Studying the origins and evolution of the Office of Holy Communion and the relationship between popular piety and official liturgy
Fellow
Exploring the connections between Inca and early Colonial labor strategies and their ties to the development of racial ideology
Tyler Fellow
Translating works by Theodore II Laskaris and studying Eustathios’s repurposing of ancient knowledge
Visiting Scholar (Fall Term)
Investigating early Christianity in Egypt through a study of a 4th-century church excavated at the site of Amheida
Fellow (Spring Term)
Offering a new perspective on how early modern society conceived of relationships between bodies, health, and the built environment
Fellow
Producing a new narrative of the cultural history of medieval Armenia by focusing on translation culture, production, and transmission
Fellow
Highlighting the cultural and ecological significance of plants to human societies throughout history
Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Humanities
Writing the first comprehensive study of Byzantine ship design and its impact upon 14th-century Venetian shipbuilding manuscripts
Fellow
Researching the Byzantine holdings in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives
Postdoctoral Fellow, Byzantine Art and Archaeology, ICFA
Researching the representations and roles of plants across history and developing the Margaret Mee exhibition
Postgraduate Fellow in Botanical Art
Cataloging Justin Kerr’s photographic archive of ancient Maya ceramics
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pre-columbian Art and Archaeology, ICFA
Exploring Indigenous land dispossession as a consequence of strategic invisibility
Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies (Fall)
Traversing a broad range of emotionally expressive harmonies through the use of varied tuning strategies in a new composition, “Ecotonal”
Early-Career Musician (Spring Term)
Examining how the shaping of the built environment and visual representations of the urban landscape encourage and foreclose community formations
Junior Fellow
Studying the use of porphyry sarcophagi as a part of Byzantine material language employed by rulers abroad to bolster their authority
Tyler Fellow
Exploring Byzantine money as one of the most important meaning-making practices in the visual culture of Byzantium
Visiting Scholar (Fall Term)
Focusing on the relationship between the Church and the imperial authority in Byzantium in the judicial field from the 10th to 15th century
Junior Fellow
Reconstructing ceramic production practices to understand shared learning, community identities, and sociopolitical relationships
Junior Fellow
Examining and comparing the ethnohistoric and archaeological sources on Aztec and Spanish colonial sculpture
Fellow
Mapping late 19th-century portrayals of Parisian women, ornamental plants, and urban spaces
Plant Humanities Fellow
Exploring the political and ideological history of the Byzantine Empire
Visiting Scholar (Fall Term)
Surveying the Byzantine Galleries and trends in art historical scholarship to connect the galleries to new audiences
Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow
Connecting the history of medicine, pharmacy, and botany with digital humanities, with a special interest in the early modern period
Plant Humanities Fellow
Using non-Greek Byzantine seals to explore the medieval frontier and Christian-Muslim relations
Fellow (Spring Term)
Studying the musical rituals of Andean Christianity and “Pre-Columbian” religions in the rural colonial Andes
Tyler Fellow
Designing metrics to evaluate the success of the institution’s scholarly programming and public engagement
Postgraduate Performance Measurement and Evaluation Fellow
Developing K–12 educational programming centered on the museum’s world-class collections and historic garden
Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow
Cataloging images of Dumbarton Oaks’ fieldwork to preserve Byzantine church frescoes in Cyprus
Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow
Researching the transmission of Classic Maya hieroglyphic writing and scribal communities of practice
Junior Fellow
Working on an orchestra piece for the National Symphony Orchestra celebrating the life of literary genius Toni Morrison
Early-Career Musician (Fall Term)
Cataloging archival visual materials pertaining to Roman and late antique Syria for online access
Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow
Drawing on architecture, landscape design, historical sources, and Mughal paintings to explore gender and gardens
Fellow (Spring Term)
Alex C. J. Neroth van Vogelpoel
Exploring the origins, structure, and meaning of the unique East Syriac rites of preparing the Eucharistic bread and wine
Junior Fellow
Looking at a fishing community to explore economic specialization and networks in early ranked societies
Junior Fellow
Analyzing early Christian deathscapes as architectural units, actors within the civic landscape, nodes of cultural memory, and sites of bodily practice
Tyler Fellow
Demonstrating the role of nonelite craftspeople and communities in procuring resources and engaging in multiregional exchange networks
Junior Fellow
Editing Byzantine lead seals for Dumbarton Oaks’ online catalog
Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow
Asking how we ascribe religious or cultural identity to landscape, and specifically what we mean when we talk about an “Islamic garden”
Visiting Scholar (Spring Term)
Doing research and editorial work for several forthcoming volumes in medieval studies
Postgraduate Fellow in Medieval Literature
Comparing Greek and Latin centonic and paraphrastic poems to better understand the late antique conceptions of genre
Tyler Fellow
Contributing to methods of reading urban cultural landscapes by examining how this landscape is experienced and imagined by community insiders
Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies (Spring Term)
Exploring the consequences of the production of Late Roman and early Byzantine art on the natural world, the environment, flora and fauna, and human health
Visiting Scholar (Spring Term)
Examining how immigrant entrepreneurs have repurposed retail and industrial buildings and have revitalized urban landscapes
Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies
Sharing exciting Dumbarton Oaks research far beyond the gates through photos, video, and social media
Postgraduate Digital Media Fellow
Developing online educational resources and and helping to facilitate remote distance learning sessions with school and community partners
Postgraduate Public Programming and Outreach Fellow
Reporting on scholarship supported by Dumbarton Oaks through articles, newsletters, and social media
Postgraduate Writing and Reporting Fellow
Focusing on Knoxville as a global destination for architects and planners to spread the ideals of a democratic citizenry through city and regional planning efforts
Junior Fellow
Researching the history of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden to develop materials for the centennial celebration
Postgraduate Curatorial Fellow for the Garden Centennial