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
Planning the Postwar Status Quo
Lizabeth Wardzinski traces the postwar reach of American urban and regional planning
The Office of Holy Communion
Stefanos Alexopoulos studies expressions of private Byzantine eucharistic piety and how it intersects with public worship
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
Digitally Traversing Global Plant Histories
Virtual Plant Humanities Summer Program brought diverse disciplines, resources, and scholars together to create timely plant narratives
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
Reviving an Eighth-Century Coptic Chronicle
Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga shifts our understanding of what constitutes a Byzantine person
Baboons, Hyenas, and Slow Science
Erika Milam investigates the role of landscape in decades-long scientific projects