NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.- The Yale Center for British Art is pleased to announce the appointment of two new colleagues. Dr. Michael Hatt will serve as the Center’s Head of Research, and Cassandra Albinson will be the Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture. As the new Head of Research, Michael Hatt will expand the Center’s research and fellowship programs, building new ties across the University and establishing closer links with research institutes in the visual arts internationally. A graduate of the University of London (BA and PhD), Michael comes to the Center from the Art History department at the University of Nottingham, where he was Deputy Director of the Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture. His publications have ranged widely across British and American cultural history. Recent articles include “Substance and Shadow: Conceptions of Embodiment in Rodin and the New Sculpture,” Rodin in Britain (ed. Claudine Mitchell, 2003) and “Sculpting and Lynching: The Making and Unmaking of the Black Citizen in Late-Nineteenth-Century America,” Oxford Art Journal (2001). In 2003–04, Michael was a Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, and he is now completing a monograph on homoeroticism and visual culture in late Victorian Britain. A book co-authored with Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods, will be published by Manchester University Press in the spring of 2005. Michael will be assisted by Morna O’Neill, the Center’s new Research Associate. Morna will receive her PhD in the History of Art at Yale this semester.

Cassandra Albinson also joins the Center as the Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture. A graduate of Wellesley College, Cassandra holds a master’s degree in the History of Art from Yale and is a PhD candidate who is submitting her dissertation, “Peeresses in Paint: Portraits of Aristocratic Women and the Question of Representation, 1837–1901,” this term. Cassandra has spent the last two years in Los Angeles as a predoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute. No stranger to the Center, she was a curatorial fellow in both the Department of Paintings and Sculpture and the Department of Prints and Drawings during her time at Yale. She also held fellowships with the Paul Mellon Centre in London and the Kress Foundation.