Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Garden and Landscape Studies

• Aleksandar Shopov (Harvard University, Spring), “Ottoman Horticultural Science and Practice, 1453­–1669”

Summer Fellows

2002–2003

Fellows

• Margaret Flanders Darby (Colgate University), “The Victorian Glasshouse”
• Yizhar Hirschfeld (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Landscape Architecture, Horticulture, and Society: A Classical Legacy in Late Antiquity”

Junior Fellows

• Katherine M. Bentz (Pennsylvania State University), “Cardinal Cesi's Garden: Antiquities, Landscape, and Social Identity in Early Modern Rome”
• Rachel Iannacone (Instituto de Investigaciones, Esteticas, Mexico, University of Pennsylvania), “Open Space for the Underclass: New York City's Small Parks (1880–1915)”

Summer Fellows

• Kristóf Fatsar (Szent István University, Budapest), “Delicate Liaisons: Social Network of Gardeners in the Eighteenth Century”
• Anna Olenska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), “Sense of Nature and Landscape in Baroque Gardens of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century in Poland”

2001–2002

Fellows

• Nurhan Atasoy (Istanbul University, Spring), “The Emergence of Floral Design in Ottoman Art and Ottoman Garden”
• Joseph Disponzio (Harvard University), “Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention of Landscape Architecture”
• Barbara Kenda (University of Notre Dame), “Grotto-Architecture of Villa Garzadori-da Schio”
• Marina Moskowitz (University of Glasgow, Spring), “Seed Money: The Economies of Gardening in Nineteenth-Century America”
• Hui Zou (McGill University), “Jing of the Xiyang Lou: A Perspective Garden in the Garden of Perfect Brightness”

Fellow In Residence

• James Dickie (Fellow in residence in Granada), “The Alhambra in Focus”

Special Garden Archeology Fellow

• Amina-Aïcha Malek (EHESS, Paris), “The Sense of Nature in Roman-African Domus, Second–Fifth Centuries”

Summer Fellows

• Giovanna Alberta Campitelli (Sovraintendenza Beni Culturali, Rome), “The Genesis and the Models for Villa Borghese in Rome”
• Irma Patricia Diaz Cayeros (Instituto de Investigaciones, Esteticas, Mexico), “Between Decoration and Symbolism: The Use of Knot Motives in Puebla Cathedral Choir Stalls and its Connection with Garden Designs”
• Paul Smith (University of Sussex), “The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial: A Cultural Production”
• Boris Sokolov (Russian State University for the Humanities), “Western Tradition in Russian Garden Art: Models and Transformations”

2000–2001

Fellows

• Leigh-Ann Bedal (University of Pennsylvania), “Of Politics and Paradise: The History and Meaning Behind Petra’s Paradeiso”
• Catherine Benoit (Guadeloupe, French West Indies), “African American Gardens in the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States”
• Tracy L. Ehrlich (Colgate University, Fall), “Family and Papacy in the Roman Countryside: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era”
• Erik A. de Jong (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Spring), “Sublime Landscape. Presenting the Unpresentable: A Project for a Monument Dedicated to Napoleon in the Alpine Scenery of the Mont Cenis from 1813”
• Victoria Siu (University of San Francisco), “The Evolution of the Yuanming Yuan: Diverse Cultures in an Eighteenth-Century Imperial Chinese Garden”

Junior Fellow

• Philip Hu (New York University), “Mi Wangzhong (1570–1628): An Artist and Patron in Late Ming China. The Gardens of Mi Wangzhong as Social and Cultural Nodes in Late Ming Beijing”

Special Garden Archeology Fellow

• Amina-Aïcha Malek (EHESS, Paris), “The Sense of Nature in Roman-African Domus, Second–Fifth Centuries”

Summer Fellows

• Margaret Flanders Darby (Colgate University), “Women Under Glass: Ideologies of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Conservatory Gardening Literature”
• Margherita Azzi Visentini (Politecnico de Milano), “The Borromean Islands on the Lago Maggiore”

1999–2000

Fellows

• Shirine Hamadeh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Ottoman-European Shared Sensibilities: The Eighteenth-Century Picturesque”
• Linda B. Parshall (Portland State University), “The Green Prince of Germany: The Gardens of Puckler-Muskau and the Late Romantic Landscape”
• Betsey Robinson (University of Pennsylvania), “Fountains and the Culture of Water at Roman Corinth”

