2020

Loa Traxler synthesizes what the physical remains of a dynastic founder reveal about the Classic Maya world and interactions with Teotihuacan

James Almeida studies enslavement, racial ideology, and labor history in the Andes and at Dumbarton Oaks

Héléna Rochard reassesses one of the largest corpora of monastic wall paintings in Early Byzantium

Six new releases in a project to make classic books more accessible

Robust virtual scholarly programming and internships developed for the summer months

Dimiter Angelov studies geography in twelfth-century Constantinople and translates texts on philosophy, friendship, and Hellenic identity

Lindi Masur puts seeds under the microscope to find new evidence for indigenous food production and landscape management

Costas Constantinides catalogues a rare manuscript collection ranging from medieval textbooks to works by classical poets and orators

Warren Woodfin presents six centuries of cross-referencing Orthodox ritual and heavenly iconography

Thomas Arentzen searches for Byzantine trees that interacted with humans and the divine

Eurydice Georganteli reveals the crucial importance of the Via Egnatia to European and world heritage

Folger Before “Farm to Table” team visits the Plant Humanities Initiative

Philip Gant studies legal implications of the Buddhist temple as critical infrastructure

Ann Komara digs deep into a celebrated nineteenth-century park transformed from a quarry site

Brad Boswell on how a fifth-century treatise out-narrates a rival

Patricia Vigderman encounters startling contradictions in Rome

Lewis Hyde talks butterflies, Buddhism, and the problem of the unforgettable

Zeus is destiny (and other keys to understanding Homer)

Patrick Mullins sees diversity, conflict, politics, and coca in an ancient frontier landscape