We are delighted to announce the selection of fellows in our three areas of study: Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian Studies, as well as the Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies. This summer, fifteen fellows join us to research topics including lost and forgotten Byzantine manuscripts, an archaeological study of a Black cemetery in Georgetown, and Mesoamerican religion and Latinx spirituality.
During the 2022–2023 academic year, we are delighted host over forty fellows who will be studying questions such as how the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden was engaged in empire-building in the Netherlands East Indies, what we are learning from the excavations of Kaminaljuyu, and how an ancient Greco-Roman theater performed in medieval Byzantine visual culture. Additionally, our Mellon Fellows study urban landscapes through lenses of democracy, race, identity, and difference.
Summer 2022 Fellows
Byzantine Studies
Ralf Bockmann, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Germany
Renate Burri, University of Bern
René de Nicolay, Universität Zürich
Prolet Decheva, University College Dublin, Ireland
Mariusz Gwiazda, University of Warsaw, Poland
Markéta Kulhánková, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Alex MacFarlane, University of Oxford
Louis-Patrick St-Pierre, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
Mellon Summer Fellowships in Urban Humanities
Alissa Diamond, University of Virginia, Mellon Summer Fellowship in Urban Humanities
Jennifer Hock, Maryland Institute College of Art, Mellon Summer Fellowship in Urban Humanities
Delande Justinvil, American University, Mellon Summer Fellowship in Urban Humanities
Amanda Martin-Hardin, Columbia University, Mellon Summer Fellowship in Urban Humanities
Pre-Columbian Studies
Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato, Harvard Divinity School
Victor Emmanuel Salazar Chavez, George Washington University
Matthias Urban, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Tubingen, Germany
2022–2023 Academic Year Fellows
Byzantine Studies
William Adler, North Carolina State University
Peter Milo, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Andrea Nanetti, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Daniel Reynolds, University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Katherine Taronas, Kenyon College
Gunder Varinlioglu, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Lev Weitz, Catholic University of America
Garden and Landscape Studies
Luthfi Adam, Monash University Indonesia
Brian Bockelman, Ripon College
David Karmon, College of the Holy Cross
Anna Lise Seastrand, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies
Ashon Crawley, University of Virginia
Claire Dunning, University of Maryland, College Park
Rabia Harmansah, University of Cologne, Germany
Kathryn Holliday, University of Texas at Arlington
Pre-Columbian Studies
Barbara Arroyo, Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquin
Timothy Beach, University of Texas at Austin
Allison Caplan, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mallory Melton, University of California, Santa Barbara
Flora Clancy Fellowship in Maya Studies for Latin American Researchers
Adolfo Ivan Batun-Alpuche, Universidad de Oriente
I Tatti–Dumbarton Oaks Joint Fellowship for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Ioannis Kyriakantonakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & Hellenic Open University
Musicians in Residence
inti figgis-vizueta (fall term)
David Hertzberg (spring term)
Artist in Residence
Lungiswa Gqunta
2022–2023 Junior Fellows
Byzantine Studies
Peter Boudreau, McGill University, Canada
Guilhem Dorandeu-Bureu, Université de Paris 1 Pantheon, Sorbonne
Elena Gittleman, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Mustafa Yıldız, University of California, Berkeley
Garden and Landscape Studies
Gwendolyn Lockman, University of Texas at Austin
Manuel Sanchez Garcia, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Pre-Columbian Studies
Hayley Woodward, Tulane University
Nicholas Brown, Yale University
2022–2023 Tyler Fellows
Byzantine Studies
Chance Bonar, Harvard University
Rong Huang, Harvard University
Garden and Landscape Studies
Amy Chang, Harvard University
Pre-Columbian Studies
Annick Benavides, Harvard University
Sarah Loomis, Harvard University
Project Grants
Byzantine Studies
Georgios Deligiannakis, “The Church Excavation Project in the Asklepieion Area of Ancient Messene”
Alexander Fantalkin, “Geophysical Exploration at the Byzantine City of Ashdod-Yam"
Jordan Pickett, “RC14 Dating of Byzantine Fortifications on the Acropolis at Sardis"
Joseph Williams, “Byzantine Dome Construction in South Italy as Transcultural Knowledge”
Garden and Landscape Studies
Jennifer Steverson, “African American Textiles as an Expression of Place”
Pre-Columbian Studies
Whittaker Schroder, University of Florida
Heather Hurst, Skidmore College (from 2020, extended to June 30, 2022)
Visit our Fellowship Community in the fall to learn more about the fellows and their projects.