology, and Racial Identity in US Black Art, 1936–1955 (September–June)

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Guest Scholars

Felipe Baeza (Artist in Residence) (b. 1987, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a visual artist who lives and

works in Brooklyn, NY. Baeza's practice is equal parts confrontation of violent pasts and tribute to

people whose sense of personhood is constantly litigated and deﬁned by those in power. His

"fugitive bodies," created over densely layered paintings, appear in different states of becoming and

at times are even abstracted to the point of invisibility. Baeza's recent exhibitions include The Milk of

Unruly VisDreams, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice (2022); Yesterday we said tomorrow, Prospect 5,

New Orleans (2021); Unruly Suspension, Maureen Paley, London (2021); and Desert X, Palm Springs

(2020). Baeza received a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale University.

Unruly Forms (September–June)

Baltazar Brito Guadarrama is director of the National Library of Anthropology and History in Mexico

City, Mexico. His research focuses on codices and New Spanish history.

Analysis of the Huexotzingo Codices (September–December)

Thomas Kirchner is director at the German Center for art history, Paris, France. His research focuses

on art history, history, and philosophy.

Migration and the Making of a National Art (November–June)

Yulia Mylnikova is an independent scholar. She specializes in Chinese history, art history, culture,

and society.

The Tanguts: Searching for a Lost Civilization on the Silk Road (September–June)

Connecting Art Histories Scholars

Natalia Majluf is an independent scholar based in Lima, Peru. Her research focuses on Latin

American art.

Revolutionary Circuits: Towards a Conceptual History of Latin American Material Culture, 1808–1830

(April–June)

Mirko Sardelić is research associate in the Department of Historical Research at the Croatian

Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, and honorary research fellow at the ARC Centre for the

History of Emotions at the University of Western Australia. His research focuses on the history of

emotions and cross-cultural exchange.

Renaissance Ships in the Mediterranean: Mobile Cross-Cultural Systems (January–June)

Museum Scholars

Mecka Baumeister is conservator in the Department of Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan

Museum of Art, New York. Her research focuses on conservation treatments and methods of

technical study. Host Department: Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation

Ebony Trade and Use: Investigations into an Early 17th-Century Cabinet on Stand from the

Metropolitan Museum (January–March)

George Bisacca is conservator emeritus in the Department of Painting Conservation at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His research focuses on the conservation of panel paintings

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and the advancement of treatment of works across the world.

Host Department: Painting Conservation

The History of the Conservation of Panel Painting Supports in Europe from the Mid-18th Century to the

Present (September–December)

Georgios Boudalis is head of book and paper conservation in the Department of Conservation at the

Museum of Byzantine Culture, Greece. His research focuses on the conservation of Byzantine

manuscripts and their historical binding structures.

Host Department: Paper Conservation

Book as Body, Tear as Trauma (September–December)

Margaret Morgan Grasselli is visiting senior scholar in the Depar tment of Drawings at Harvard Art

Museums, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on master drawings, particularly the French school.

Host Department: Drawings

The Art of Looking Closely: An Introductory Guide to the Study of Drawings (January–March)

Sefy Hendler is senior lecturer of art history at Tel Aviv University, Israel. His research concentrates

on 16th-century Italian art with a focus on Florentine painting and sculpture.

Host Department: Painting

"I'll grow ever wiser with my failure": A New Understanding of Renaissance Artistic Failures

(July–September)

Audrey Hudson is the Richard & Elizabeth Currie Chief of the Department of Education &

Programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on art education, K-12

critical pedagogies, programming, music, and the virtual experience.

Vir tual Programming for K-12 Students at the Art Gallery of Ontario: A Case Study of Impact During a

Pandemic (July–August)

Verena Lepper is curator in the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, Berlin State Museums,

Germany. Her research focuses on ancient Egypt and written texts on papyri.

Host Department: Antiquities

Migration and Diversity in Ancient Egypt (April–June)

Lori Pauli is curator in the Department of Photographs Collection at the National Gallery of Canada,

Ottawa. Her research focuses on the history of photography.

Host Department: Photographs

Oscar Gustaf Rejlander: Catalogue Raisonné (January–March)

Andreas Scholl is director of the Collection of Classical Antiquities for the Berlin State Museums,

Germany.

Host Department: Oﬃce of the Museum Director

Ancient Greek Relief Sculpture and Its Reception in European Art (June–August)

Getty Scholars for the AAAHI

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Bernida Webb-Binder is assistant professor of art history and curatorial studies in the Department of

Ar t and Visual Culture at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. Her research focuses on African

American art, Paciﬁc Islands art, and Black Paciﬁc Art.

Generative Blackness in African American and Paciﬁc Art (September–June)

Getty Villa Scholars

Julien Chanteau is an archaeologist at the Louvre Museum, Paris. His research focuses on the

archaeology and history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.

The First Results of the Newly Discovered Middle Bronze Age Necropolis in Byblos (January–March)

Ahmed El Ferjaoui is a researcher and teaching staff at the National Heritage Institute, Tunisia. His

research focuses on Phoenician and Punic studies, as well as Libyan antiquities.

A New Temple in Zama Regia (Tunisia): Identiﬁcation of Its Typology and Deity before Its

Romanization (January–March)

Giuseppe Garbati is a researcher in the Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC) at the Italian National

Research Council (CNR), Italy. His research focuses on Phoenician and Punic archeology, the history

of the ancient Mediterranean, ancient religion, and cultural identity.

Gods and Culture: Forms of Social Expression through the Cults and Divine Morphologies in

Phoenician Context (April–June)

Mireia López-Bertran is associate professor in the Department of Art History at the University of

Valencia, Spain. Her research focuses on Phoenician and Punic sites of the ancient Mediterranean,

with interests in embodiment, rituals, and gender.

Phoenician Artworks and Sensoriality (April–June)

José Luis López-Castro is professor of ancient history at the Universidad of Almería, Spain. His

research addresses the globalization of the Mediterranean basin in the early 1st millennium BCE.

The Origins and Development of Phoenician Colonization in the West (January–March)

Eleftheria Pappa is an independent scholar aﬃliated with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,

New Jersey. Her research focuses on the archaeology of the Iron Age Mediterranean and Near East.

Expor ting Cultural Landscapes from the Near East to the Atlantic: The Role of the Phoenician

Sanctuaries Overseas and the Greek-Phoenician Syncretism of Cults (September–December)

2021-2022

The Fragment

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The 2021/2022 academic year at Getty Research Institute will continue the theme of the fragment.

Issues regarding the fragment have been present since the beginning of art history and archaeology.

Many objects of study survive in physically fragmented forms, and any object, artwork, or structure

may be conceived of as a fragment of a broader cultural context.

As such, fragments catalyze the investigative process of scholarship and the fundamental acts of

the historian: conservation, reconstruction, and interpretation. The evolution of an object—its

material and semiotic changes across time, space, and cultures—can offer insights into the ethics

and technologies of restoration, tastes for incompleteness or completeness, politics of collection

and display, and production of art historical knowledge.

While the fragment has been described as the central metaphor of modernity and the paradigmatic

sign of a contemporary worldview, its history as a trope runs much deeper. Cultures of the fragment

have ﬂourished throughout history under such guises as the reuse of architectural parts and the cult

of relics, the physical and conceptual image-breakings of iconoclasm, and the aesthetics of repair.

Fragmentation can occur through artistic processes, acts of destruction, or forces of nature. It can

be willful, accidental, or inevitable, but it is necessarily transformative.