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The First Black Landscape Architects

Glenn LaRue Smith researches the history and contributions of Black landscape architects in post-Reconstruction America

Finding Home in Memory and Music

Layale Chaker blends musical techniques and disciplines to record memories and tell stories

Monasteries Beyond the Cloisters

Justin Mann visualizes how Hosios Loukas and other Middle Byzantine monasteries shaped and controlled surrounding landscapes

The Words of Maya Elders

Crystal Sheedy documents a contemporary speech genre in Xocén that has preserved Maya cultural knowledge across centuries

Learning from Colonial Plants

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

Development of United Nations Educational Resources

Amherst Folger Humanities Fellow Campbell Hannan reflects on the interdisciplinary process of developing educational resources on Dumbarton Oaks and the United ...

Platonism in the Eastern Mediterranean

Samet Budak traces scholarly networks and intellectual traditions of Byzantine, Ottoman, and Arab philosophers

The Lion in the Garden

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

A Tale of Two Polities

Patricia Chirinos Ogata examines sites of unsuccessful Wari imperial expansion in the northern highlands of Peru

Preserving Black History

Amber N. Wiley tells the story and legacy of Black historic preservation during the Bicentennial