GRI Guest Scholars
Matthew Hunter is associate professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Canada. His research covers the visual art and architecture of the long 18th century, with particular emphasis on their interactions with science and technology.
Anglo-American Art: Moments in the History of Insurance
(April–May)
Emiliano Meglar Tísoc is a full-time researcher titular C at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City, Mexico. His research focuses on the archaeology of the Aztec Templo Mayor and archaeometric studies of lapidary objects from ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and the American Southwest.
Vanished Tenochcan Crafts: The Last Master Jewelers from Mexico-Tenochtitlan Before the Spanish Conquest
(September–December)
Connecting Art Histories Scholars
Igor Simões is a postdoctoral fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research focuses on the intersections of Afro-Brazilian art history and the role of Brazil in the international debate about African diasporic art history.
Where are black Brazilian artists in the Afro-diasporic art history?
(September–December)
Gitanjali Pyndiah is art history researcher in the Centre for Research on Slavery and Indenture at the University of Mauritius. Her research interests include natural history, visual, sonic, and language worlds of the Indian Ocean.
OūwKi the Unwinged Biped for dodo: outside taxonomy and monstrosity
(January–March)
Museum Guest Scholars
Vincent Blanchard is deputy director of Oriental antiquities at the Louvre Museum, France. His research centers on the art and culture of the Hittites and Neo-Hittites during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
From one millennium to the next: Syrian-Anatolian monumental sculpture in all its forms
(July–September)
Francien Bossema is the Migelien Gerritzen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands. Her work is a combination of tailoring X-ray imaging techniques for scanning cultural heritage objects and using these techniques to investigate case studies.
X-Ray Dendrochronology: Novel Software for Practical Applications
(July–September)
Alisha Chipman is an independent scholar and photograph conservator. She specializes in the preservation, conservation, and technical history of photographic materials and photomechanical prints.
Photomechanical Prints: Technical History, Identification, and Care
(September–December)
Nicole Cromartie is director of learning and engagement at the Clyfford Still Museum. Her research is focused on the evaluation of early learning in museum settings, sharing curatorial authority with young children, and the benefits of museum experiences for young visitors from birth to 14 months.
Building a Community of Research and Practice on Young Children and Art Museums
(April–June)
Christiane Ernek-van der Goes is associate researcher in the Department of Decorative Arts at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany. She specializes in German and French decorative arts in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Not All That Glitters Is Gold – ‘La Mise en Couleur d’Or.’
(April–June)
David Garcia Cueto is head curator of the Department of Italian and French Paintings (until 1800) at the Prado Museum, Spain. His scholarly interests are focused on the relationship between Italy and Spain in the early modern period and the history of patronage and collecting at the court of the Hapsburgs.
Guido Reni reconsidered in light of three recent exhibitions: results, afterthoughts, and new paths
(July–September)
Danielle Jackson is an independent scholar, critic, and writer. Her work is focused on photographic archives of industry and deindustrialized places.
The Visual History of De-industrialization
(September–December)
Lia Markey is director for the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library. Her research examines cross-cultural exchange between Italy and the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries, collecting history, cartography, and early modern prints and drawings.
Binding the Globe: Race and Empire in Luxury Atlases from the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
(July–September)
Uwe Peltz is conservator for archaeological artworks in the Collection of Classical Antiquities, National Museums in Berlin, Germany. His expertise is in ancient bronzes, with a current focus on the history of conservation and the technology to produce them in the past, especially in Archaic Samos.
The archaic Samos: Center for ancient Mediterranean art technology transfer in bronze casting and its continued development.
(September–December)
Getty Villa Scholars—Theme: Anatolia
Murat Akar is associate professor of Anatolian and Near Eastern archaeology at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey and director of Tell Atchana, Alalakh Excavations (Hatay, Turkey). His research areas include architecture, memory, and landscape studies with a focus on the second millennium BC.
Towards Resilient Heritage: Post-Earthquake Response at the Bronze Age Capital City of Tell Atchana, Alalakh (Hatay, Türkiye)
(September–December)
Michele Bianconi is departmental lecturer in classical philology and linguistics in the Faculty of Classics and Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, UK. His field of research, which is part of Indo-European Studies, lies at the intersection between classics, linguistics, and Near Eastern studies.
Greek and the Anatolian Languages: side-by-side across millennia
(January–March)
Deborah Carlson is professor in the Nautical Archaeology Program in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. Her areas of research include the archaeological excavation of Greek and Roman shipwrecks, as well as texts dealing with ancient Mediterranean seafaring.
Maritime Trade and Economy of Classical Ionia
(April–June)
Jan Paul Crielaard is professor of pre- and protohistorical archaeology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. He specializes in the Greek Early Iron Age and the Archaic Mediterranean, including social aspects of mobility and connectivity, the construction of identities, early Greek cult and cult places, and the material world of the Homeric epics.
