Examining the potential contribution of Maroon landscape and way of life to ecological protection and climate adaptation for coastal communities
Fellow
Addressing the potential of ancient sites in Lima and other palimpsest cities to be democratic “raw/free spaces”
Mellon History Teaching Fellow, Fall
Revealing and contextualizing an Inca messianic vision in the iconography of the Vilcabamba piece
Fellow
Placing two Christian sculptures at the intersection of colonial politics and exploitative labor conditions in the Andes
Tyler Fellow
Examining architectural and territorial formations of settler colonialism and appropriation of Indigenous territories in North America
Junior Fellow
Exploring the language of enslavement in the Shepherd of Hermas and the particular characteristics expected of God’s enslaved
Tyler Fellow
Studying the aesthetic perceptions of Northern Patagonia-Araucania and the rise of a new environmental ethic
Fellow
Highlighting the cultural and ecological significance of plants to human societies throughout history
Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Humanities
Exploring the connectivity of intellectual production and scholarly networks in seemingly disparate parts of the Mediterranean
Junior Fellow
Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Humanities Fellow
Researching the Byzantine holdings in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives
Postdoctoral Fellow, Byzantine Art and Archaeology, ICFA
Developing an opera about displaced children with uppgivenhetssyndrom, or resignation syndrome
Early-Career Musician, Fall
Investigating the process of Wari imperial expansion to the north highlands of Peru and changes in occupation strategies during the Middle Horizon
Junior Fellow
Tom Conley
Visiting Scholar, Spring
Vera Conley
Visiting Scholar, Spring
Researching the content, nature, and transmission of Hellenistic mechanical texts from Heron of Alexandria to Georgios Pachymeres of Constantinople
Fellow
Exploring the relations between Constantinople and its hinterland and how the elites of Asia Minor were attracted to the capital
Fellow, Spring
Studying the compilation and transmission of canonical and theological materials, evidencing a link between these two domains of intellectual production
Fellow
Researching the representations and roles of plants across history
Postgraduate Plant Humanities Fellow
Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Humanities Fellow
Investigating the intellectual output of the multilingual Melkite Christian scholars of Byzantine Antioch
Junior Fellow
Writing a history of the Pindus Mountains during the Ottoman period and interrogating the trope of localism and isolation
Fellow, Fall
Exploring how the people of the late antique eastern Mediterranean responded to collective trauma
Junior Fellow
Revising and rethinking how foreign identities were both born into and performed through practices of belonging and othering
Fellow, Spring
Developing online educational resources and and helping to facilitate remote distance learning sessions with school and community partners
Postgraduate Public Programming and Outreach Fellow
Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and the Folger Shakespeare Library
Humanities Fellow
Focusing on the centrality of gardening at religious institutions to the development of knowledge about plants in the early Spanish transatlantic world
Junior Fellow
Interpreting the East Syriac Christian texts written in classical Chinese during the Tang Dynasty (618–907)
Tyler Fellow
Farhan Karim
Mellon History Teaching Fellow, Spring
Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum
Humanities Fellow
Examining how the Indigenous communities of the Rappahannock River valley used landscape to create new forms and practices of indigeneity in a colonized world
Fellow, Spring
Examining the nature and structure of power and landscape in the Ijebu Kingdom of southwestern Nigeria
Junior Fellow
Synthesizing the historic and ethnographic information about Maya land use with the recent archaeological, paleoethnobotanical, and molecular genetic data
Fellow, Fall
Designing metrics to evaluate the success of the institution’s scholarly programming and public engagement
Postgraduate Performance Measurement and Evaluation Fellow
Tracing the life and afterlife of the Lion Grove Garden in Suzhou, China, and its sociopolitical entanglements
Fellow
Tracking the development over the last fifty years of a binational construction industry organized around cantera stone
Mellon Fellow
Envisioning the monastic landscape as an entity composed of interwoven cultural landscapes of authority, economy, the sacred, and natural topography.
Junior Fellow
Radically rethinking the reciprocity between urbanism and democracy, focusing on the histories of political landscapes
Mellon Fellow, Fall
Elucidating the raw materials of the tools and how these were used by ancient master craftsmen to manufacture stone ornaments in the Maya area and beyond
Fellow
Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and the National Gallery of Art
Humanities Fellow
Synthesizing research on the Paracas Necropolis mortuary assemblage and new discoveries and insights on the Paracas-Nasca transition
Fellow
Exploring a passion for storytelling in chamber, dramatic, and orchestra compositions and performances
Early-Career Musician, Spring
Comparing Greek and Latin centonic and paraphrastic poems to better understand the late antique conceptions of genre
Tyler Fellow
Connecting contemporary ethnographic findings to historical sources and demonstrating how women are actively preserving their cultural knowledge
Fellow
Chronicling the cultural climate, areas of practice, and significant accomplishments of Black graduates of landscape architecture programs in the United States
Mellon Fellow, Spring
Examines the reception of earlier Byzantine medical, theological, and philosophical literature in the thought of East Syriac monastic leader Bābai the Great
Junior Fellow
Exploring the intersection of art, culture, power, and philanthropy in Washington, DC
Postgraduate Cultural Philanthropy Fellow
Sharing exciting Dumbarton Oaks research far beyond the gates through photos, video, and social media
Postgraduate Digital Media Fellow
Reporting on scholarship supported by Dumbarton Oaks through articles, newsletters, and social media
Postgraduate Writing and Reporting Fellow
Studying the personhood of builders and residents to understand the internal dynamics of labor recruitment, organization, and management at a Late Classic Maya palace
Junior Fellow, Spring
Connecting the broadening of the historic preservation field in the Bicentennial area with the continuing effort to identify, contextualize, and save Black landmarks
Mellon Fellow
Exploring sites of conflict in Atlanta, Memphis, Washington, DC, Richmond, and Charlottesville
Mellon History Teaching Fellow, Fall
Investigating a new type of cemetery in antebellum Philadelphia and its relationship to the “social” cemetery tradition from which early rural cemeteries
Fellow, Fall
Arguing that the Greek vernacular romances were powerfully innovative literature within a thought-world of prodigious cultural exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean
Fellow
Focusing on Evagrius of Pontus’s efforts to answer and rebut the philosophy of Porphyry and other fourth-century Hellenic writers and his understanding of the role of the gnostikos, or sage
Fellow
Researching the history of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens to develop materials for the centennial celebration
Postgraduate Curatorial Fellow for the Garden Centennial