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Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Garden and Landscape Studies

The fellowship program in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks seeks a balance between historical research and investigations of current practice, between inquiries at the scale of the garden and those addressing larger landscapes.

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The program invites consideration of all aspects of this interdisciplinary and international field: agricultural, architectural, art historical, botanical, cultural, ecological, economic, geographical, horticultural, social, and technological. Fellows are encouraged to consider topics from a variety of perspectives, including design, patronage, iconography, ideology, reception, preservation, landscape performance, and user experience; and using methods from other relevant fields of the humanities (art and architectural history and criticism, literary studies, philosophy) and of the social sciences (social history, cultural geography, cultural studies, social anthropology). Complementing a traditional focus on garden history, the program invites research into the histories of landscape architecture and culturally-significant landscapes of all kinds.

Recently, following the award of a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks launched a new interdisciplinary fellowship program in urban landscape studies, which will involve new semester-long fellowships to be shared among designers and academics and shorter-term invitational residencies for senior practitioners. Learn more about the Mellon Democracy and Landscape Initiative.

 

1972–1980 | 1980–1990 | 1990–2000 | 2000–2010 | 2010–2020 | 2020–present

 

2023–2024

Visiting Scholar

  • Dell Upton (University of California, Los Angeles, spring)

Fellows

  • Olga Bush (Vassar College), "Extraction and Construction: The Ecology and Landscape Architecture of Madīnat al-Zahrā’ (Córdoba) in the Pan-Mediterranean Medieval Context"
  • Rosalyn LaPier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Kipitáaakii’s Garden"

Junior Fellows

  • Tomos Evans (College of William and Mary), "Through Trench, Shrine, and Sacred Forest: An Analysis of the Spiritual Landscape of the Sungbo’s Eredo Monumental Earthwork, Nigeria, AD 1400–1900"
  • Phoebe Springstubb (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “The Inhabited Arctic: Infrastructure, Ancestral Landscapes, and the Making of the Deep Past”
  • Alice Wolff (Cornell University), "The Beauty of the Field: Weeds in the Medieval Imagination and Landscape"

William R. Tyler Fellows

  • Walid Akef (Harvard University), "Munà, Ǧinān, and Basātīn. Periurban and Suburban Luxury Estates in Nasrid Granada (1238-1492)"
  • Rachel Burke (Harvard University), "Fugitive Grounds: Race, Landscape, and American Citizenship in Henry “Box” Brown’s Mirror of Slavery"
  • Amy Chang (Harvard University), “Architecture at the Edges of Empire: Islam, Asia, and the Interpretation of Architectural Inheritance in the Global Spanish Empire, 16th-17th centuries”

Mellon Democracy and Landscape Initiative Fellows

  • Maia Butler (University of North Carolina-Wilmington, fall term), "Floating Homelands: Postnational Imaginaries by Contemporary Black Women and Nonbinary Writers"
  • Carlyn Ferrari (Seattle University), "In Search of Their Gardens”
  • Andrew Friedman (Haverford College), "Capital Colony: Decolonization in the District of Columbia, 1944-1995"
  • Angelika Joseph (Princeton University), "Red Power Takeover: Native American Activists, Colonial Landscapes, and the Design of Sovereignty"
  • Kera Lovell (University of Utah, spring term), "The People’s Park: Work, Food, and the Built Environment in Radical Postwar Placemaking"

Mellon Democracy and Landscape Initiative Summer 2023 Fellows

  • Myles Ali (University of California-Merced), "Maritime Flight in West Africa: Slavery, Networks of Belonging, and the Making of Free Communities in the River Systems of Colonial Sierra Leone"
  • Amanda Faulkner (Columbia University), "Insiders and Outsiders: Individuals and Community in the Dutch Atlantic World"
  • Manoel Domingos Farias Rendeiro Neto (University of California at Davis), "Between Peasants and Slaves: (Un)Rooting Race, Ethnicity, and Labor in Amazonian Soils (1755 -1850)"
  • Jayson Porter (Brown University), "Guerrero Árido: Dry Tropical Forests as Biomes for Studying Race, Refuge, and Resource Extraction"

2022–2023

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2022–2023 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • Andrea Roberts, (University of Virginia, Spring)

