The Smithsonian American Art Museum announces the appointment of 20 new fellows for the 2013–2014 academic year. The museum’s program grants awards for scholars and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior, predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships.

The 2013–2014 museum fellows are:

• Julia Bailey—Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, University College London; "After the New Deal: American Artists and Soviet Friendship in the Early Cold War"

• Im Chan—Postgraduate Conservation Fellow, Independent Conservator; "The Materials, Techniques, and Conservation Treatment of William H. Johnson’s Works on Paper"

• William Coleman—Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley; "Thomas Cole's Buildings: Architecture in Painting and Practice in the Early Republic"

• Erin Corrales-Diaz—Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; "Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861-1915"

• Melissa Dabakis—Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art, Kenyon College; "A Cultural History of Italo-American Relations, 1760-1900"

• Carl Fuldner—Predoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago; "Evolving Photography: Naturalism and American Pictorialism, 1890-1917"

• Jessica Horton—Postdoctoral Fellow, Independent Scholar; "Diplomatic Choreographies: The Travels of Native American Dance Paintings during the Cold War"

• Wendy Katz—Senior Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; "The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-61"

• Dimitrios Latsis—CIC-Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow (joint with National Museum of American History), University of Iowa; "Nature, Nation, Narrative: The Discourse of Landscape in Pre-WWII American Cinema"

• Joe Madura—Predoctoral Fellow, Emory University; "Revising Minimal Art in the AIDS Crisis, 1984-98"

• Fabiola Martínez-Rodríguez—Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art, St. Louis University, Madrid; "The Mexican Connection: Shaping American Modernism in New York"

• Morgan Nau—Postgraduate Conservation Fellow, Independent Conservator; "Identification and Removal of Undesirable Museum-Applied Coatings on Plaster Sculpture"

• Jennifer Quick—Phillip and Patricia Frost Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University; "The Dynamics of Deskilling: Ed Ruscha 1956-70"

• Leslie Reinhardt—Senior Fellow (joint with National Portrait Gallery), Independent Scholar; "Copley’s Death of Major Peirson"

• Anne Ronan—Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, Stanford University; "Beauty and the Bestiary: Animal Art and Humane Thought in the Gilded Age"

• Xiao Situ—Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Yale University; "Emily Dickinson’s Window Culture, 1830-86"

• Luis Vargas-Santiago—Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, University of Texas at Austin; "The Diaspora of Emiliano Zapata: From the Mexican Revolution to the American Imagination"

• Emily Warner—Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania; "Crafting the Abstract Environment: The Abstract Mural in New York, 1935-60"

• Sarah Warren—James Renwick Senior Fellow in American Craft, Purchase College, State University of New York; "Craft between Modernism and Counterculture: Rhinebeck and the Studio Craft Movement"

• Clay Zuba—Predoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware; "Red, White, and White: Native Americans, Britons, and American Imperial Identity, 1676-1861"

Abstracts for each fellow's project can be accessed online at www.AmericanArt.si.edu/research/opportunity/fellows/2013/.

Since 1970, the museum has hosted more than 400 scholars who now occupy positions in academic and cultural institutions across the United States. Fellowship opportunities include the Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowships for the cross-cultural study of art of the United States; the Joe and Wanda Corn Fellowship for research that spans American art and American history; the Patricia and Phillip Frost Fellowship for research in American art and visual culture; the Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for the study of the traditions of American art; the Douglass Foundation Fellowship; the Joshua C. Taylor Fellowship; and the James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft. The museum also hosts fellows supported by the Smithsonian's general fellowship fund. For information about museum fellowships, call (202) 633-8353 or email [log in to unmask] The deadline for applications is Jan. 15, 2014.