Ionians, Lydians and Carians: Cultural Interactions and Cultural Transfer, ca. 900-500 BC
(January–March)
Lorenzo D’Alfonso is professor of archaeology and history of ancient Western Asia in the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and also in the Department of Humanities at the University of Pavia, Italy. His research investigates the political and social archaeology of Syria and Anatolia and cross-cultural contacts with groups and political entities in the ancient Mediterranean, ca. 1500-500 BCE.
New Phrygian inscribed ceramics from Niğde Kınık Höyük, South-Central Anatolia, and the question of adoption, use and spread of alphabetic writing in Anatolia during the Middle Iron Age
(January–March)
Erkan Dündar is associate professor in the Department of Archaeology at Akdeniz University, Turkey. His study focuses on pottery, commercial amphorae, and stamps, as well as late Classical to early Hellenistic defense and domestic architecture in ancient Lycia.
Patara and Lycia in the Early Hellenistic Period: A Place in-between in a Time of Transition
(January–March)
Alan Greaves is reader in archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, UK. He concentrates on the archaeology of the Archaic Period (c. 850-500 BCE).
Oracles in Archaic Western Anatolia
(April–June)
R. Gül Gürtekin Demir is professor in the Department of Archaeology at Ege University, Turkey. Her research investigates cultural and historical relationships between Lydia and the rest of the ancient Mediterranean world during the Iron Age.
Multidirectional Look at Lydians and Ionians: Perceptions and Misperceptions in a Cultural and Political Environment
(September–December)
Jeremy LaBuff is associate professor in the History Department at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. His research examines the Indigenous communities of Anatolia during the Hellenistic Period.
Indigenous Anatolia in the Hellenistic Period
(April–June)
Naoise Mac Sweeney is professor of classical archaeology at the University of Vienna, Austria. She specializes in the history and archaeology of the Iron Age to Classical periods.
Picturing Life in Death: The Clazomenian Sarcophagi
(April–June)
Geoffrey Summers is lecturer at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes, Mauritius. His research covers the archaeology of the ancient Near East with an emphasis on the later prehistory of Anatolia and the Southern Caucasus.
Middle Iron Age Urban Concepts, Architecture, and Sculpture in Phrygia, Lydia, and the Aegean
(September–December)
Serdar Yalcin is associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Macalester College. He specializes in the art and archaeology of ancient Western Asia and eastern Mediterranean, with a special focus on the Bronze and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia.
From Syria to Ephesos and Beyond: Exploring the Neo-Hittite Impact on the Orientalizing and Archaic Period Temples in Western Anatolia and Ionian Islands
(September–December)
Getty Conservation Institute Guest Scholars
Medhanie Andom is senior urban planner and director of the Asmara Heritage Project Office, Central Region Administration, Eritrea. His research focuses on the conservation and management of 20th-century heritage.
Developing Fiat Tagliero Conservation Management Plan Framework
(April–June)
Jigna Desai is professor in the Faculty of Architecture at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. Her field of research encompasses architecture and built heritage conservation.
'Unintentional Monuments', Addressing Challenges of Conserving Modern Heritage of South Asia
(April–June)
Cass Fino-Radin is the founder and lead conservator of Small Data Industries in New York. They specialize in time-based media art conservation, consulting, and software development.
A Field Survey of the State of Time-Based Media Conservation in the Contemporary Art World
(January–March)
Terry Little is adjunct senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. His research focuses on cultural heritage, archaeology, and conservation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Global Rock Art Conservation and Promotion: Challenges and Opportunities to Guide Initiatives and Institutions
(September–December)
Elena Lucchi is senior researcher at University of Pavia, Italy. Her research focuses on enhancing energy efficiency and promoting environmental sustainability and renewable energies in architectural heritage and protected landscapes.
@MARE Project: @ Modern Architecture & Renewable Energies
(January–March)
Camilla Mileto is professor in the Department of Architectural Composition at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. Her field of research includes architecture conservation, earthen architecture study and documentation, and traditional materials and techniques.
Earthen Architecture Conservation
(September–December)
Amanda Pagliarino is head of conservation and registration at Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Australia. Her research focuses on the modernization of cultural heritage loan protocols that recognize sustainability objectives and prioritize energy and resource efficient, environmentally conscious low-carbon emission practices.
RESPONSIVE EXCHANGE - Resetting loan protocols for equity and sustainability
(January–March)
Luiz Souza is professor in the Center of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His research concentrates on heritage and conservation science for preserving Brazil’s cultural heritage, emphasizing preventive conservation and material aspects of gilded wooden carvings.
GLEISE (PT-BR) - Gilded and Lacquered Surfaces in Europe (Portugal) and Brazil
(September–December)
Kararaina Te Ira is an independent scholar. Her research focuses on advancing cultural heritage conservation through the lens of Indigenous peoples’ perspectives, particularly her own Indigenous background as tāngata whenua ki Aotearoa (New Zealand Māori).
A Practitioner's Experience: Advancing Cultural Heritage Conservation through the Eyes of Indigenous Communities
(April–June)
Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares is professor in the Department of Architectural Composition at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. His area of study encompasses architectural conservation, tile vaulting, and vernacular architecture.
Tile Vaulting Conservation
(September–December)