Fellows

  • Luthfi Adam, (Northwestern University), “Cultivating Power: Botanic Gardens and Empire-Building in the Netherlands East Indies, 1745-1942”
  • Brian Bockelman, (Ripon College, Spring), "Palm Modernism (and its Critics) in Urban Landscape Architecture: From Old World to New, 1820s to 1920s"
  • Manuel ‘Saga’ Sánchez García, (Politecnico di Torino and Universidad de Granada), “Uncovering Colonial Lawscape: A Comparative Study of Legal Documents and Landscape Depictions in the Spanish Empire from the 16th to the 18th centuries”
  • David Karmon, (College of the Holy Cross), “Renaissance Architecture and Natural History”
  • Anna Lise Seastrand, (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), “Trees and the Ecologies of Sacred Art in South India”

Junior Fellows

  • Gwendolyn Lockman, (The University of Texas at Austin), “Recreation and Reclamation: Parks, Mining, and Community in Butte, Montana, 1876-2022”

William R. Tyler Fellows

  • Amy Chang, (Harvard University), “Architecture at the Edges of Empire: Islam, Asia, and the Interpretation of Architectural Inheritance in the Global Spanish Empire, 16th-17th centuries”

Mellon Democracy and Landscape Initiative Fellows

  • Ashon T. Crawley, (University of Virginia, Fall Term), " In Search of our Mothers' Gardens"
  • Claire Dunning, (University of Maryland, College Park, Spring Term), “Funding the Urban North: Policy, Philanthropy, and Racial Equity “After” Civil Rights”
  • Rabia Harmanşah, (University of Cologne, Spring Term) “Mapping the Forgotten Landscape: People, Power and Belonging”
  • Kathryn E. Holliday, (University of Texas at Arlington, Academic Year) “Telephone City: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Rise and Fall of the Bell Monopoly”

Mellon Summer Fellowships in Urban Humanities, “Landscapes of Civil and Human Rights

  • Alissa Diamond, (University of Virginia, Summer), “Entangled Histories for Indeterminate Futures: Racial Capitalisms, Resistances, and Space in Central Virginia”
  • Jennifer Hock, (Maryland Institute College of Art, Summer), “Breaking Ground: Activists and Experts Build the New Boston, 1960-1975”
  • Delande Justinvil, (American University, Summer), “Exhuming the Ex-Human: A Biocultural Investigation of  Black Remains in the Town of George
  • Amanda Martin-Hardin, (Columbia University, Summer), “Greenlining: Outdoor Recreation and Segregation in the United States

2021–2022

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2021–2022 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholars

  • Tom Conley (Harvard University, Spring), “A Translation: Olivier de Serres, Theatre d’agriculture et mesnage des champs (1600)”
  • Verena Andermatt Conley (Harvard University, Spring), “From the Colony to Ecology: Theory and Practice of the Jardin d’Essai du Hamma in Algiers”

Fellows

  • Diane Jones Allen (University of Texas at Arlington), “The Maroon Landscape: A Cultural Approach to Coastal Resiliency”
  • Rodrigo Booth (Universidad de Chile), “From Wallmapu to Northern Patagonia-Araucania: A Cultural History of the Landscape of Southern Chile and Argentina in the 19th and 20th Centuries”
  • Julia A. King (St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Spring), “Spatial Indigeneity: The Rappahannock Indian Communities of Virginia”
  • Lihong Liu (University of Rochester), “Garden, Painting, and Historiography”
  • Aaron Wunsch (University of Pennsylvania, Fall), “Separate Sanctuaries”

Junior Fellows

  • Caitlin Blanchfield (Columbia University), “Unsettling Colonial Science: Modern Architecture and Indigenous Claims to Land in North America, 1947–1993”
  • Marlis Hinckley (Johns Hopkins University), “Gardening and Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern New Spain and Mexico”
  • Olanrewaju Lasisi (College of William & Mary), “The Landscape of Power: A Historical Archaeology of Ijebu-Yoruba Palatial Urbanscapes, AD 1000–1900”

Mellon Fellows in Urban Landscape Studies

  • Elgin Cleckley (University of Virginia, Summer), “6D:  _mpathic Design for Race and Cultural Landscapes”
  • Sarah Lopez (University of Texas at Austin), “Architectural History Is Migrant History: The Development of a Binational Construction Industry from Below”
  • Pollyanna Rhee (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Summer), “Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1975”
  • Glenn LaRue Smith (Founder and Principal, PUSH Studio, LLC, Spring), “Out of the Shadows: Black Landscape Architects, 1898–1965”
  • Amber N. Wiley (Rutgers University), “‘The Revolution Continues’: The 1976 Bicentennial and the Black Heritage Movement”

