The Smithsonian American Art Museum announces the appointment of twenty new fellows 
for the 2006-2007 academic year. The museum's program grants three- to twelve-month
awards for scholars and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior,
predoctoral, and postdoctoral fellowships. The deadline for applications each year
is January 1; visit www.americanart.si.edu/education for more information.

Jean-Philippe Antoine, Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow, Universite
Jean Moulin-Lyon 3
"Invention, Imitation, and Reproduction in the Works of Samuel Morse"

Heidi Applegate, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
"Staging Modernism at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair" 

Sarah Blackwood, Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
"Portraiture: Representing Interiority in American Culture, 1850-1920"

Lauren Brown, Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
"WPA to NEA: Public Opinions of Federal Arts Funding"

Luciano Cheles, Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow, Universite de 
Poitiers
"Piero della Francesca and America (1900-1960)"

Michael De Baca, Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
"Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture"

Julia Dolan, Sara Roby Predoctoral Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Realism,
Boston University
"'I Will Take You into the Heart of Modern Industry': Lewis Hine's Photographic
Interpretation of the Machine Age" 

Marie Frank, James Renwick Postdoctoral Fellow in American Craft, University of 
Massachusetts, Lowell
"Denman Ross and American Formalist Aesthetics in the Early Twentieth Century"

Daniel Haxall, Predoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University
"Politics, Form, and Identity in Abstract Expressionist Collage"

Kimberly Hyde, James Renwick Predoctoral Fellow in American Craft, Case Western 
Reserve University
"Louis C. Tiffany and the Business of Art"

Laura Katzman, Senior Fellow, Randolph-Macon Woman's College
"Picturing Puerto Rico: American Photographs and the Making of a Modern Commonwealth"

Michael Komanecky, Senior Fellow, Independent Scholar
"New Spanish Missions in the American Imagination"

Anna Marley, Predoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware 
"Rooms with a View: The Topographic Landscape in the American Home, 1780-1820"

Laura Groves Napolitano, Sara Roby Predoctoral Fellow in Twentieth-Century American
Realism, University of Maryland 
"Longing and Loss in Lilly Martin Spencer's Images of Children" 

Sarah Powers, Predoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware
"Images of Tension: City and Country in the Work of Charles Sheeler, Edward
Hopper, and Thomas Hart Benton" 

Katherine Rieder, Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
"'The Remainder of Our Effects We Must Leave Behind': American Loyalists and
the Meaning of Things, 1765-1800"

Sascha Scott, Predoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University
"Modernism on the Move: New York-New Mexico Artistic Exchange, 1914-1942"

Emily Taub, Predoctoral Fellow, Emory University 
"On Site-Specificity: A Genealogy"

Leslie Urena, Predoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
"Lewis Hine at Ellis Island: The Photography of Immigration and Race, 1904-1926"

Midori Yamamura, Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow, City University
of New York Graduate Center
"Yayoi Kusama: Biography and Cultural Confrontation, 1945-1968"


Other Smithsonian fellowship appointments in American art include:

Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, Latino Studies Senior Fellow (at the National Museum of American
History), University of California, Berkeley
"Mundillo: The Handiwork of Revival and Transformation in Puerto Rico"

Jonathan Katz, Senior Fellow (Archives of American Art), Yale University
"The Silent Camp: Sexuality and Resistance in Cold War American Art and Culture"

Katherine Roeder, Predoctoral Fellow (National Portrait Gallery), University 
of Delaware
"'Cultivating Dreamfulness': Fantasy, Longing, and Commodity Culture in the
Work of Winsor McCay" 

Maia Toteva, Predoctoral Fellow (National Portrait Gallery), University of Texas
at Austin
"Language Strategies and Ideas in the Art of American Conceptual and Post-Conceptual
Artists"

Megan Walsh, Graduate Student Fellow (National Portrait Gallery), Temple University
"Depicting American Identity: Deception, Portraiture, and Charles Willson Peale"

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