Congratulations to four of The Courtauld’s faculty on their recent fellowship appointments.
Professor Antony Eastmond, Acting Executive Dean and Deputy Director, and also the AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art, has been offered a Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Dumbarton Oaks is a Harvard University research institute, library, museum, and garden located in Washington, DC. The institution is the legacy of Robert and Mildred Bliss, collectors of art and patrons of learning in the humanities. The museum houses world-class collections of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, two areas of interest to the Blisses. Antony has taught at The Courtauld since 2004, and was Dean and Deputy Director from 2016-2020.
Professor Guido Rebecchini, Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art has been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship for 2025/2026. From 1 Sep 2025, he will be working on a project on the Sack of Rome for the exhibition Roma Capta. Il Sacco del 1527, le arti e la città, due to open in Rome in Spring 2027. He will spend the autumn in Rome as a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome and a Guest Scholar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Guido joined The Courtauld in September 2013 and is currently Head of the Research Degree.
Dr Tom Young, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art Histories, has been awarded the Paul Mellon Centre’s Rome Fellowship. Every year, one Rome Fellowship is offered to allow an individual the unique opportunity to undertake three months of dedicated research and work on a visually focused topic relating to cultural contact, exchange and influence between Britain (including its historical Empire and Commonwealth) and Italy, whilst being based at the British School at Rome (BSR). He will be working on a project called ‘Old Indians’ in Italy: A Forgotten Artistic Exchange, exploring how retired East India Company employees shaped artistic exchanges between Britain and Italy in the 19th century. Tom joined The Courtauld in 2023.
Professor Susie Nash, Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art, has been awarded an I Tatti Visiting Senior Professorship for Aug – Nov 2025. I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a centre for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. Each semester, several distinguished senior scholars serve as Visiting Professors. Susie joined The Courtauld in 1993.