2019

Encore from an Early-Career Musician in Residence

Robyn Bollinger reflects on researching the history of musical dessert

The Park as Evolutionary Art

Heidi Hohmann charts 150 years of parkways, playground instructors, and change in Minneapolis

The Bishop versus the Emperor

Matthew Crawford works on the first English translation of a surprising treatise from late antique Alexandria

The Pope’s Ghostwriter

Evangelos Chrysos describes how a ninth-century papal advisor used the world’s largest forgery to fuel a culture clash

Reflecting on Landscapes of Enslavement

Mellon award recipients discuss the 2019 Garden and Landscape Studies colloquium

Building on the Body

Saburo Sugiyama explains ritual construction, human sacrifices, and a missing zoo at Teotihuacan

Behind the Scenes: Beaming a Book to the Internet

Librarians preserve 500 years of history with keen eyes and sharp knives

Reconstructing What Is Lost

Arianna Gullo uses sixth-century epigrams to better understand Byzantine art history

Lost Murals at Chichen Itza

María Teresa Uriarte highlights remarkable women in the history of Pre-Columbian archaeology

When Pre-Raphaelite Meets Water Crowfoot

Sarah Mead Leonard searches for the plants and landscapes that shaped William Morris

Dancing Sickness and Burial Removal

Scotti Norman conducts the first archaeological investigation into the 1560s Taki Onqoy movement

Big Data Tells Intimate Stories

A Byzantine art historian, a palace servant, and new acquisitions to a celebrated seal collection

Eco-Friendly Fountains

New UV light filters protect water wildlife and preserve historic garden

Suffering in the Garden

Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn introduces Gethsemane, extinct fruit trees, and more

The Missing People of Crete

Vera Klontza-Jaklova develops a method to find remnants of the island’s Arabic period

Holy Boldness

Erin Galgay Walsh investigates the surprising role of the female body in early Christian poetry

Walking the Space of Time

Trent Barnes examines the influence of Teotihuacan across centuries and over thousands of kilometers

The Mystery of the Pink Pineapple

How a team of scholars uncovered the lost history of a rare Southeast Asian book

Slavery and Central Park

Sara Zewde assesses the legacy of a founding figure in landscape architecture

Little Kings

Alexandre Tokovinine shifts focus to smaller Maya kingdoms with big impacts