Mellon History Teaching Fellows in Landscape Studies

  • Rosabella Alvarez-Calderón (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Fall), “Negotiating the Future of Prehispanic Landscapes in Contemporary Cities: Rethinking Ancient Sites as Free/Raw Space”
  • Anna Livia Brand (University of California, Berkeley, Summer), “Freedom Cartographies: Locating Racial Oppression and (Re)Tracing an Archive of Black Radical Imaginaries”
  • Farhan Karim (University of Kansas, Spring), “Landscape of Marginality: Bihari Refugee Camps of Dhaka, Bangladesh”
  • Samantha L. Martin (University College Dublin, Fall), “Designing for Dissent: Democracy, Urbanism, and the Mediation of Conflict”
  • Danielle S. Willkens (Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall), “From Plantation to Protest: Visualizing Cultural Landscapes of Conflict in the American South”

2020–2021

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2020–2021 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Spring), “The Anthology of Islamic Manuscripts on Gardens and Landscapes”

Fellows

  • Katherine M. Bentz (Saint Anselm College), “Prelates, Health, and the Villa in Renaissance Rome”
  • Mika Natif (The George Washington University, Spring), “Mughal Women in Gardens: Patrons, Users, and Designer”

Junior Fellows

  • Marianna Davison (University of California, Irvine), “Sculpting Nature, Making Place: Designing Seattle’s Reclaimed Landscapes, from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition to the Olympic Sculpture Park (1909–2007)”
  • Lizabeth Wardzinski (North Carolina State University), “A Model for the World: Tennessee Valley Authority and Postwar Development”

Mellon Fellows in Urban Landscape Studies

  • Danika Cooper (University of California, Berkeley, Fall), “Strategic Invisibility: The Exploitative Histories of Desert Landscapes”
  • Arijit Sen (University of Wisconsin–Madison, Spring), “Restorative Ligaments: Spaces of Everyday Resistance and Grassroots World-Making in Milwaukee’s Northside”
  • Alec Stewart (University of California, Berkeley), “From Swap Meet to Main Street: Multiethnic Commercial Landscapes in Southern California at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century”

  

2019–2020

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2019-2020 Annual Report.

Fellows

  • Annette Giesecke (University of Delaware), “The Afterlife of Paradise: Near Eastern Origins of the Ancient Roman Garden”
  • Zeynep Kezer (Newcastle University), “Engineering Eastern Turkey: People, Place, and Power in the Upper Euphrates”
  • Ann Komara (University of Colorado Denver), “Les Promenades de Paris: Reception of Alphand’s Urban Landscapes and Treatise”
  • Erika Milam (Princeton University, Spring), “Slow Science: Ecological Landscapes and Their Organisms”

Junior Fellows

  • Katherine Coty (University of Washington), “Nel Cuore di Tufo: Landscape, Stone, and Regional Identity in Sixteenth-Century Tuscia”
  • Lindi Masur (University of Toronto), “Western Basin Paleoethnobotany: Food Production and Landscape Construction at the Borderlands of Algonquin and Iroquoian Territory (1300 CE)”

 

2018–2019

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2018–2019 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Spring)

Fellows

  • Rosa Ficek (Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey), “The Pan-American Highway: Mobility and Encounter in Landscapes of Difference”
  • Heidi Hohmann (Iowa State University, Spring), “Civic Ecology: The Evolution of the Minneapolis Park System”
  • Katherine Rinne (California College of the Arts, Fall), “Experiments with Beauty: Hydraulic Investigations in Rome and Lazio and the Genesis of Baroque Architecture (1550–1585)”
  • Yingzhi Zhao (City University of Hong Kong), “Fragments, Ruins, and Dreamscape: Spatial Discourse and Spatial Imagination in Early Qing Literature and Culture”

Junior Fellows

  • Christine Griffiths (Bard Graduate Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art), “From Garden to Toilette: Cultivating Perfume in Early Modern England”
  • Sarah Leonard (University of Delaware), “‘The Beauty of the Bough-Hung Banks’: William Morris in the Thames Landscape”

