Fellows
Traci Ardren, University of Miami
Pre-Columbian (Spring)
Go in Pairs, Intertwined: Soft Technologies and the Role of Plants in Classic Maya Identity
Thomas Arentzen, University of Oslo
Byzantine Studies
Reading between the Limbs: Holy Week and Byzantine Bodies
Alberto Bardi, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani
Byzantine Studies
Astronomy in Byzantium: Workshop of Entangled Cultures
Daniel Caner, Indiana University, Bloomington
Byzantine Studies
The Early Evolution of Christian Philanthropy in Early Byzantium
Rosa Ficek, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey
Garden and Landscape Studies
The Pan-American Highway: Mobility and Encounter in Landscapes of Difference
Heidi Hohmann, Iowa State University
Garden and Landscape Studies (Spring)
Civic Ecology: The Evolution of the Minneapolis Park System
Vera Klontza-Jaklova, Masaryk University
Byzantine Studies
Crete in the Period of Arab Expansion (7th–9th Century)
Katherine Rinne, California College of the Arts
Garden and Landscape Studies (Fall)
Experiments with Beauty: Hydraulic Investigations in Rome and Lazio and the Genesis of Baroque Architecture (1550–1585)
Christos Simelidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Byzantine Studies
John Geometres’s The Life of the Virgin Mary: Edition and Translation
Alexandre Tokovinine, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Pre-Columbian Studies (Spring)
In the Shadow of Overlords: Minor Royal Dynasties of the Classic Maya
James Zeidler, Colorado State University
Pre-Columbian Studies
Contextual and Iconographic Analysis of Prehispanic Ceramic Artifacts from the Jama River Valley, Coastal Ecuador
Yingzhi Zhao, City University of Hong Kong
Garden and Landscape Studies
Fragments, Ruins, and Dreamscape: Spatial Discourse and Spatial Imagination in Early Qing Literature and Culture
Junior Fellows
Reyhan Durmaz, Brown University
Byzantine Studies
Saints, Stories, and Sanctity between Christianity and Islam
Angel Gonzalez, University of California, Riverside
Pre-Columbian Studies
The Production of New Political Speech: Unpacking the Stone Sculptures Archive from Tenochtitlan
Christine Griffiths, Bard Graduate Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Garden and Landscape Studies
From Garden to Toilette: Cultivating Perfume in Early Modern England
Carla Hernandez Garavito, Vanderbilt University
Pre-Columbian Studies
Cultural Legibility and the Provincial Inca Empire: Subjugation of the Inca in Local Memory and Ritual in Huarochirí
Anna Kelley, University of Birmingham
Byzantine Studies
The Fabric of Time: Cotton and the Transformation of the Late Antique Economy
Sarah Leonard, University of Delaware
Garden and Landscape Studies
“The beauty of the bough-hung banks”: William Morris in the Thames Landscape
Patrick Mullins, University of Pittsburgh
Pre-Columbian Studies
The Transformation of Political Frontier Landscapes in the Upper Moche Valley of Peru
Scotti Norman, Vanderbilt University
Pre-Columbian Studies
The Archaeology of Taki Onqoy: Revitalization and Religious Entanglement in Highland Peru
Mark Pawlowski, University of California, Los Angeles
Byzantine Studies
Housing and the Village Landscape in the Byzantine Mani
Erin Walsh, Duke University
Byzantine Studies
Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in the Liturgical Poetry of Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
William R. Tyler Fellows
Trenton Barnes
Pre-Columbian Studies
Walking the Space of Time: Void and Body in the Architecture of Teotihuacan, Mexico
Walter Chahanovich
Islamic Mysticism and Apocalypticism in the Eastern Mediterranean
Philip Gant
Garden and Landscape Studies
Temple Litigation and Korea’s Long Nineteenth Century
John Mulhall
Byzantine Studies
Eastern Knowledge, Latin Letters: A Cultural History of the Medieval Translation Movement, ca. 1050–1350
Jake Ransohoff
Byzantine Studies
Vision and Punishment: Blinding in the Byzantine World
Mellon Fellows in Urban Landscape Studies
Sheila Crane, University of Virginia
Garden and Landscape Studies (Spring)
Inventing Informality
Sahar Hosseini, Rutgers University
Garden and Landscape Studies (Fall)
The Zayandehrud River Speaks: Reading the Riverine Landscapes of Seventeenth-Century Isfahan
Sarah Klassen, Arizona State University
Garden and Landscape Studies (Fall)
Agro-Urban Environments and Implications for Resilience in Medieval Cambodia
Sara Zewde, Independent Scholar
Garden and Landscape Studies (Spring)
Cotton Kingdom, Now
Summer Fellows
Theodora Antonopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Byzantine Studies
The Homiletic and Hagiographical Sources for St. Christodoulos, Founder of the Monastery of Patmos: Critical Edition with Introduction and Indices
Reinhart Ceulemans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Byzantine Studies
Ideology in the Exegesis of the Paris Psalter
Marina Detoraki, University of Crete
Byzantine Studies
Recension Φ of John Moschos’s Pratum Spirituale: Critical Edition and Commentary
Ciro Giacomelli, Università degli Studi di Padova
Byzantine Studies
Mirabilia between Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Eugenia Ibarra, Universidad de Costa Rica
Pre-Columbian Studies
Exploring the Ethnohistory of Pre-Columbian Late Migrants in Lower Central America: Maribios, Mexicanos, and Cicuas in Focus in the Sixteenth Century
Francesco Lovino, Center for Early Medieval Studies
Byzantine Studies
Byzantine Imagery and the French Modern Beholder: The 1931 Exposition internationale d’art byzantin in Paris
Ekaterini Mitsiou, Universität Wien
Byzantine Studies
After Collapse: Aristocratic Networks and Imperial Power in the Empire of Nicaea
Alex Rodriguez Suarez, Independent Scholar
Byzantine Studies
The Latinophilia of Manuel I Komnenos: Cultural Exchange at the Byzantine Court
Felix Szabo, University of Chicago
Byzantine Studies
Lead Seals of Middle Byzantine Eunuchs: A Reassessment of the Evidence in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection
Gary Urton, Harvard University
Pre-Columbian Studies
Inca Khipu
Isabel Yaya McKenzie, Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Paris
Pre-Columbian Studies
Beyond Descent and Affinity: Rethinking the Inca Royal Ayllus as a “House Society”
Humanities Fellows
Ariana Chaivaranon, National Gallery of Art
Julie Estrada, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Lindiwe Makgalemele, National Museum of Natural History
Catherine Polik, George Washington Museum and Textile Museum
Charles Webb, Folger Shakespeare Library