1998–1999

Fellows

• Giorgio Galletti (Florence, Italy), “Proposal to Develop the Framework for a Long-Term Management Strategy for the Protection and Conservation of the Medici Landscape along the Arno River Valley from Florence to Pistoia”
• Elizabeth K. Meyer (University of Virginia School of Architecture, Spring), “The Margins of Modernity: Theories and Practices of Modern Landscape Architecture”

Junior Fellows

• George Dodds (University of Pennsylvania), “An Extended Landscape for Living: The Garden Art of Carlo Scarpa”
• Laura J. Lawson (University of California, Berkeley), “Urban Gardening Programs in the United States: A History of Ethics, Economics, and Community”

Summer Fellows

• Nebahat Avcioglu (Cambridge, England), “The Visual Discourse of Turkish Architecture in the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Gardens: Vauxhall and Kew Gardens Revisited”
• Anne L. Helmreich (Texas Christian University), “Our England is a Garden: National Identity and the Garden in England, 1870–1914”
• Neil M. Maher (New York University), “Planting More Than Trees: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement, 1929–1945”

1997–1998

Fellow

• Scott Redford (Georgetown University), “Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia”

Junior Fellows

• Vittoria Di Palma (Columbia University), “The Science of Aesthetics in Eighteenth-Century Landscape Design”
• David Hays (Yale University), “The Irregular Garden in Eighteenth-Century France”

Summer Fellows

• Mahvash Alemi (Rome, Italy), “The Graphical Restoration of the Royal Gardens of the Safavid Period in Isfahan in the Light of the Drawings of Engelbert Kaempfer”
• Louis Cellauro (Saint Fons, France), “The Muses, Mount Parnassus, and Renaissance Gardens”
• Lauro Magnani (University of Genova, Italy), “The Genoese Garden Inside the European Context During the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Grottos, ‘Ninfei’ and Decorating Items”

1996–1997

Fellows

• Angela M. Blake (The American University, Washington, D.C.), “This is New York! Landscapes of the Metropolis, 1890–1931”
• Yizhar Hirschfeld (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Rural Settlement in Roman-Byzantine Palestine”
• Louise A. Mozingo (University of California, Berkeley), “Corporate Office Parks in the United States”
• Erik H. Neil (Tulane University), “Status and Distinction: The Villa Culture of Sicily in the Early Modern Period”
• Richard E. Quaintance, Jr. (Rutgers University), “Politics in English Landscaping from 1725 to 1775”

1995–1996

Junior Fellows

• Joseph Disponzio (Columbia University), “Jean-Marie Morel and the French Picturesque”
• Elizabeth Dean Hermann (Harvard University), “Urbanism and Landscape as Reflection and Symbol of Social, Political, and Environmental Change in Fourteenth-Century Nasrid Granada”
• Barbara Lynn-Davis (Princeton University), “Landscape Architecture and Landscapes of the Imagination in Renaissance Venice”
• Rebecca Williamson (University of Pennsylvania), “Use and Pleasure: Practice and Theory in Late Eighteenth-Century Veneto Architecture and Landscape Architecture”

Summer Fellows

• David H. Haney (Yale University), “Scenic Illusions: Pursuing Nature at Acadia”
• Abdul Rehman (University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan), “Garden City Relationship of Mughal Lahore: An Enquiry through Early Seventeenth-Century Sources”
• Ada V. Segre (University of York), “Plan and Planting Design of a Mid-Seventeenth-Century Giardino di Fiori in Northern Italy”

1994–1995

Fellows

• Gert Gröning (Hochschule der Künste Berlin), “Aspects of the Mutual Influence in the History of Urban Public Parks in the United States and Germany”
• Mark Laird (Toronto, Canada), “Ornamental Planting Design in English Pleasure Grounds, 1700–1830”

Junior Fellows

• Dianne Harris (University of California, Berkeley), “Lombardia Illuminata: The Formation of an Enlightenment Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy”
• Marcus R. Köhler (Freie Universität Berlin), “Johann Busch (ca. 1725–1795), Gardener of the Court of Catharine II of Russia”

Summer Fellows

• Tracy L. Ehrlich (Columbia University), “The Villa Mondragone and Seventeenth-Century Villeggiatura at Frascati”
• Christopher Vernon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Wilhelm Miller and Walter Burley Griffin: The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Architecture”
• Robin Whalley (Bath College of Higher Education), “The Gardens of Harold Peto (1854–1933) and the Impact of the Renaissance on British Garden Design, ca. 1900–1914”