William R. Tyler Fellows

  • Philip Gant, “Temple Litigation and Korea’s Long 19th Century”

Mellon Fellows in Urban Landscape Studies

  • Sheila Crane (University of Virginia, Spring), “Inventing Informality”
  • Sahar Hosseini (Rutgers University–Newark, Fall), “The Zayandehrud River Speaks: Reading the Riverine Landscapes of Seventeenth-Century Isfahan”
  • Sarah Klassen (Arizona State University, Fall), “Agro-Urban Environments and Implications for Resilience in Medieval Cambodia”
  • Sara Zewde (Independent Scholar, Spring), “Cotton Kingdom, Now”

Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH) Fellow

  • Xi Li (School of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University), “Ruins in the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Garden with the Response from the Ideas of Chinese Gardens”

 

2017–2018

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2017–2018 Annual Report.

Fellows

  • Romy Hecht (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), “Botanical Practices and Urban Reform in Postcolonial Santiago, Chile”
  • Michael Lee (University of Virginia, Spring), “German Landscape and the Aesthetics of Administration: Peter Joseph Lenné and His Circle, 1815–1848”
  • Kelly Presutti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Terroir after the Terror: Landscape and Representation in Nineteenth-Century France”
  • Denis Ribouillault (Université de Montréal, Fall), “Gardens of the Heavens: Astronomy and the Science of Time in the Gardens of Papal Rome”

Junior Fellows

  • Thalia Allington-Wood (University College London, Spring), “Garden Politics: Italian Renaissance Gardens in Postwar Italy”
  • Nicholas Serrano (North Carolina State University), “Ideologies of Nature in the Landscape Architecture and Urban Development of the Postwar American South, 1955–1975”
  • Kaja Tally-Schumacher (Cornell University, Fall), “Cultivating Empire: Transplanting and Translating Rome”

William R. Tyler Fellows

  • Philip Gant, “Temple Litigation and Korea’s Long Nineteenth Century”
  • Abbey Stockstill, “Crafting an Identity: Landscape and Urbanism in Almohad Marrakesh”

Mellon Fellows in Urban Landscape Studies

  • Basak Durgun (George Mason University), “Cultural Politics of Urban Green Spaces: The Production and Reorganization of Istanbul’s Parks and Gardens”
  • Jacob Boswell (Ohio State University), “Urban Space and Climate in the Progressive-Era American City”
  • John King (San Francisco Chronicle), “New Forms of Urban Public Space and the Publics That They Serve”
  • Maria Taylor (University of Michigan), “Between Town and Country: The Soviet City-Landscape Nexus in Global Perspective”

 

2016–2017

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2016–2017 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • Elizabeth Meyer (University of Virginia), “Landscape Entanglements. Aesthetic Practices in a Networked World”

Fellows

  • Verena Conley (Harvard University), “From Colony to Ecology: Theory and Practice of the Jardin d’essai du Hamma (Algiers)”
  • Jan Haenraets (Boston University, Fall), “Planting Paradise: Mughal Garden Networks in Kashmir, India”
  • Hartmut Troll (Heidelberg University, Spring), “Nature as Model, Taste and Convenience as Criteria—The Position of Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell within Garden Theory”

Junior Fellow

  • Alexander Brey (Bryn Mawr College), “The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting and the Landscape in Umayyad Visual Culture”

William R. Tyler Fellows

  • Abbey Stockstill, “Crafting an Identity: Landscape and Urbanism in Almohad Marrakesh”
  • John Davis, “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the American Landscape, 1865–1904”
  • Deirdre Moore, “Indigenous Knowledge and Breeding of Cochineal Insects in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexico”

Mellon Fellows in Urban Landscape Studies

  • Megan Asaka (University of California, Riverside, Fall), “The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle’s Urban Landscape”
  • Sara Carr (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Spring), “The Topography of Wellness: Health and the American Urban Landscape”
  • Peter Ekman (University of California, Berkeley, Spring), “Suburbs of Last Resort: Vitality and Ruin on the Edges of San Francisco Bay”
  • Burak Erdim (North Carolina State University, Fall), “The Academy and the State: Situating Land Economics and Development Planning in the Cold War Middle East”

 

2015–2016

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2015–2016 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • Alison Hardie (Leeds University), “The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature.” Interview with Dr. Hardie.

