List of Former Fellows
| 2013 | Susan Gagliardi | The City College of The City University of New York | Display and Anti-Display: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural "Frontier". |
| 2012 | Anastasia Grib | The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia | The Qur'anic Board in West and North Africa |
| 2012 | Andrew Hamilton | Harvard University | Scale in the Pre-Columbian Andean World |
| 2011 | Gitti Salami | Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon | Visual Culture of Yakurr society in the Middle Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Cory-Pearce | Australian National University, Canberra | Modernity's Guises: Maori 'Gift Exchange' and Imperial and Colonial Relations |
| 2010 | Paolo Fortis | University of St Andrews | Images, Designs and Ontology among the Kuna. An Ethnographic Theory of Visual Art |
| 2010 | Henry Drewal | University of Wisconsin- Madison | Arts of Yoruba speaking people in West Africa using sensiotics |
2009 |
Kevin Lane | Manchester University | Engineered Worlds: Community, Technology and Landscape in the Ancient Andes |
2009 |
Chris Beekman | University of Colorado Denver | Archaeology of Jalisco, western Mexico |
| 2008 | Bodil Olesen | Aarhus University and UCL | Contemporary Malian bogolan, or mud cloth |
| Catarina Krizancic | Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago | The 'demis' of Tahiti - a study of Tahitian aristocracy | |
| 2007 | Carol Mayer | Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver | Frank Burnett Collection of early 20th century Pacific Art and Photography. |
| Penny Dransart | University of Wales, Lampeter | Colour experience in the Andes & Europe | |
| 2006 | Claudia Gross | University of Auckland | Garden Aesthetics & Mimesis in Upper Awara, Papua New Guinea |
| Malika Kraamer | SOAS & National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden | Hand-woven textile histories in southern Ghana and Togo | |
| 2005 | Julie Hollowell | Indiana University | Archaeological materials and collections from the Bering Strait |
| Jean Borgatti | Clark University | Masquerades & aesthetics of the Okpella, Southern Nigeria | |
| 2004 | Michael Jehle | New Bedford Whaling Museum | Sperm whale ivory in Polynesian ornamentation |
| James Fitzsimmons | University of South Dakota | Death and ritual among the ancient Maya | |
| Jeffrey Blomster | George Washington University | Olmec and regional styles: Early Formative art and iconography in Mesoamerica | |
| Christopher Donnan | University of California at Los Angeles | Early Moche developments at Dos Cabezas, North Coast, Peru | |
| 2003 | Virginia Miller | University of Illinois, Chicago | Art and Architecture at Chichen Itza |
| Philip Peek | Drew University | Representations of the communal self in African arts | |
| 2002 | Alison Dundon | Australian National University | Carving and Christianity among the Gogodala |
| Rhys Richards | Independent scholar | Austral Island ceremonial paddles | |
| 2001 | Esther Pasztory | Columbia University | Travels and art of Jean-Frederic Waldeck |
| Germain Loumpet | University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon | Art and material culture: semantic redeployments and strategies for identification | |
| 2000 | Wilfried Van Damme | Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands | The philosophy of ewa, beauty, in Yoruba culture, Nigeria |
| Goran Aijmer | University of Goteborg | Iconic codes and aesthetics | |
| 1999 | Claude Chapdelaine | University of Montreal | The Moche state: power, ideology and urbanism |
| Ross Hassig | University of Oklahoma | Aztec thought and culture | |
| 1998 | Marshall Sahlins | University of Chicago | Fijian history and culture |
| Dana Rush | University of Iowa | Vodun arts of West Africa, particularly Benin | |
| 1997 | John Agberia | University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria | Ladi Kwali pottery: the Abuja Experiment in Nigeria |
| Laurie Beckwith | University of Calgary | Late Formative period ceramics of Ecuador | |
| 1996 | Richard Eves | Australian National University, Canberra | Dance, magic and power, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea |
| Iris Gareis | Institut fur Volkerkunde und Afrikanistik, Munich | Representations of good and evil in Europe and America | |
| 1995 | Sarah Brett-Smith | Rutgers University | Bamana women's cloths, Mali, West Africa |
| Sandra Klopper | University of Cape Town | Zulu and southern African art and material culture | |
| 1994 | Jack Goody | University of Cambridge | Representation and cognitive contradictions |
| Jerry Moore | California State University, Dominguez Hills | Pre-Columbian plazas and the archaeology of constructed space | |
| Michael Gunn | Northern Territory Museum, Australia | Malagan of Tabar, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea | |
| 1993 | Barbara Saunders | University of Utrecht | Northwest Coast, Canada; colour theory |