1993–1994

Fellows

• Julia A. King (St. Mary's College of Maryland), “Landscape and the Use of History in Nineteenth-Century America”
• Charles McLaughlin (The American University), “Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903)”

Junior Fellows

• Tracy L. Ehrlich (Columbia University), “The Villa Mondragone and Seventeenth-Century Villeggiatura at Frascati”
• Marguerite S. Shaffer (Harvard University), “See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1905–1939”

Summer Fellows

• Joseph Disponzio (Columbia University), “The Eighteenth-Century French Landscape Designer and Theorist, Jean-Marie Morel”
• Elizabeth Hyde (Harvard University), “The Flowering of Early Modern French Culture”
• Denis B. Walker (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand), “The Text of Place: Nostalgia and the Other as Spatial Representation in Garden Design”

1992–1993

Fellows

• Grey Gundaker (Yale University), “Working My Yard: Private Sanctuary and Public Display in African-American Yards and Gardens”
• Erik A. de Jong (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), “A Book of Garden Designs from 1592 for Emperor Rudolf II in the Collection of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Library: Hans Puechfeldners Nüssliches Khünstbuch der Gardtnerij”

Junior Fellows

• Timothy Mark Davis (University of Texas, Austin), “The Road Nobody Knows: Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway as a Case Study in Urban Landscape Design”
• Anne L. Helmreich (Northwestern University), “Representations of Gardens and Concepts of Englishness, 1880–1914”

Summer Fellows

• Kurt Culbertson (Aspen, Colorado), “The German Influence in the Development of American Landscape Architecture”
• Jody Hoppe (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Petrus Crescentius’ Livres des Proffits Champêtres et Ruraux”
• Suzanne Louise Turner (Louisiana State University), “Window to the Nineteenth-Century American City: The New Orleans Notarial Archives Drawings”

1991–1992

Fellows

• Alistair Craig Clunas (Victoria and Albert Museum), “The Gardens of the Wen Family: Ownership, Depiction, and Description in Suzhou, 1500–1650”
• Edward S. Harwood (Bates College), “Leaping the Fence: The English Landscape Garden and the Eighteenth Century”
• Alexandra H. Wilkinson (London, England), “Ancient Egyptian Gardens: Landscape and Symbolism”
• Terence Young (University of California, Los Angeles), “California Landscape Design and Its Relation to the Production of Ornamental Plants, 1860–1930”

Summer Fellow

• Raymond Gastil (Princeton University), “Secret Poetry and Public Good: The Gardens of Giuseppe Jappelli”

1990–1991

Fellows

• C. Allan Brown (Charlottesville, Virginia), “The Villa Garden in Jefferson’s Virginia, 1790–1830”
• Norris Brock Johnson (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “The Dragon's Gate: Tenryu Temple and Garden, Kyoto, Japan”

Junior Fellow

• Rebecca W. Davidson (Cornell University), “The Italian Garden in America”

Summer Fellows

• Susan Ford (University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire), “Gender Space and the Victorian Suburban Garden, 1800–1870”
• Margherita Azzi Visentini (Politecnico di Milano), “Nineteenth-Century Gardens of the Veneto: Their Sources, their Influence”
• Alexandra Wilkinson (Georgetown University), “Gardens in Ancient Egypt: Horticulture and Religious Symbolism”

1989–1990

Fellows

• William Tishler (The University of Wisconsin), “The Life and Work of H. W. S. Cleveland: A Pioneer of American Landscape Architecture”
• Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (University of Hannover), “The ‘Wild Garden’ and the ‘Nature Garden’: A Comparison between the Garden Concepts of William Robinson and Willy Lange”

Junior Fellows

• Stephen Bending (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge), “The Inscription of Politics in English Gardens and their Literature in the Later Eighteenth Century”
• Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Brown University), “Landscape as Myth: The Contextual Archaeology of an Annapolis Landscape”
• Franco Panzini (Rome, Italy), “Green Spaces in the Context of Urban Growth: From the Court Garden to the Public Park”

Summer Fellows

• Mahvash Alemi (Rome, Italy), “Safavid Gardens and their Urban Context”
• Philippe Forêt (University of Chicago), “Garden Architecture at the Manchu Court”
• Judith Major (University of Kansas), “A. J. Downing’s Theory of Landscape Gardening”