Fellows

  • Tom Conley (Harvard University), “Mapping River and City in France, 1600–1640”
  • Philip Jacks (George Washington University, Spring), “‘To Make it a Great Entrepot’: The Story of Baltimore’s Locust Point”
  • Linda Jewell (University of California, Berkeley, Fall), “Gathering on the Ground: Experiencing Landscape in American Outdoor Theaters”
  • Tamara Sears (Yale University), “Wilderness Urbanisms: Architecture, Landscape, and Travel in Precolonial India”

Junior Fellows

  • Camille Behnke Shamble (University of Virginia), “Growing Children Out of Doors: California’s Open-Air Schools and Children’s Health, 1907–1917”
  • Shuichi Wanibuchi (Harvard University), “A Colony by Design: Nature, Knowledge, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Delaware Valley, 1680–1780”

William R. Tyler Fellows

  • John Davis, “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the American Landscape, 1865–1904”
  • Deirdre Moore, “Indigenous Knowledge and Breeding of Cochineal Insects in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexico”

Mellon Fellows in Urban Landscape Studies

  • Christina Milos (University of Hannover, Fall), “Anticipatory Urbanization Strategies for In-Situ Oil Sands Extraction in Nigeria”
  • Alpa Nawre (Kansas State University, Spring), “Adaptive Land-Water Edges in Indian Cities”
  • Kara Schlichting (Queens College, City of New York, Spring), “The Nature of Urban Coastal Resiliency: Twentieth-Century Governance, Environmental Management, and Design”
  • David Wooden (District Department of the Environment, Fall), “Washington’s Sewer History: Ideological, Technological, and Environmental Evolution”

Summer Fellows

  • Timothy Baird (Pennsylvania State University), “Landscape Materiality: Innovation and Convention from Modernism to the Present”
  • Francois Dupuigrenet Desroussilles (Florida State University), “‘If Eve Had a Spade in Paradise. . . ’: Elizabeth von Arnim and Her Gardens (1898–1914)”
  • Josepha Richard (University of Sheffield), “The Gardens of Lingnan: Valorizing the Third Garden Culture in China”
  • Yichi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney), “The Parlor of the Metropolis: Public Parks and Open Space in the British Concessions of China, 1842–1937”

  

2014–2015

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2014–2015 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey (Queen's University), "Varro's Garden Aviary as Architecture for the Birds"

Fellows

  • Felix Arnold (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Spring), “Islamic Gardens and Palaces in the West: Archaeological Evidence and Architectural Interpretation”
  • Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (University of Pennsylvania), “From Palladian Villa to American Plantation: Gardens and the Ideology of Country Living”
  • Danielle Joyner (University of Notre Dame), “Landscapes and Medieval Arts”
  • Paul Kelsch (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), “Natural Histories of the Theodore Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Memorials”
  • Micheline Nilsen (Indiana University South Bend, Fall), “From Turnips to Lawn Chairs: Allotment Gardens in Europe, 1920 to 1975”

Junior Fellows

  • Jessica Herlich (College of William and Mary), “Algonquian Gardens in Tidewater Virginia”
  • Kaye Wierzbicki (Harvard University), “Garden Work: The Horticultural Formation of American Literature, 1850–1930”

Summer Fellows

  • Ilaria Andreoli (CNRS/Université de Caen Basse-Normandie), “Pietro Andrea Mattioli’s Discorsi on Dioscorides: The Publishing Strategies behind a Renaissance Best Seller”
  • Antonio Jose Mezcua López (Universidad de Granada), “The Feilaifeng Research Project”
  • Margaret Samu (Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University), “Baroque Sculpture Display in Peter the Great’s Summer Garden”

  

2013–2014

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2013–2014 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • Joseph Disponzio (New York City Department of Parks and Recreation/Columbia University), "Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention of Landscape Architecture"

Fellows

  • Stephen Bending (University of Southampton, Spring), “Pleasure Gardens and the Use of Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century England, France, and America”
  • Daniel Bluestone (University of Virginia), “Dwelling in Landscape”
  • Sarah Cantor (University of Maryland), “The World of the Senses: Gaspard Dughet and Seventeenth-Century Landscape Painting in Rome”
  • Kristof Fatsar (Corvinus University of Budapest), “Professional Networking and Knowledge Transfer of Gardeners in Europe Using an Early Nineteenth-Century Example”
  • Kathleen John-Alder (Rutgers University, Fall), “Purposeful Study, Meaningful Order, and the Aesthetics of the Total Environment”

