Exploring the connections between Inca and early Colonial labor strategies and their ties to the development of racial ideology.
Tyler Fellow
Researching how early modern colonial encounters with the natural world helped shape our modern pharmacopoeia.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Examining the distinctive ways in which opera contributed to 18th-century construals of gardens.
GLS Graduate Workshop
Working to develop materials for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Centennial on the legacy of Beatrix Farrand’s design.
Summer Intern
Studying Byzantine scholarship, commentaries, and the role of rhetoric in Byzantine literary culture.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Planning, preparing, and executing educational programs related to the museum collections and historic garden.
Summer Intern
Highlighting the cultural and ecological significance of plants to human societies throughout history.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Humanities
Researching the Byzantine holdings in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives.
Postdoctoral Fellow, ICFA
Cataloging and delivering archival visual materials for the Syria Documentation Project.
Summer Intern
Researching the representations and roles of plants across history and developing the Margaret Mee exhibition.
Postgraduate Fellow in Botanical Art
Cataloging the Justin Kerr’s photographic archive of ancient Maya ceramics.
Postdoctoral Fellow, ICFA
Tackling intertextuality in the scholia vetera and exploring the relationship between the Homeric poems and the Euripidean tragedies.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Questioning how historic preservation and architectural history, in both policy and practice, can perpetuate racial inequality in public spaces.
GLS Graduate Workshop
Premiering a new work for Sandbox Percussion in March at Dumbarton Oaks.
Early-Career Musician in Residence
Studying the use of porphyry sarcophagi as a part of Byzantine material language employed by rulers abroad to bolster their authority.
Tyler Fellow
Researching the changing relationships that people have with plants and the natural world.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Investigating how sites associated with health care create navigable and familiar landscapes for working-class residents of modern cities.
GLS Graduate Workshop
Studying questions of reception across Byzantine artistic media.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Characterizing the perceptions of land in South Asia and their relationship to the changing forms and functions of gardens in the 16th and 17th centuries.
GLS Graduate Workshop/Plant Humanities Summer Program
Exploring the significance of travel by monastic saints in middle Byzantine hagiography.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Researching how the Chinese garden can document China’s continuous cultural traditions.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Studying the writings of Manuel Gabalas and his allegorical interpretation of the Odyssey.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Investigating theories of time, extinction, and the natural world by examining plant-life exhibition work.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Exploring the sociopolitical lives of flowers in Victorian Britain.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Studying the musical rituals of Andean Christianity and “Pre-Columbian” religions in the rural colonial Andes.
Tyler Fellow
Examining how 17th-century Dutch conceptions of the environment inflect landscape depictions.
GLS Graduate Workshop
Focusing on cross-cultural interactions between Byzantium and Latin Europe in the 12th century.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Researching the history of textile work in Colombia, taking a botanical-historical approach to the use of natural fibers.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Offering a new lens on Latin American identity by focusing on the collecting efforts of American scientists, diplomats, and scholars.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Sharing exciting Dumbarton Oaks research far beyond the gates through photos, video, and social media.
Postgraduate Digital Media Fellow
Treating decommission as design to better mitigate the social impact of entangled histories embedded in contested sites.
GLS Graduate Workshop
Sharing exciting Dumbarton Oaks research far beyond the gates through articles, newsletters, and social media.
Postgraduate Writing and Reporting Fellow
Researching the history of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and contributing to the Gender in Byzantium bibliography.
Summer Intern
Analyzing early Christian deathscapes as architectural units, actors within the civic landscape, nodes of cultural memory, and sites of bodily practice.
Tyler Fellow
Exploring contemporary speculative and ecological fictions in conversation with critical race, queer, and feminist theory.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Doing research and editorial work for several forthcoming volumes in medieval studies.
Postgraduate Fellow in Medieval Literature
Designing metrics to evaluate the success of the institution’s scholarly programming and public engagement.
Postgraduate Performance Measurement Fellow
Addressing issues of climate change, politics, and policymaking regarding resource extraction landscapes in the United States and Canada.
GLS Graduate Workshop
Interrogating the relationship between infrastructure and media vis-à-vis the territorial ambiguity presaged by climate change.
GLS Graduate Workshop
Studying Roman identity performance in 9th- and 10th-century Byzantium.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Investigating the practices of health and medicine in 18th-century Indonesia through the records of the Dutch East India Company.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Exploring the orchid trade between Colombia and the United Kingdom in the 19th century.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Cataloging visual materials pertaining to the historical documentation of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden.
Summer Intern
Studying the intersection of cultural and scientific history, especially in 19th-century novels.
Plant Humanities Summer Program
Researching Byzantine diplomacy in the Balkans and imperial memory.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Advocating for a landscape design process that is entangled with ongoing time-based land practices.
GLS Graduate Workshop
Studying the political and social history of middle and late Byzantium.
Byzantine Greek Summer School
Examining secular knowledge, occult science, and everyday life in middle Byzantine Constantinople.
Byzantine Greek Summer School