List of Former Fellows
2015 | Catherine Allen | The George Washington University | The inner life of things: Animism and Andean Aesthetics |
2014 | Joseph Adande | Universite' d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin | Danhome' Applique' Cloth |
2014 | Kodzo Gavua | University of Ghana, Legon | Ghanaian religion and materialism and culture heritage. |
2013 | Denise Arnold | Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara (ILCA) | The science of weaving in the Andes: structures and techniques of warp-faced cloth. |
Susan Gagliardi | The City College of The City University of New York | Display and Anti-Display: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural "Frontier". | |
2012 | Anastasia Grib | The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia | The Qur'anic Board in West and North Africa |
Andrew Hamilton | Harvard University | Scale in the Pre-Columbian Andean World | |
2011 | Gitti Salami | Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon | Visual Culture of Yakurr society in the Middle Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria |
2010 | Elizabeth Cory-Pearce | Australian National University, Canberra | Modernity's Guises: Maori 'Gift Exchange' and Imperial and Colonial Relations |
Paolo Fortis | University of St Andrews | Images, Designs and Ontology among the Kuna. An Ethnographic Theory of Visual Art | |
Henry Drewal | University of Wisconsin- Madison | Arts of Yoruba speaking people in West Africa using sensiotics |
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2009 |
Kevin Lane | Manchester University | Engineered Worlds: Community, Technology and Landscape in the Ancient Andes |
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Chris Beekman | University of Colorado Denver | Archaeology of Jalisco, western Mexico |
2008 | Bodil Olesen | Aarhus University and UCL | Contemporary Malian bogolan, or mud cloth |
Catarina Krizancic | Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago | The 'demis' of Tahiti - a study of Tahitian aristocracy | |
2007 | Carol Mayer | Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver | Frank Burnett Collection of early 20th century Pacific Art and Photography. |
Penny Dransart | University of Wales, Lampeter | Colour experience in the Andes & Europe | |
2006 | Claudia Gross | University of Auckland | Garden Aesthetics & Mimesis in Upper Awara, Papua New Guinea |
Malika Kraamer | SOAS & National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden | Hand-woven textile histories in southern Ghana and Togo | |
2005 | Julie Hollowell | Indiana University | Archaeological materials and collections from the Bering Strait |
Jean Borgatti | Clark University | Masquerades & aesthetics of the Okpella, Southern Nigeria | |
2004 | Michael Jehle | New Bedford Whaling Museum | Sperm whale ivory in Polynesian ornamentation |
James Fitzsimmons | University of South Dakota | Death and ritual among the ancient Maya | |
Jeffrey Blomster | George Washington University | Olmec and regional styles: Early Formative art and iconography in Mesoamerica | |
Christopher Donnan | University of California at Los Angeles | Early Moche developments at Dos Cabezas, North Coast, Peru | |
2003 | Virginia Miller | University of Illinois, Chicago | Art and Architecture at Chichen Itza |
Philip Peek | Drew University | Representations of the communal self in African arts | |
2002 | Alison Dundon | Australian National University | Carving and Christianity among the Gogodala |
Rhys Richards | Independent scholar | Austral Island ceremonial paddles | |
2001 | Esther Pasztory | Columbia University | Travels and art of Jean-Frederic Waldeck |
Germain Loumpet | University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon | Art and material culture: semantic redeployments and strategies for identification | |
2000 | Wilfried Van Damme | Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands | The philosophy of ewa, beauty, in Yoruba culture, Nigeria |
Goran Aijmer | University of Goteborg | Iconic codes and aesthetics | |
1999 | Claude Chapdelaine | University of Montreal | The Moche state: power, ideology and urbanism |
Ross Hassig | University of Oklahoma | Aztec thought and culture | |
1998 | Marshall Sahlins | University of Chicago | Fijian history and culture |
Dana Rush | University of Iowa | Vodun arts of West Africa, particularly Benin | |
1997 | John Agberia | University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria | Ladi Kwali pottery: the Abuja Experiment in Nigeria |
Laurie Beckwith | University of Calgary | Late Formative period ceramics of Ecuador | |
1996 | Richard Eves | Australian National University, Canberra | Dance, magic and power, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea |
Iris Gareis | Institut fur Volkerkunde und Afrikanistik, Munich | Representations of good and evil in Europe and America | |
1995 | Sarah Brett-Smith | Rutgers University | Bamana women's cloths, Mali, West Africa |
Sandra Klopper | University of Cape Town | Zulu and southern African art and material culture | |
1994 | Jack Goody | University of Cambridge | Representation and cognitive contradictions |
Jerry Moore | California State University, Dominguez Hills | Pre-Columbian plazas and the archaeology of constructed space | |
Michael Gunn | Northern Territory Museum, Australia | Malagan of Tabar, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea | |
1993 | Barbara Saunders | University of Utrecht | Northwest Coast, Canada; colour theory |