Garden and Landscape Studies

Science and the Settler State

Caitlin Blanchfield studies the contested landscapes of scientific research structures in North America

Araucania-Patagonia’s Indigenous Landscape

Rodrigo Booth studies the transformation of the ancestral land of the Mapuche people

Learning from Colonial Plants

Marlis Hinckley tracks the translation of Indigenous Mexican plants and plant knowledge to sixteenth-century Europe

The Lion in the Garden

Lihong Liu traces the history and art historiographical significance of the Lion Grove Garden in Suzhou across dynasties

Learning from Louisiana’s Wetlands

Diane Allen brings the legacy of Maroon communities that lived in New Orleans’s bayous to wetlands restoration projects

Social Fragmentation and Antebellum Cemeteries

Aaron Wunsch examines landscapes of social fragmentation in antebellum Philadelphia

Hope and Resilience in Milwaukee

Arijit Sen documents the physical and social landscape of Milwaukee’s North Side through the experiences of its residents

Gender, Gardens, and Mughal Art

Mika Natif complicates patriarchal histories of the Mughal Empire through depictions of Mughal women and gardens

Place-Making in the Pacific Northwest

Marianna Davison studies how early landscape design in Seattle contributed to the erasure of the region’s Indigenous place-histories

Healthy Living During the Counter-Reformation

Katherine M. Bentz considers the history of Italian villas beyond architecture

Planning the Postwar Status Quo

Lizabeth Wardzinski traces the postwar reach of American urban and regional planning

Baboons, Hyenas, and Slow Science

Erika Milam investigates the role of landscape in decades-long scientific projects

Volcanic Stone, Renaissance Fun Houses

Katherine Coty reimagines Italian villa gardens as experiments with the local landscape

Forced Labor in the Americas

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

Placemaking with Plants

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