1988–1989

Fellows

• Mark Laird (Chelsea Physic Gardens), “Ornamental Planting in the Landscape Garden: 1730–1830”
• Nicholas Purcell (St. John's College, Oxford), “The Gardens of Rome: Culture, Society, and Economy of the Periphery of Ancient Rome”

Junior Fellows

• Donna M. Salzer (Harvard University), “Galeazzo Alessi’s Work as a Landscape Architect, Site Planner, and Engineer”
• Sara M. Wages (University of Maryland), “Dutch Paintings of Gardens in the Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century: Fact and Fiction”

Summer Fellows

• Ferdinand Anders (University of Vienna), “The Gardens of Archduke Maximilian—Precursors, Prototypes, Imitations: A Contribution to the Landscape Architecture of the Nineteenth Century”
• Bettina Bergman (Mount Holyoke College), “Coast and Grove: Architectural Landscapes in Roman Painting”
• Sonia Berjman (University of Buenos Aires), “The Work of French Landscape Architects at Buenos Aires and Montevideo”

1987–1988

Fellows

• Michel Baridon (University of Dijon), “Garden Architecture and the Scientific Imagination: The Transition from the French to the English Type of Landscape Gardening”
• Claudia Lazzaro (Cornell University), “Garden in Renaissance Italy: Art in Nature”
• John Pinto, “Hadrian’s Villa New Tivoli and its Artistic Legacy”
• Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi (University of Pisa), “Naturalistic Representation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe”

Summer Fellow

• Mariette de Vos (Rome, Italy), “Grottoes and Painted Gardens: Landscape in Imperial Rome”

1986–1987

Fellows

• Linda B. Parshall (Portland State University), “Christian C. L. Hirschfeld and the Landscape Garden in Eighteenth-Century Germany”
• Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti (Rome, Italy), “The Influence of Archaeological Interest on Sixteenth-Century Gardening”
• Ellen S. Smart (Saunderstown, Rhode Island), “Mughal Painting as a Source for Determining Plant Materials Used in Mughal Gardens”

Summer Fellow

• Margherita Azzi Visentini (Università di Padua), “Venetian Gardens between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”

1985–1986

Junior Fellows

• Christine Häuber (Cologne University), “The Garden of Maecenas and Lamia on the Esquiline in Rome: Topography, History, and Sculpture Findings”
• Margaret G. H. MacLean (University of California, Berkeley), “Sacred Land, Sacred Water: Inca Landscape Planning in the Machu Picchu Area”
• Susan B. Taylor (University of Pennsylvania), “Hubert Robert and the Baths of Apollo at Versailles”

Summer Fellows

• Vivian Rich (Victoria, B.C.), “Sir Edwin Lutyens, Viceroy's House Garden: Its Origins and its Influences”
• James L. Wescoat, Jr. (University of Chicago), “From Bagh-i-Gul Afishan to the Gardens of the Taj: The Evolution of a River Garden Landscape”

1984–1985

Fellows

• Robert I. Curtis (University of Georgia), “Piscina Romana: Fish Pools in Roman Landscape Design”
• John Dixon Hunt (University of Leiden), “Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600–1700”

Junior Fellow

• Leonard N. Amico (Yale University), “Bernard Palissy and the French Reformation: A Social, Intellectual, and Cultural History”

Summer Fellow

• Leonard N. Amico

1983–1984

Junior Fellows

• Leonard N. Amico (Yale University), “Bernard Palissy and the French Reformation: A Social, Intellectual, and Cultural History”
• Claudia Lazzaro (Cornell University), “Rustic Villa to Refined Farmhouse: The Evolution and Migration of an Architectural Form”
• Amy W. Meyers (Yale University), “Sketches from the Wilderness: Changing Conceptions of Nature in American Natural History Illustrations, 1680–1880”
• Robert E. H. Williams (University of London), “Lapidary Inscriptions in Italian and English Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Gardens”

Summer Fellows

• Graeme Moore, “Harold Peto’s Designs for English Gardens”
• Nancy Volkman (Texas A & M University), “Horace William Shaler Cleveland: His Work and the Persistence of Design”

1982–1983

Associate Fellow

• Charles McLaughlin (American University), “The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted”

