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Fellowship Community, 2022-2023

Luthfi Adam

Luthfi Adam

Cultivating Power: Botanic Gardens and Empire-Building in the Netherlands East Indies, 1744–1942

Garden and Landscape Studies Fellow

William Adler

William Adler

Critical edition of Greek text of the Palaea Historica

Byzantine Studies Fellow

Abner Aldarondo

Abner Aldarondo

Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and the Folger Shakespeare Library

Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow

Barbara Arroyo

Barbara Arroyo

Beyond Clay, Stone, and Sand: Kaminaljuyu and its role in the Ancient History of Southeastern Mesoamerica

Pre-Columbian Studies Fellow

Joanne Baron

Joanne Baron

Kerr Maya Archive Cataloging Project

Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Postdoctoral Fellow

Adolfo Iván Batún-Alpuche

Adolfo Ivan Batun-Alpuche

Postclassic Maya Beekeeping Gardens and Landscape Management in Cozumel and the Eastern coast of Yucatan

Flora Clancy Fellow in Maya Studies for Latin American Researchers

Timothy Beach

Timothy Beach

The Maya Wetlands Renaissance: Human-Wetland Interactions from Antiquity to the Anthropocene

Pre-Columbian Studies Fellow

Annick Benavides

Annick Benavides

Sacred Place and Possession in the Andes: Carabuco Cross and Copacabana Virgen

William R. Tyler Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies

Brian Bockelman

Brian Bockelman

Palm Modernism (and its Critics) in Urban Landscape Architecture: From Old World to New, 1820s–1920s

Garden and Landscape Studies Fellow (Spring 2023)

Kelsey Bogdan

Kelsey Bogdan

Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum

Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow

Chance Bonar

Chance Everett Bonar

Enslaved to God: Slavery and the Virtuous Life in the ‘Shepherd of Hermas'

William R. Tyler Fellow in Byzantine Studies

Peter Michael Boudreau

Peter Michael Boudreau

Keeping Time: Temporal Imagery and Thought in the Calendars of Later Byzantium

Byzantine Studies Junior Fellow

Nicholas E. Brown

Nicholas E. Brown 

Interactions, Innovations, and Influences of Chavin Arts through the Central Andes of Peru

Pre-Columbian Studies Junior Fellow

Allison Caplan

Allison Caplan

Our Flickering Creations: Precious Art Theory under the Aztec Empire

Pre-Columbian Studies Fellow

Amy Chang

Amy Chang

Architecture at the Edges of Empire: Islam, Asia, and the Interpretation of Architectural Inheritance in the Global Spanish Empire, 16th-17th centuries

William R. Tyler Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies

Paroma Chatterjee

Paroma Chatterjee

The Pastoral Roots of Byzantine Sovereignty

Byzantine Studies Visiting Scholar

Ashon T. Crawley

Ashon T. Crawley

“in search of our mothers’ gardens”

Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies (Fall 2022)

Guilhem Dorandeu-Bureu

Guilhem Dorandeu-Bureu

Enhancing Imperial Authority in a Multicultural Context: the Acta of the Byzantine Catepans of Italy (999–1054)

Byzantine Studies Junior Fellow

Claire Dunning

Claire Dunning

Funding the Urban North: Policy, Philanthropy, and Racial Equity “After” Civil Rights

Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies (Spring 2023)

inti figgis-vizueta

inti figgis-vizueta

Musician in Residence (Fall 2022)

Elena Gittleman

Elena Gittleman

Legacies of Ancient Theater in Middle Byzantine Visual Culture (ca. 843–1204)

Byzantine Studies Junior Fellow

Lungiswa Gqunta

Lungiswa Gqunta

Artist in Residence

Ava Hampton

Ava Hampton

Developing online educational resources and and helping to facilitate remote distance learning sessions with school and community partners

Postgraduate Public Programming and Outreach Fellow

Rabia Harmanşah

Rabia Harmanşah

Mapping the Forgotten Landscape: People, Power and Belonging—the case of the Island of Imbros

Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies (Spring 2023)

David Hertzberg

David Hertzberg

Musician in Residence (Spring 2023)

Kathryn E. Holliday

Kathryn E. Holliday

Telephone City: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Rise and Fall of the Bell Monopoly

Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies

Rong Huang

Rong Huang

The Luminous Wind Fanned the East: A Comparative Study of the East Syriac Christian Documents in China (618–907)

William R. Tyler Fellow in Byzantine Studies

David Karmon

David Karmon

Renaissance Architecture and Natural History

Garden and Landscape Studies Fellow

Ioannis Kyriakantonakis

Ioannis Kyriakantonakis

A Study on Seventeenth-Century Religious Dynamics: The Traces of Kigalas Family

I Tatti–Dumbarton Oaks Joint Fellow for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (Spring 2023)

Gwendolyn Lockman

Gwendolyn Lockman

Greening a Copper City: Parks, Mining, and Community in Butte, Montana, 1876–2022

Garden and Landscape Studies Junior Fellow

Sarah Loomis

Sarah Loomis

A Monumental Blaze of Glory: An Osteological Analysis of Human Remains from Los Guachimontones, Jalisco, Mexico

William R. Tyler Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies

Justin Anthony Mann

Justin Anthony Mann

Assembling a Monastic Landscape: Structures of Authority, Economy, and the Sacred in Middle Byzantine Greece

Byzantine Art and Archaeology Postdoctoral Fellow

Kyra March

Kyra March

Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and the National Gallery of Art

Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow

Ivan Marić

Ivan Marić

Iconoclast Imperial Authority and its Contested Legacy. The Politics of Memory in Constantinople during Iconoclast Period (717-867)

Byzantine Coins Postdoctoral Fellow

Lizzie McCord

Lizzie McCord

Postgraduate Curatorial Fellow

Mallory A. Melton

Mallory A. Melton

Feeding the Urban Experiment: Preclassic Agroforestry Systems of Pacific Guatemala (900 BCE-100 CE)

Pre-Columbian Studies Fellow

Lucas Mertehikian

Lucas Mertehikian

Plant Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

Peter Milo

Peter Milo

Byzantine Influences on the Urban Development of the Early Medieval Bulgarian Capitals Pliska and Preslav: A Comparative Study Based on Geophysical, Archaeological, and Historical Sources

Byzantine Studies Fellow (Fall 2022)

Andrea Nanetti

Andrea Nanetti

News About the Byzantines in the Venetian Diaries: Extracts from the Diarii by Antonio Morosini, Giorgio and Piero Dolfin, and Domenico Malipiero dated between 1402 (Battle of Ankara) and 1461 (Fall of Trebizond)

Byzantine Studies Fellow

Idabelle Paterson

Idabelle Paterson

Contributing to institutional humanities initiatives at Dumbarton Oaks and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow

Daniel Reynolds

Daniel Reynolds

Edges of Empire: Byzantine Palaestina and Arabia

Byzantine Studies Fellow (Spring 2023)

Manuel ‘Saga’ Sánchez García

Manuel ‘Saga’ Sánchez García

Uncovering Colonial Lawscape: A Comparative Study of Legal Documents and Landscape Depictions of the Spanish Empire from the 16th to the 18th Centuries

Garden and Landscape Studies Fellow

Anna Lise Seastrand

Anna Lise Seastrand

Trees and the Ecologies of Sacred Art in Southern India

Garden and Landscape Studies Fellow

Katherine Taronas

Katherine Taronas

The Master of Animals in Late Antiquity: Art and the Exegesis of Nature

Byzantine Studies Fellow

Lauren Toman

Lauren Toman

Exploring the intersection of art, culture, power, and philanthropy in Washington, DC

Postgraduate Cultural Philanthropy Fellow

Günder Varinlioğlu

Günder Varinlioğlu

Isaurian Stonecutters at Work: the Late Antique Quarry Industry on Dana Island (Turkey)

Byzantine Studies Fellow

Lev Weitz

Lev Weitz

Egyptian Monasticism Under Islam: The Arabic Documents of Dayr al-Naqlun

Byzantine Studies Fellow

Hayley B. Woodward

Hayley B. Woodward

The Codex Xolotl: The Visual Discourse of Place and History in Early Colonial Mexico

Pre-Columbian Studies Junior Fellow

Mustafa Yıldız

Mustafa Yıldız

Late Byzantine Medicine in the Face of Black Death: A Study of Intellectual History and Medical Practice

Byzantine Studies Junior Fellow