Getty Research Institute Announce 2022/2023 Scholars
The Getty Research Institute welcomes this year’s scholars, who will be conducting research on the themes Art and Migration and The Levant and the Classical World during the 2022/2023 scholar year.
Migration has persisted as a powerful subject of art ever since 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. Considering the many ongoing migration crises throughout the world, this theme invites scholars to respond to the movement of people and artifacts in myriad ways.
For the third year, 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.
Additionally, two opportunities for nine-month residencies have been created under the Getty's African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI), a 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. 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.
Getty Scholars
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
University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses
on Islamic art history, medieval studies, history of global
slavery, minority and technology studies.
Slavery,
Displacement, and the Making of Medieval Islamic
Art
(April–June)
Shantel
Blakely is Assistant Professor of Architecture at
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her research
focuses on American architecture and the history of
architecture.
Charles E. Fleming, Architect: Architecture
and the Great
Migration
(September–December)
Cecilia
Dal Zovo is Researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias
del Patrimonio-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her research
focuses on Mongolian studies, travel literature,
long-distance mobility, and historical
photography.
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, Northridge. His research
focuses on classical archaeology, landscape archaeology,
post-colonial theory, and material culture of colonial
systems.
The Milesian Colonial System in the contexts of
the Black Sea Iron
Age
(September–June)
Laura G.
Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in the Department
of Mexican American and Latina/o at 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 Art History at
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Her
research focuses on Byzantine and Crusader art,
architecture, and material culture.
Replacing Byzantium:
Laskarid Urban Environments and the Landscape of Loss
(1204-1261)
(September–June)
Nasser
Rabbat is Aga Khan Professor of Islamic
Architecture at 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
(January–June)
Tatiana
Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at
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 Andrew W.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History
& Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. 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 Art History and
Visual Studies at University of California, Irvine. Her
research examines modern and contemporary Latin American
art, Caribbean art, 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 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 Lecturer of Art and Art History at San Jose
State University, California. Their research focuses on the
history of photography.
Landing the Camera: How
Indigenous Ecologies Shaped Photographic Technologies in the
West
(September–June)
Lindsay
Wells is Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow at
University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses
on nineteenth-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 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)
Guest Scholars
Felipe Baeza (Artist in
Residence) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
He incorporates painting and printmaking to examine how
memory, migration, and displacement work to create a state
of hybridity and fugitivity. His art practice aims to
imagine structures and possibilities for the
self-emancipation of the fugitive body that lives in and is
persistently subjected to hostile conditions. Recent
exhibitions include FELIPE BAEZA, Maureen Paley, United
Kingdom; 4 Artists, Fredericks & Freiser, New York;
Demolition WoManhood, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles; and No
Longer Yours, The Mistake Room/Anonymous Gallery, Mexico
City.
Unruly
Visions
(September–June)
Baltazar Brito
Guadaramma 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. His research focuses on art history,
history, and philosophy.
Migration and the Art Museum in
the 20th and 21st
century
(November–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. Her research focuses on 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. 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 the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His
research focuses on the conservation of panel paintings and
the advancement of the 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. 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
Department of Drawings at Harvard Art Museums, Harvard
University. 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)
Joseph (Sefy)
Hendler is Senior Lecturer of Art History at
University of Tel Aviv, Israel. His research focuses on
sixteenth century Italian and Florentine painting.
Host
Department: Painting
“I’ll grow ever wiser with my
failure”: a new understanding of Renaissance artistic
failures
(July–September)
Audrey
Hudson is Chief of the Department of Education
& Programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her
research focuses on virtual programming, movement, sound,
and the virtual experience.
Host Department: Museum
Education
Virtual 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
(September–December)
Lori Pauli
is Curator in the Department of Photographs
Collection at the National Gallery of Canada. 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.
Host
Department: Office of the Museum Director
Ancient Greek
Relief Sculpture and Its Reception in European
Art
(June-August)
Getty Scholars for the AAAHI
Meg Onli is an independent
scholar based in Los Angeles, California. Her research
focuses on the black experience, language, and construction
of power and space.
Revisiting the identity politics of
the 1990s through the
archives
(September–June)
Bernida
Webb-Binder is Assistant Professor of Art History
and Curatorial Studies in the Department of Art 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
Curator 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)
Giuseppe Garbati
is Researcher in the Institute of Heritage Science
(ISPC) at the Italian National Research Council (CNR),
Italy. His research focuses on Phoenician and Punic
archeology, 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)
Carolina
López-Ruiz is Professor of the History of
Religions at the University of Chicago, Divinity School,
Illinois. Her research focuses on archaic Greek literature,
classical mythology, Greek and Near Eastern interaction, and
colonization.
Decolonizing the Phoenicians: a short
monograph
project
(April–June)
Eleftheria
Pappa is an independent scholar affiliated with the
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, New
Jersey. Her research focuses on archaeology of the Iron Age
Mediterranean and the Near East.
Exporting 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)