Junior Fellows

• Ann Friedman (Bryn Mawr College), “The ‘Grande Commande’ for the Sculpture of the Parterre d'eau at Versailles, 1672–1683”
• Therese O'Malley (University of Pennsylvania), “The National Mall: Art and Science in American Landscape Architecture”
• Marianne Ruggiero (Brown University), “The Development of the Picturesque Garden in the Veneto, 1780–1830”

Summer Fellow

• Vanessa Bezemer (Leiden University), “French Influence on Late Seventeenth-Century Dutch Garden Art (Clingendaell)”

1981–1982

Associate Fellow

• Charles McLaughlin (American University), “Frederick Law Olmsted”

Fellow

• Wilhelmina Jashemski (University of Maryland), “The Gardens of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Villas Destroyed by Vesuvius”

Junior Fellow

• Constance Lee (Brown University), “Gardens and Gods: Jacopo Galli, Michelangelo’s Bacchus, and their Art Historical Settings”

1979–1980

Fellows

• Richard Etlin (University of Kentucky), “Cities of the Dead: From Charnel House to Elysium in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
• Diane Kostial McGuire (Harvard University), “Beatrix Farrand’s Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks”

1978–1979

Junior Fellows

• Miroslava Marie Benes (Yale University), “Scenographia politia all'aperto: Gardens and Theater Design in Northern Italy, 1650–1730”
• George Gorse (Brown University), “The Palace of Andrea Doria in Fassolo-Genoa”
• Betsy Rosasco (New York University), “The Sculptures of the Chateau of Marly, during the Reign of Louis XIV”
• David Schuyler (Columbia University), “The Picturesque Landscape and the Re-Orientation of American Art, 1800–1860”

1977–1978

Junior Fellows

• George Gorse (Brown University), “The Palace of Andrea Doria in Fassolo-Genoa”
• Keith Morgan (Brown University), “Charles Adams Platt and the American Renaissance”
• David Schuyler (Columbia University), “Public Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America”

1976–1977

Junior Fellows

• Frank Alvarez (Columbia University), “Sixteenth-Century Garden Nymphaeums”
• Keith Morgan (Brown University), “Charles Adams Platt”

Visiting Scholar

• Naomi Miller (Boston University), “The Flowing Symbol: A Study of French Renaissance Fountains”

1975–1976

Junior Fellow

• Frank Alvarez (Columbia University), “Sixteenth-Century Garden Nymphaeums”

Matthew Kearney Summer Garden Fellows

• Dennis Dahlin (University of California, Berkeley), “Study of Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson”
• Nancy Stieber (University of Michigan), “Historic Preservation in the Netherlands”

Visiting Scholar

• Lionello Puppi (University of Padua and the Architectural Institute in Venice), “Picturesque Gardens in the Veneto”

1974–1975

Matthew Kearney Summer Garden Fellows

• Patricia O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley), “National Trust and the National Gardens Scheme in Great Britain”
• John Skibbe (Pennsylvania State University), “Andrew Jackson Downing and his Influence on the Layman’s Approach to Landscaping his Home”

Visiting Fellows

• Agnieszka Morawinska (University of Warsaw), “Study on the Subject of Modi, Eighteenth-Century Art Theory of Conventions of Mood and Expression, as Expressed in Garden Design and Decoration”
• Alan Tait (Glasgow University), “The Landscape Garden in Scotland”

Visiting Scholar

• Gerda Bollwitzer (Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten, Germany), “The Influence of Le Notre in the Gardens of Europe”

1973–1974

Fellow

• Suzanne Lang (Warwick University), “Garden Structures of English Landscape Gardens”

Junior Fellow

• Carolyn Lewis, “History of the Villa Pisani at Montagna; Nymphaeum of Palladio's Villa Barbaro at Maser”

Summer Fellows

• Eleanor McPeck (Harvard University)
• Michael Van Valkenburg (Cornell University)

Visiting Fellows

• Agnieszka Morawinska (University of Warsaw), “Study on the Subject of Modi, Eighteenth-Century Art Theory of Conventions of Mood and Expression, as Expressed in Garden Design and Decoration”

1972–1973

Fellow

• Marcia Allentuck (City College, City University of New York), “Aesthetic Theories of Sir Uvedale Price and their Influence on Landscape Architecture”

Summer Fellows

• Robert E. Cleary, Jr. (Harvard University)
• Allan D. Garnaas