The proximity of the University to Washington, D.C. and Baltimore allows many graduate students in the department to take advantage of the Museum Fellowship program and gain curatorial and museum research experience. Currently four Fellowships are offered per academic year, although in some cases students may receive a half year of support for a special project. Students are encouraged to apply for the Museum Fellowship, particularly if local collections contain works related to thesis or dissertation topics or they have a strong interest in working with local curators.

Museum Fellows work directly under the supervision of a curator or other museum professional on a research project which suits their interests, skills, and the host institution's projects. Many Museum Fellows have worked on exhibition research, collection research, and educational programs about an exhibit during their fellowships. In several instances, museum fellowships have led to positions as curators in the institution where the student was working. A number of graduates from Maryland's program in art history and archaeology are now working as museum professionals. Locations where recent Museum Fellows have worked include:

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2008 - 2009

Angela George
American and British Painting
National Gallery of Art

Asma Naeem
American and British Painting
National Gallery of Art

Lara Yeager
Northern Baroque Painting
National Gallery of Art

Jingmin Zhang
Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art
Smithsonian Museum

2007 - 2008  

Brighton Hanson
Northern Baroque Painting
National Gallery of Art  

Breanne Robertson
American and British Painting
National Gallery of Art

Tosha Grantham
Walters Art Museum

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2006 - 2007  
Rachel Wadsworth
National Gallery of Art

Tosha Grantham
Walters Art Museum  

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2005 - 2006  

Sarah Cantor
Old Master Drawings  
National Gallery of Art

Laura Napolitano
Smithsonian American Art Museum  

Virginia Treanor
Northern Baroque Painting
National Gallery of Art

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2004-2005  

Jung-Sil Lee
Corcoran Museum of Art

Li Tang
Freer Gallery of Art

Flora Vilches
Pre-Columbian Studies
Dumbarton Oaks

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2003-2004

Esther Adler
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Sohee Kim
Northern Baroque Painting
National Gallery of Art

Ann Wagner
Modern and Contemporary Art
National Gallery of Art

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2002-2003

Esther Adler
"Ana Mendieta, Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985"
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Jung-Sil Lee
19th Century European Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Margaret Morse
Old Master Drawings
National Gallery of Art

Akela Reason
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Irina Stotland
The Phillips Collection

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2000-2001

Colette Crossman
National Museum for Women in the Arts

Monika Hirchbichler
Byzantine Collection
Dumbarton Oaks

Seojeong Shin
Asian Art
Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution

Christopher Slogar
Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow
National Museum of African Art

Kimberlee Staking
Education Department
National Museum of Women in the Arts

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1998-1999

Phoebe Avery
Department of Northern Baroque Painting
National Gallery of Art

Wendy Grossman
"Object and Image: Re-Presenting African Art Through the Modernist Camera Lens"
Eliot Elisofon Archives, National Museum of African Art

Pawel Kozielski
New Installation of the Permanent Collection of African Art
Department of Arts of Africa, the Americas & Oceania
The Baltimore Museum of Art

Christopher Slogar
Guy C. McElroy Fellow
National Museum of African Art

Don Myers
Department of Sculpture
National Gallery of Art

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1997-1998

Renee Ater
"Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance"
Corcoran Museum of Art

Billie Follensbee
Pre-Columbian Collection
Dumbarton Oaks

Michelle Kloss
The National Portrait Gallery

Lee Vedder "American Impressionism and Realism:
The Margaret and Raymond J. Horowitz Collection"
Department of American and British Painting
National Gallery of Art

Chris Slogar
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

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1996-1997

Mary Jo Aagerstoun
Gomez Pe¿a Exhibition
Corcoran Museum of Art

Yelena Harbick
Walters Art Gallery

Andrea Van Houtven
National Gallery of Art

Jami Rutherford
Library of Congress

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1995-1996

Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Department of Northern Baroque Painting
National Gallery of Art

Elissa Auther
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Lauree Sails
Walters Art Gallery

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1994-1995

Letty Bonnell
Natural History Museum

Maria Day
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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1993-1994

Christa Clarke
National Museum of African Art

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1992-1993

Quint Gregory
"Johannes Vermeer"
National Gallery of Art

Martha Bari
Department of American and British Paintings
National Gallery of Art

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1991-1992

Julie Dabbs
Department of Prints and Drawings
National Gallery of Art

Richard Raymond
National Gallery of Art

Nina Gwatkin
"Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery"
Walters Art Gallery

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1990-1991

Cindy Mills
National Museum of American Art

Christa Clarke
National Museum of African Art

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1989-1990

Lee Vedder
Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress

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THE ART GALLERY

The Deparment of Art History and Archaeology works closely with The Art Gallery on a variety of exhibitions and projects . Each year, one graduate assistantship is assigned to The Art Gallery. In this position, the student is afforded the opportunity to work on all aspects of gallery operation, from exhibition conception and installation, writing and editing exhibition catalogues, administrative assistance, work on the permanent collection, and participation in public forums, including the annual symposium organized in conjunction with the winter/spring exhibition.

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Projects in which students have contributed over the past several years include:

"Possible Futures: The Frank Collection of Science Fiction"
Mary Jo Aagerstoun
Maria Day
Liz Tobey

"Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection"
Adrienne Childs
Tuliza Fleming
Jennifer Strychasz

"Echoes: The Art of David C. Driskell"
Adrienne Childs

"Reframing Andy Warhol: Constructing American Myths, Heroes, and Cultural Icons"
Wendy Grossman

"Terra Firma"
Wendy Grossman
Mary Jo Aagerstoun
Renee Ater
Martha Bari
Margaret Wilkerson

"Digital Village"
Mary Jo Aagerstoun
Michelle Kloss

"The Helen D. Ling Collection of Chinese Ceramics"
Martha Bari

"Significant Losses: Artists Who Have Died From Aids"
Martha Bari

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