Exploring the connections between Inca and early Colonial labor strategies and their ties to the development of racial ideology.
Academic Year
Trenton Barnes
Pursuing an emic understanding of Teotihuacan architectural practices through Teotihuacan-Maya interactions and indigenous languages and terminology.
Academic Year
Telling the story of that most indulgent musical tradition, the encore, in an original multimedia recital.
Fall Term
Exploring the cosmological arguments advanced by Julian and Cyril of Alexandria in light of the larger early Byzantine political context.
Fall Term
Analyzing isotopic ratios and mortuary practices from Teotihuacan to understand urban migration patterns over time.
Academic Year
Postdoctoral Fellow in Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives
Academic Year
Exploring the negotiation between ritual continuity and innovation during the Spanish conquest of the Maya highlands.
Academic Year
Furthering our understanding of Ottoman eschatological enthusiasm in the early modern eastern Mediterranean.
Academic Year
Postdoctoral Fellow in Precolumbian Art and Archaeology, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives
Academic Year
Investigating the transformation of Nahua figures of power (teteoh) into “pagan gods” in the 16th century.
Summer Term
Preparing a publication of manuscripts from Iveron Monastery, Mt. Athos, mostly dating from the Palaiologan period.
Spring Term
Exploring the construction of Tuscian identity through three of the most celebrated 16th-century Italian gardens.
Academic Year
Translating Cyril of Alexandria’s Contra Julianum and shedding light on intellectual and social interactions in late antiquity.
Fall Term
Analyzing the efficacy of dance as a practice to adopt and interact with alterity during the veintena ceremonies.
Summer Term
Offering a reappraisal of Emperor Jovian’s short reign through the lenses of history and legend.
Summer Term
Studying the use of porphyry sarcophagi as a part of Byzantine material language employed by rulers abroad to bolster their authority.
Academic Year
Studying the prosopography of economic actors in Byzantine monasteries, churches, and pious foundations using lead seals.
Summer Term
Integrating primary sources, online resources, and secondary literature to narrate and foster the exploration of the cultural histories and influence of plants.
Academic Year
Examining the influences of Near Eastern “paradises” on Roman gardens, underscoring deep links between East and West.
Academic Year
Exploring how different religious groups interacted in the later medieval Mediterranean through the lens of captivity.
Spring Term
Analyzing Greek ekphrastic epigrams to explore the development of a Christian visual culture.
Academic Year
Analyzing the material culture of personal adornment to investigate how individuals expressed allegiance to Christ in late antiquity.
Summer Term
Exploring how Byzantine, Carolingian, and papal authors understood space and power in 9th-century Great Moravia.
Academic Year
Exploring social organization, power dynamics, and labor relations at colonial silver mining refineries in the western Lake Titicaca Basin.
Academic Year
Exploring ideologies of landscape through local resistance to the Turkish state’s efforts to integrate the Upper Euphrates region.
Academic Year
Examining the characters presented in Byzantine narratives through the theoretical lens of gender, queer, and collective narratology.
Academic Year
Contextualizing the reception and cultural production of meaning inherent to the landscape designs of J. C. A. Alphand.
Academic Year
Exploring the texts of agents of late Byzantine poetry and its role as a means of identity-building and cultural cohesion.
Summer Term
Examining the impact of oaths on Byzantine social relationships and the connection between honor and oath-taking.
Academic Year
Studying the musical rituals of Andean Christianity and “Pre-Columbian” religions in the rural colonial Andes.
Academic Year
Investigating maize horticulture and associated constructed landscapes of the early Late Woodland Western Basin Tradition peoples.
Academic Year
Exploring the history of the shared landscapes where scientists and the animals they study coexist.
Spring Term
Studying the only three centralized plan/cruciform churches in Ethiopia dating to the medieval period.
Academic Year
John Mulhall
Offering a cultural history of the medieval translation movement of Greek and Arabic texts into Latin through the original writings of translators.
Academic Year
Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
Academic Year
Integrating primary sources, online resources, and secondary literature to narrate and foster the exploration of the cultural histories and influence of plants.
Academic Year
Walter Pohl
Byzantine Studies Visiting Scholar
Spring Term
Analyzing early Christian deathscapes as architectural units, actors within the civic landscape, nodes of cultural memory, and sites of bodily practice.
Academic Year
Studying Michael Psellos’s appraisal of the psalms to shed light on the afterlife and the use of some of Psellos’s works.
Summer Term
Challenging the stereotype of solitude and isolation of Egyptian monasteries through a study of wall paintings at Bawit.
Fall Term
Investigating John of Nikiu’s Chronicle to reveal the diversity of thought among Egyptian Christians in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Academic Year
Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Academic Year
Exploring the interwoven Epi-Olmec monumental art and hieroglyphic program developed in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Academic Year
Fall Term
Examining the administrative apparatus of Byzantine Italy in the 7th and 8th centuries using lead seals.
Summer Term
Synthesizing results of field investigations that uncovered core areas within the Early Classic Maya Acropolis at Copan.
Academic Year
Exploring the military ethos and martial behaviors of Mexica society through the lens of cultural perceptions of eagles and jaguars.
Summer Term
Advancing our understanding of Byzantine ideas on language, learning, and literature through an investigation of grammar education.
Spring Term
Exploring late antique hagiography from a literary point of view, especially the premetaphrastic Life and Martyrdom of Eugenia.
Summer Term
Analyzing Byzantine stucco decoration in terms of artisans and workshop practices, iconography, patronage, and perception.
Academic Year
Reconstructing the structures and narrative behind the reshaping of the Byzantine capital under the Palaiologan emperors.
Summer Term
Investigating the relationship between the actual Byzantine liturgy of the Eucharist and its representations in visual form.
Academic Year
Exploring visual culture, religion, interregional interaction, and social identity in the “Chavín Phenomenon.”
Academic Year