Clarissa Campbell Orr visited the Center as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Visiting Scholar to pursue her research for a study of Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, and a biography of Mary Granville Delany, 1700–1788, for Yale University Press. Senior Visiting Scholars are invited to spend one month at the Center annually for a term of three years, pursuing their research and participating in the intellectual life of the Center and Yale University. This was Clarissa's first year at the Center.
Rosie Ibbotson is a recent graduate of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where her doctoral research concerned collaborative activity and fraternalism within the Arts and Crafts Movement, with a principal focus on London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Her PhD was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and a Doctoral Research Studentship from the University of Cambridge.
Lars Kokkonen received his Ph.D. in art history from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, in 2010. His dissertation was entitled "John Martin (1789–1854) and the Mechanics of Making Art in a Commercial Nation." Prior to joining the Center, Lars was the Allen Whitehill Clowes Curatorial Fellow at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Christina Smylitopoulos received her PhD in Art History and Communication Studies from McGill University, where she studied the representation of nabobs in British graphic satire. She holds an MA from the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, and was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow and a Paul Mellon Centre Junior Fellow. She has received research grants from, among others, the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon at the Library of Congress, and the Houghton Library at Harvard University. She has recent published articles in The British Art Journal, Eighteenth Century Life, and Word and Image in the Eighteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.