Writing Byzantine History After Mantzikert
Eric McGeer offers public lecture discussing the Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes, honoring John Nesbitt
Probing New Histories in Plainwares
Beth Grávalos uncovers new Recuay histories by analyzing plainware ceramics
Healthy Living During the Counter-Reformation
Katherine M. Bentz considers the history of Italian villas beyond architecture
Transmitting Change in Maya Hieroglyphs
Mallory Matsumoto studies classic Maya sociocultural history through paleographic changes
Four Rare Book Acquisitions Build on Early Colonial Holdings
New acquisitions contribute to linguistic, religious, and legal studies of early colonial Mexico
Embodying Sacred Aztec Knowledge
Patrick Hajovsky reorients the forms of knowledge embodied in Aztec sculpture
Unlocking the Museum Vaults Virtually
Virtual collections storage visits reach nearly 300 students around the world
Deciphering Sacred Figures
John Cotsonis (Bishop Joachim of Amissos) wrestles with a corpus of anonymous Byzantine lead seals in a new catalogue from Dumbarton Oaks Publications
The Office of Holy Communion
Stefanos Alexopoulos studies expressions of private Byzantine eucharistic piety and how it intersects with public worship
Planning the Postwar Status Quo
Lizabeth Wardzinski traces the postwar reach of American urban and regional planning
Textiles and Hagia Sophia Restorations
Ilgin Nas catalogues comprehensive research on Hagia Sophia restorations
Feeling Texts in Place
Sarah F. Porter asks how Antioch’s deathscapes felt
Montezuma in the Popular Imagination
Norman Storer Corrada uses ephemera to challenge representations of Montezuma
Singers and Lesser-Known Premieres at Dumbarton Oaks
Daniel Boomhower discusses the 1950 premieres of two compositions by Samuel Barber, and the links between Dumbarton Oaks and the New York Metropolitan Opera
Baboons, Hyenas, and Slow Science
Erika Milam investigates the role of landscape in decades-long scientific projects
Syrian Refugees and Women Photographers
Isabella Beroutsos makes research in cultural heritage and art history widely accessible
Hagia Sophia Meets Plaster Casts
Flavia Vanni makes the case for analyzing a material that has persisted from antiquity to today
Dumbarton Oaks Acquires Important Works Contributing to Study of the Nahua Language and the Natural History of Mexico
Studying Classics in Byzantium
Baukje van den Berg studies how the Byzantines used ancient literature for teaching grammar and rhetoric
Female Characters and Narrative Subordination
Matthew Kinloch examines the textual logics and hierarchies of gender of Byzantine historiographical narratives