Junior Fellows

  • Rachel Koroloff (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Seeds of Exchange: Russia’s Apothecary and Botanical Gardens in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century”
  • Aline de Figueirôa Silva (Universidade de São Paulo, Fall), “Public Gardens in the History of Landscape Design of Northern Brazil in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

William R. Tyler Fellows

  • Deniz Turker Cerda (Harvard University), “Ottoman Victoriana: Istanbul’s Last Ottoman Palace-Complex of Yildiz, 1876–1909”
  • Aleksandar Shopov (Harvard University), “Ottoman Horticultural Science and Practice, 1453–1669”

Summer Fellows

  • Abigail Dowling (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Land and Natural Resource Management in Northern France, 1302–1329: The County of Artois Under Countess Mahaut”
  • Sandro Jung (Universiteit Gent), “Topographical Designs for British Illustrated Pocket Diaries, Changing Landscape, and the Nation”
  • Fei Mo (University of Sheffield), Going Native: American Gardens and the Modernization of Residential Landscapes in Shanghai (1843–1949)”

  

2012–2013

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2012–2013 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • Lawrence Buell (Harvard University, Director’s Visiting Scholar), “Gardens and the Work of Environmental Memory”

Fellows

  • Mirka Beneš (University of Texas, Austin), “Landscape, Architecture, and Experience in the Villa Culture of Seventeenth-Century Rome”
  • Finola O’Kane Crimmins (University College Dublin, Spring),Landscape and Revolution in Ireland, France, and America, 1710–1810”
  • Bianca Maria Rinaldi (Università degli Studi di Camerino, Fall), “Landscapes on Paper: Western Accounts of Chinese Gardens from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century”
  • Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa), “Fruits of Our Labor: A Social and Cultural History of Kitchen Gardening in Imperial Russia”

Junior Fellow

  • Maggie Cao (Harvard University), “Episodes at the End of Landscape: Hudson River School to American Modernism

William R. Tyler Fellow

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

Summer Fellows

  • Duncan Campbell (Australian National University), “The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature
  • Naama Meishar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Politics and Ethics in Landscape Architecture: Spacing, Expression, and Representation in Jaffa's Slope Park
  • Miranda Mollendorf (Harvard University), “The World in a Book: Robert John Thornton's Temple of Flora (1799–1812)
  • Katherine Rinne (California College of the Arts), “The Source of the Soul: Water for Villa Waterworks in Renaissance Rome
  • Terre Ryan (Loyola University Maryland), “Setting Liberty’s Table
  • Xiangpin Zhou (Tongji University), “An Imagination of the Chinese Shangri-La in a Western Way: Zhang Garden in Shanghai (1882–1918)

  

2011–2012

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2011–2012 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholars

  • Duncan Campbell (Australian National University), “The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature”
  • Allen Grieco, Villa I Tatti, Director's Visiting Scholar, “The Gardens of Cecil Pinsent (1884–1963)

Fellows

  • Duncan Campbell (Australian National University), “The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature”
  • Louis Cellauro (Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes), “Varro’s Aviary at Casinum: Reconstructions from the Renaissance to the Present
  • Robin Veder (Pennsylvania State University), “‘Natural’ Performances: Early Twentieth Century Body Cultures in American Gardens

Junior Fellows

  • Michael Herchenbach (Bonn University, Germany), “Planting the Seeds of Rome: Garden Plants in the Northwestern Roman Empire
  • Miranda Mollendorf (Harvard University, Spring), “The World in a Book: Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1799–1812)
  • Alla Vronskaya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall), “Landscape as Experience: Rationalist Movement in Soviet Architecture, 1919–1941”

Summer Fellows

  • Velma E. Love (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University), “From Swamp Land to Sacred Landscape”
  • Jyoti Pandey Sharma (Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal, India), “Spatializing Gentility: The Public Park and Civic Pride in the Colonial Indian Landscape”
  • Rebecca Williamson (University of Cincinnati), “The Stuff of Cities: Resources and Waste in the Urban Landscape”
  • Sevin Yildiz (New Jersey Institute of Technology), “New Jersey Meadowlands: Planning the Ecology of Disappearance, 1929–2004”

  

2010–2011

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2010–2011 Annual Report.

