All Scholars

Biography of a Cultural Route

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

Of Landscape and Lawsuits

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

Picturesque Public Parks in Paris

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

Angels, Demons, and Narrative Conflict

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

Antiquities in the Electrical Plant

Patricia Vigderman encounters startling contradictions in Rome

Hunting for Butterflies

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

Surveying the Borderland

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

Tracking Ancient Immigration through Teeth

Gina Buckley looks for skeletal traces of elite and working-class immigration at Teotihuacan

Peripheral Lands, Contested Histories

Zeynep Kezer studies Elazığ, Tunceli, and the making of modern Turkey from the margins

Eastern Knowledge, Latin Letters

John Mulhall finds medieval translators who sought to remedy Latin deficiency with Greek and Arabic texts

From Paradise to Pompeii

Annette Giesecke finds Near Eastern inspiration for luxurious ancient Roman gardens

A Typology of Gifts

Daniel Caner untangles dirty wealth, fruit-bearings, and Christian philanthropy

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