The Senior Fellows committee was established in 1974, replacing the Garden Advisory Committee established in 1956, to guide the fellowship program. The committee advises the Director of Dumbarton Oaks on all aspects of research and collection development concerning Garden and Landscape studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
Current Senior Fellows
- Vera S. Candiani
2022– - Stephen Daniels
2020– - Philip J. Deloria
2022– - Dianne S. Harris
2021– - Elizabeth Hyde
2020– , (current chair) - Elizabeth Meyer
2017– , (chair from 2019–2022)
Former Senior Fellows
- Nurhan Atasoy
2004–2010 - Diana Balmori
2005–2011 - Stephen Bann
2002–2008 - Milo Beach
1987–1993 - Sonia Berjman
2002–2006 - Edward Chappell
1993–1997 - Michel Conan
1989–2008 - Erik A. de Jong
2002–2008 - Sonja Dümpelmann
2014–2020 - Richard Etlin
1999–2006 - Georges Farhat
2014–2020 - Alfred Frazer
1987–1994 - Kathryn Gleason
2016–2022 - Gert Gröning
2011–2017 - Alison Hardie
2010–2016 - Kenneth Helphand
2005–2011 - Ron Henderson
2016–2022 - Catherine Howett
1995–2002 - John Dixon Hunt
1985–1992 - Dorothée Imbert
2008–2014 - Peter Jacobs
1998–2005 - Mark Laird
2008–2014 - Michael Leslie
1996–2003 - Robin Middleton
1993–2000 - Naomi Miller
1983–1990 - Henry Millon
1982–1990 - Laurie Olin
1983–1990 - Therese O’Malley
1989–1996 - John Pinto
1988–1992, 2017–2021 - Robert Riley
1992–1999 - D. Fairchild Ruggles
2010–2016 - Richard E. Strassberg
2007–2010 - Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
1996–2003 - Marc Treib
1989–1996 - James L. Wescoat, Jr.
1995–2002 - Stephen West
2001–2008 - Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
1991–1997 - Terence Young
1996–1998 - Thaisa Way
2011–2017