The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced the appointment of eighteen new fellows for the 2010–2011 academic year. The museum’s program grants awards for scholars and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior, predoctoral, and postdoctoral fellowships. Since 1970, the museum has hosted more than 360 fellows who now occupy positions in academic and cultural institutions across the United States.

The 2010–2011 museum fellows are:

• Prudence Ahrens—Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Queensland; “Travelling modernisms: American Art and the South Pacific”

• Lacey Baradel—Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania; “Destabilizing American Regional Identities: the Slippery Signification and Interpretation of Place in the Visual Arts”

• Maggie Cao—Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University; “Landscape Interrupted: the Emergence of Zoological Agency in Nineteenth-Century American Art”

• Bridget Gilman—Sara Roby Predoctoral Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Realism, University of Michigan; “Re-envisioning Everyday Spaces: Photorealist Painting in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1960–Present”

• Camara Holloway—Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware; “Shadowing the Light: Race, Photography, and the modernist Persona in America”

• Elizabeth Lee—Senior Fellow, Dickinson College; “Therapeutic Culture: Health and Illness in Turn-of-the-Century American Art”

• Sara Beth Levavy—Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford University; “Immediate Mediation: A Narrative of the Newsreel and the Film”

• Elizabeth McGoey—Predoctoral Fellow, Indiana University; “Staging Modern Domesticity: Art and Constructed Interior Displays in America, 1925–40”

• Emily Moore—Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley; “Indian Art of the New Deal, Indians in New Deal Art”

• Márton Orosz—Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; “György Kepes: His Period and Contacts within the United States in the Post–War Art”

• Gisela Parak—Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich; “Landscape Narratives: German and American Photographs in Comparison, 1850–1933”

• Austin Porter—Sara Roby Predoctoral Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Realism, Boston University; “Paper Bullets: the Visual Culture of American World War II Print Propaganda”

• Breanne Robertson—Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland; “Forging a New World Nationalism: Ancient Mexico in United States Art and Visual Culture, 1933–45”

• Susanne Scharf—Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; “Art with an Agenda: Hugo Reisinger as Promoter of Transnational Cultural Exchange in the Early Twentieth Century”

• Hélène Valance—Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow, Université Paris VII- Diderot; “Nocturnes in American Painting, 1890–1917”

• Jennifer Way—Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow, University of North Texas; “Politics of the Handmade: the Significance of Southeast Asian Handicraft for America, circa 1955–61”

• Amy Werbel—Senior Fellow, Saint Michael’s College; “American Visual Culture during the Reign of Anthony Comstock, 1872–1915”

• Mary Wood—Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware; “Benjamin West’s Nelson Memorial: Neoclassical Sculpture and the Atlantic World circa 1812”

Other Smithsonian appointments in American art include:

• Meredith Brown—Predoctoral Fellow (at Archives of American Art), the Courtauld Institute of Art; “Feminist Spaces, Politics, and Programs: the Impact of A.I.R. Gallery on the Feminist and Alternative Art Movements in 1970s America”

• Mazie Harris—Predoctoral Fellow (at National Portrait Gallery), Brown University; “Photographic Portraiture and Patents in New York between 1850–80”

• Kim Sels—Predoctoral Fellow (at National Portrait Gallery), Rutgers University; “Assembling Identity: the Object-Portrait in American Art, 1917–27”