Visiting Scholar

  • John Dixon Hunt (The University of Pennsylvania), “The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture”

Fellows

  • Sonja Dümpelmann (University of Maryland), “Flights of Imagination: Aviation and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Landscape Design and Planning”
  • Nurit Lissovsky (Technion–Israel Institute of Technology), “National Parks in the Service of Nation Building: The Pioneering Work of Lipa Yahalom and Dan Zur in Israel”
  • James Nisbet (California State University, Long Beach, Spring), “Environment/Object/Ecosystem: Land Art after 1960”
  • Anatole Tchikine (Trinity College Dublin – University of Dublin, Ireland), “Gardens, Fountains, and the Science of Waters: An Unpublished Treatise by Giovanni Antonio Nigrone (1609)”

Junior Fellow

  • James Schissel (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Home Grown: Thomas Affleck’s Advocacy for Regional Identity in the American South, 1848–1868”

Summer Fellows

  • Jonathan Conlin (University of Southampton), “Grounds for Pleasure: The Pleasure Garden in Britain and America, 1660–1914”
  • Jessica Hurd (Indiana University Bloomington), “Spatial Responses to Violence: Counter Monuments and Site-Specific Installations in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
  • Ulrike Krippner (Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria), “Over the Ocean: Women Immigrants in American Landscape Architecture in the 1940s and 1950s”
  • Natsumi Nonaka (School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin), “Pergolas and Pavilions in Italian Renaissance Gardens: A Study of the Printed Primary Sources”

  

2009–2010

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2009–2010 Annual Report.

Fellows

  • Luisa Elena Alcalá (NYU in Madrid, New York University, Fall), “Converging Landscapes: The Representation of Place in Latin American Colonial Painting”
  • Grey Gundaker (Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary), “Wild Flowers: African and African Diaspora Landscapes and the Politics of Gardens”
  • Thomas Zeller (University of Maryland), “Consuming Landscapes: The View from the Road in the United States and Germany, 1920–1970”

Junior Fellows

  • Elsa Lam (Columbia University, Spring), “Wilderness Nation: Building Canada’s Railway Landscapes, 1884–1929”
  • Stephen Whiteman (Stanford University), “Creating the Kangxi Landscape: Gardens and the Mediation of Qing Imperial Identity at Bishu Shanzhuang”

Summer Fellows

  • Nicole Jeanne Cuenot (Columbia University), “The Force of Flowers: Bringing the Outdoors In at Versailles”
  • Thomas F. Hedin (University of Minnesota, Duluth), “The Gardens of Versailles during the Early Reign of Louis ⅩⅣ: Three Studies”
  • Sally O’Halloran (University of Sheffield), “The Serviceable Ghost: The Forgotten Role of the Gardener in England from 1600 to 1730”
  • Priyaleen Singh (School of Planning and Architecture), “Conservation of Historic Gardens in India: The Florence Charter on Historic Gardens Illustrated, Expanded, and Critiqued”

  

2008–2009

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2008–2009 Annual Report.

Fellows

  • Mahvash Alemi (Rome, Italy), “Safavid Gardens as the Representation of their World and Culture”
  • Eric A. MacDonald (University of Georgia), “The Art which Mends Nature: The Contributions of Garden and Forest to the History of American Environmentalism”

Junior Fellows

  • Nina Gerlach (University of Heidelberg, Fall), “The Garden as Film Backdrop: Construction of Cinematic Garden Space”
  • Jennifer Raab (Yale University), “The Language of Landscape: Frederic Church and the Culture of Detail in Nineteenth-Century America”

Summer Fellow

  • María del Carmen Magaz (Universidad del Salvador), “Public Space: Development of Garden and Park Conservation Practices, Current Debates, and Laws”

Beatrix Farrand Distinguished Fellow

  • Stephen Bann, CBE (University of Bristol, Spring), “Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Creation of the Garden at Stonypath/Little Sparta”

  

2007–2008

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2007–2008 Annual Report.

