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Senior Fellows

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)
  • Akin Ogundiran
    2023– 

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
    20142020
  • Richard Etlin
    1999–2006
  • Georges Farhat
    20142020  
  • 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
  • Elizabeth Meyer
    2017–2023 (chair from 2019–2022)
  • 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