Dr. Lisa Bauman served as a Smithsonian Journeys Expert last summer, leading programs in France and Normandy on Leonardo da Vinci, French Impressionism, and the rebuilding of Paris. She also co-led study abroad programs with Dr. Gregg to France in Summer 2025 and England in January 2026.
Dr. LaNitra Berger received an advanced contract from Wayne State University Press to co-write a history of Jewish refugee scholars at HBCUs with Dr. Laura Auketayeva. She is still working on her monograph about Jewish themes in Black art and recently gave a lecture at UC Irvine based on this project.
Dr. Robert DeCaroli was on research leave in Fall 2025 and published two articles: "Buddhist Borrowing: Cross-Sectarian Interactions in Early South Asian Art and Ritual" in Archives of Asian Art and "Making Room for the Buddha: The Rise of the Buddhist Image Cult at the Kānherī Caves" in Minding the Buddha's Business.
Dr. Heidi Gearhart presented research in Princeton, Washington, DC, and Leeds, UK. Her monograph Names to Remember: Medieval Artists in Word and Image, c. 700–1200 will be published by Penn State University Press in Spring 2026, and her edited volume A Cultural History of Craft in the Medieval Age by Bloomsbury in Summer 2026.
Dr. Christopher Gregg presented "Walking Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Edge of the Roman Empire" for the Smithsonian Resident Associates in September. In Spring 2026, he delivered three online lectures on recent archaeological work at
Pompeii for the 92nd Street Y. He also completed final edits for the publication of artifacts from the Roman Aqaba Project in Jordan.
Dr. Michele Greet was an Alisa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow (2024–2025) at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, where she worked on Abstraction in the Andes, 1950–1970. She curated Transatlantic Encounters at the Art Museum of the Americas, published on modern Brazilian art, and delivered seven invited lectures in the United States and Ecuador.
Dr. Angela Ho continued work on her book project examining exchanges between early modern Dutch and Chinese cultures. She presented at the Renaissance Society of America conference in March and is developing an article on a world map created by a Flemish Jesuit for the Qing emperor in 1674.
Dr. Heather McGuire collaborated with Jeff Kenney (Mason Exhibitions) on revisions to the 2026 Venice Biennale Study Abroad program, led by Kenney and Dr. LaNitra Berger. In Fall 2025, she conducted research at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, O'Keeffe's Abiquiú studio, and Ghost Ranch.
Dr. Deepthi Murali is on research leave in Spring 2026, focusing on publications related to her digital history project Connecting Threads. She recently published "Golden Birth: Materiality, Legitimation, and Sacral Kingship in Proto-Colonial South India" in Rethinking Empire (SAR Press, 2026).
Dr. Vanessa Schulman published an article in Victorian Studies in Fall 2025. During a Fall 2025 sabbatical, she worked on her next book project examining ecological themes in the work of the Ashcan School and situating urban realism within broader environmental and material contexts.
Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson led the Fall 2025 Curating an Exhibition course, culminating in The Mirage of Ancient Egypt. The exhibition examined Egyptomania and Orientalism in popular culture.