Cosima Stewart (September 2026-June 2027)
Cosima Stewart is Researcher and Publication Coordinator at HALI Publications Ltd., London, and Creative Director of reWoven, a nonprofit organization in Tbilisi dedicated to sustaining the weaving traditions of Azerbaijani communities in Georgia. Her project, Lost Connections: Wool and Weaving in 19th Century Georgia, examines Caucasian rug weaving through archival research, technical analysis, and fieldwork across Georgia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Türkiye. By combining historical sources with the close study of exemplary rugs and textiles, her research seeks to reconstruct the relationships between landscape, pastoralism, wool production, and weaving traditions in nineteenth-century Georgia.
Adela Foo (September 2026-June 2027)
Adela Foo is a doctoral candidate at Yale University. Her fellowship project represents the third chapter of her dissertation on the Aq Quyunlu (“White Sheep”) Turkmen confederation (1467–1508). Through a close study of three important carpets in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, she investigates the role of weavers as agents of artistic, political, and technological change. Her research also reexamines the attribution of Para-Mamluk carpets to the Aq Quyunlu, offering new perspectives on the emergence of a visual language that shaped carpet design across the Herat–Tabriz–Istanbul axis.