Spotlight on Current Research

Scientists and Conservators Reinvent Formula for Vital Art Conservation Material
June 4, 2025Getty, New York University (NYU) and The University of Akron (UA) announced today the development of a safer and more sustainable substitute for BEVA 371, an adhesive used by conservators worldwide in the structural treatment of paintings on canvas and related artistic media. This breakthrough is the result of a major conservation science research grant funded by Getty.
Read morePhD student Kinaya Hassane traveled to the Comoros, Tanzania, & Kenya this summer for dissertation research, with generous support from the Joan & Stanford Alexander Dissertation Award from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Faculty
Prita Meier’s latest book, The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast, is a finalist for both the African Studies Association’s 2025 Best Book Prize and the 2024 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize for East African Studies.
Dipti Khera is a Scholar in Residence at The Power Institute.
Edward J. Sullivan curated the first institutional survey of the Colombian artist Fanny Sanín in New York, at the Americas Society.
Meredith Martin receives the Iris Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar.
Finbarr Barry Flood's co-authored book "Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms" received the 2024 ICMA Annual Book Prize by the International Center of Medieval Art.
Alexander Nagel receives a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Joan Kee is the winner of the 2024 Robert Motherwell Book Award for The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity
Students
Phoebe Herland curated Rauschenberg exhibition opening September 9 at the Grey Art Museum.
Jinyi Liu receives a 2025/2026 Getty Predoctoral Fellowship
Shannah Rose was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Scarlett Strauss received a Fulbright Open Study/Research Award to pursue research in Italy for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Summer Sloane-Britt is Assistant Professor of Art History at Occidental College.
Shiro Burnette named to the 2025 cohort of the Center For Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice.
Saarthak Singh was selected as the recipient of the 2024 UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize.
Alumni
Fatima Quraishi Joins Princeton's Department of Art & Architecture as Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology.
Blake Oetting is a Postdoctoral Fellow between the Art History and Rhetoric departments at UC Berkeley and Curatorial Fellow at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Rebecca Lowery joined the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University as the new curator of exhibitions
Aimé Iglesias Lukin received the 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Curatorial Work.
Paulina Pobocha was named Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.