Congratulations to the awardees of the HNA Fellowship 2025! The recipients for this year were announced at the HNA Annual Members’ Meeting on February 7, 2025:
Nicole Ganbold (predoc Utrecht University): Funding for travel to New Zealand for her dissertation “Global Encounters. On Dutch Production and Global Circulation of the Image of the Māori by Isaac Gilsemans”
Hanne Schonkeren (predoc Vrije Universitaet Brussels): Funding for her project “Ingenious craftsmanship: a performative and art historical study of gold and silversmithing in sixteenth-century Antwerp” – specifically funds to support travel and residency at Cambridge-Trinity Hall for 2 months to work with a new mentor Alexander Marr and to conduct object-based work at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, for (RRR methods – Reconstruction, Re-enactment, and Replication methods)
Bryony Coombs (Teaching Fellow, The University of Edinburgh): Funds for images to finalize the publication of the edited volume Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem (under contract with Brepols)
Kaylee Feller-Simmons (predoc, Musicology at Indiana University Bloomington): Funding for a 3-week research trip from Chicago to The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leiden) to study collections of songbooks, for her dissertation on “Gender and Youth Song Culture in the Dutch Republic, ca. 1630-80”
Nur’Ain Taha (predoc Utrecht University): Funding to travel to Japan (Kobe City Museum and Kyoto National Museum) for research on the global journey of ‘Dutch gin bottles’ as part of her dissertation “The Foreign & the Familiar: Material and Knowledge Encounter in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art Objects”
Right: Unknown, Paintings of the Dutch, 1740s (Edo period), Nagasaki, Japan. Woodblock brush painting, 43.5 cm (h) 32.4 cm (w), Kobe City Museum, Japan.