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Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas

Histories of racial segregation and its impacts have been the focus of urban research for over a century, and yet the role of space, place, and land in these ...

Science and the Settler State

Caitlin Blanchfield studies the contested landscapes of scientific research structures in North America

Araucania-Patagonia’s Indigenous Landscape

Rodrigo Booth studies the transformation of the ancestral land of the Mapuche people

Changing Climates, Changing Histories: Perspectives from the Humanities

This symposium brings together scholars to discuss human-induced climate change in the past from the perspective of the humanities.

Learning from Colonial Plants

Marlis Hinckley tracks the translation of Indigenous Mexican plants and plant knowledge to sixteenth-century Europe

The Lion in the Garden

Lihong Liu traces the history and art historiographical significance of the Lion Grove Garden in Suzhou across dynasties

The Garden and Landscape Studies Program (1992–2022)

Expanding ways of studying how landscape and culture shape one another

Learning from Louisiana’s Wetlands

Diane Allen brings the legacy of Maroon communities that lived in New Orleans’s bayous to wetlands restoration projects

Social Fragmentation and Antebellum Cemeteries

Aaron Wunsch examines landscapes of social fragmentation in antebellum Philadelphia

The Formation of the Garden and Landscape Studies Program (1952–1991)

Transforming Mildred Bliss’s vision into an academic program