All Scholars

Volcanic Stone, Renaissance Fun Houses

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

Reflections from an Early-Career Musician in Residence

Viet Cuong makes relatable the seemingly magical process of composing music

Globalization in Guinea Pig Bones

Sarah Kennedy establishes why food is key to understanding power, identity, and status in colonial Peru

Revolutionary Churches Hewn from Rock

Mikael Muehlbauer identifies medieval churches in Ethiopia that evoke a lost Byzantium

Ancient Pandemics Meet Climate Change

Michael McCormick combines science, archaeology, and history to solve puzzles from the past

Early Modern Armageddon

W. Sasson Chahanovich explains how the conquest of Constantinople kickstarted Ottoman enthusiasm for the end-times

The Rock Star of Encores

Robyn Bollinger revives the macabre Paganini, “The Hot Canary,” and other touchstones of an indulgent musical tradition

Finding Ancient Kings of Copan

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

Forced Labor in the Americas

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

Rediscovering Bawit

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

Repurposing Ancient Knowledge

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

Placemaking with Plants

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

Homer, Euripides, and Mount Athos

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

Bringing Heaven Into the Church

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

Trees That Heal and Fly

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