Fellows

  • David L. Hays (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Paolo Bürgi, Cardada”
  • Bo Jiang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), “The Design of Tang Imperial Gardens: Tradition, Creativity, and Symbolization”
  • Yi Wang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Spring), “The Relationship between Gardens and Woodblock Prints in Sixteenth Century Ming China”

Junior Fellow

  • Miguel de Baca (Harvard University), “First, A Fence: The Vernacular Cultural Space of Anne Truitt's Early Sculpture”

Beatrix Farrand Distinguished Fellow

  • Peter Jacobs (Université de Montréal, Canada, Spring), “Folklore and Forest Fragments”

 

2006–2007

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2006–2007 Annual Report.

Fellows

  • Cammy Brothers (University of Virginia), “Mediterranean Landscapes”
  • Thomas Hedin (University of Minnesota, Duluth, Fall), “The Fountain of Latona: Louis ⅩⅣ and the Premier Versailles”
  • Shikui Li (Wuhan University), “The Aesthetics of Chinese Classical Garden in Yuan Ye”

Junior Fellow

  • Rebecca L. Reynolds (The University of Chicago), “Sculpture Parks, Sculpture Gardens and Site-Specific Practices in the United States, 1965–1991”

Summer Fellow

  • Sally Ann Grant (University of Sydney), “Play in the Garden in Early Modern Venice”

  

2005–2006

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2005–2006 Annual Report.

Fellows

  • Richard Coulton (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom), “Discourses of Horticulture in England, 1660–1760
  • M. Elen Deming (College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, Spring), “Wish-Landscapes and Garden Cities”
  • Maryrica Ortiz Lottman (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), “Myriad Gardens: Landscapes of the Baroque Spanish Stage”

Junior Fellow

  • Igor Demchenko (State Institute of Art Research, Moscow, Russia), “The Visual Representation of Heavens and Paradise in Medieval Islamic Culture”

  

2004–2005

To learn more about each scholar's project, please see the 2004–2005 Annual Report.

Fellows

  • Kendall Brown (California State University, Long Beach), “Rhetorical Landscapes: A Social History of Japanese-Style Gardens in North America”
  • Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (University of Pennsylvania), “The Medici Gardens of Fifteenth-Century Florence: Conceptualization and Tradition”
  • Christian A. Tschumi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland / University of Kyoto, Japan), “Shin-Sakuteiki: A Manifesto for the Japanese Garden”

Junior Fellow

  • Katherine Temple von Stackelberg (Trinity College Dublin – University of Dublin), Reassessing the Roman Hortus: Cultural Self-Definition and the Aesthetics of Production”

Summer Fellows

  • Louis Cellauro (Saint-Fons, France), “In Modem Circi: Pliny the Younger's Hippodrome at Tusci and its Posterity in Renaissance Gardens”
  • Joanna Guldi (University of California, Berkeley), “Border Panic: Regulating London's Parks and Squares, 1750–1830”
  • Ann Komara (University of Colorado, Denver), “The Parc des Buttes Chaumont (Paris, 1867): Reception and Ideology of the Engineered Picturesque”
  • Yuthika Sharma (Harvard Design School), “The Landscape of Colonial Monument Parks at Delhi, India (1857–1947): A Historical and Comparative Perspective”

  

2003–2004

Fellows

  • Kathleen Wren Christian (Washington, D.C.), “The Ethics of Decorous Pleasure and the Birth of the Roman Sculpture Garden, 1475–1530”
  • Elizabeth Lebas (Middlesex University, London 2, Spring), “Reforming Beauty: Female Social and Political Engagement in Public Gardens and Landscapes in Early Twentieth-Century London”
  • Kristine Miller (University of Minnesota), “Designing the Public: Money, Access and Expression in New York City's Public Spaces”

Junior Fellow

  • B. Deniz Çalis (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), “Reconstruction of the Journey to ‘Kagithane Commons’: Symbol of a Short-Lived Cultural Renewal in Ottoman Istanbul (1718–1730)”

Summer Fellows

  • Catherine Benoit (Connecticut College), “African American and Caribbean Gardens: The Experience of Space and Nature in Slave and Post-Slave Societies”
  • Denis Ribouillault (Université Paris I, Sorbonne), “Landscape, Power and Property: Topographical Landscape Painting in the Decoration of Villas and Palaces in Rome and the Lazio, 1530–1630”
  • Dorota Sikora (Centre for the Preservation of Historic Landscape, Warsaw), “The Influence of Western European Garden Treatises on Polish Baroque Garden Art”
  • Christian A. Tschumi (ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), “Mirei Shigemori (1896–1975), Modernizing the Japanese Garden”

  

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