Fellows Interns Summer Schools and Workshops
Fellows
Shedding light on Coptic monastic heritage and cultural memory by uncovering the manuscript treasures of the monastery of St. Paul the Hermit
Summer Fellow
Examining the history of the cult of saints and its political usage in late antique, medieval, and modern Caucasia
Summer Fellow
Developing a graduate research seminar in which students will interrogate how race and racial processes work spatially and trace oppressive and resistant spatial imaginaries
Mellon History Teaching Fellow
Highlighting the cultural and ecological significance of plants to human societies throughout history
Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Humanities
Cataloging and delivering archival visual materials for the Syria Documentation Project
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
Employing an empathic design thinking methodology to provide tangible toolkits and framework for developing belonging in public space
Mellon Fellow
Cataloging Justin Kerr’s photographic archive of ancient Maya ceramics
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, ICFA
Investigating changes and continuity in the organization of pottery production in Tawantinsuyu
Summer Fellow
Exploring how artists give concrete form to the idea of divinity and how those images create dynamic relationships between gods and people in an upcoming exhibition
Summer Fellow
Completing editions of Byzantine seals from Turkish museum and a prosopographical study of the officials
Summer Fellow
Exploring how vivid visual allegories of Christ’s fractured body became a means to conceptualize and represent ecumenical union
Summer Fellow
Designing metrics to evaluate the success of the institution’s scholarly programming and public engagement
Postgraduate Performance Measurement and Evaluation Fellow
Studying loan records to shed light on the transmission and reception of Byzantine literature within the Venetian scholarly circles
Summer Fellow
Examining the complex ways in which Byzantine ceremony was transmitted and received in major Italian centers
Summer Fellow
Researching the iconography of the Amazon Polychrome Tradition pottery and how this symbolic vocabulary is apparently shared with other cultures
Summer Fellow
Tracing the continuity of compliance with divine communications, as witnessed by inscriptions, into late antiquity
Summer Fellow
Recounting how and why Americans came to care about the environment and how those attitudes contributed to changes in the nation’s urban areas and natural environments
Mellon Fellow
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
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
Making connections between textual and sigillographic evidence for individuals mentioned in the Alexiad
Summer Fellow
Researching the history of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens to develop materials for the centennial celebration
Postgraduate Curatorial Fellow for the Garden Centennial
Interns
Researching and cataloging archival visual materials pertaining to art and architecture in North Africa and the Levant
Planning, preparing, and executing educational programs related to the museum collections and historic garden
Developing an online exhibit to document the history of music and musicians associated with Dumbarton Oaks
Conducting research on plants to create an interactive essay and contribute to an online collection
Summer Schools and Workshops
Garden and Landscape Studies Graduate Workshop
Analyzing how colonial and postcolonial segregation and inequality intersect to push the poor to the margins of urban areas
Exploring the visible and invisible boundaries that determine social and spatial disparities through a series of case studies
Examining the public gardens from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century in Bangalore
Investigating health equity and environmental justice implications of urban green space access and exposure in Portland, Oregon
Addressing the urgent demand for reconsidering the (un)healthy places of public health in the context of Shiraz
Redefining what a cemetery can become, reinforcing its role in the urban green infrastructure
Bringing to light marginalized narratives of Brazilian female landscape architects and inquiries on the architecture canon in Brazil
Examining medical infrastructures across the Sinosphere, whose architects, doctors, land-surveyors, and engineers integrated new understandings of disease and hygiene into their built work
Charting a history of the children’s playground in Britain and changing ideas about the urban environment, public health, industrial technology, and landscape design
Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Syriac and Armenian Summer School
Intermediate Syriac
Introduction to Classical Armenian
Plant Humanities Summer Program
International University Menéndez Pelayo – Spanish National Research Council
