2012–2013 Dumbarton Oaks Fellows

Summer Fellows

Patrick Andrist, Université de Fribourg
Byzantine Studies
“Critical Edition with Commentary of the Dialogue of Athanasius and Zacchaeus”

Massimo Bernabò, Università degli Studi di Pavia
Byzantine Studies
“The Illustrations of the Arabic Gospels of Infancy (Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana cod. Orientale 387)”

Matthew Briel, Fordham University
Byzantine Studies
“Translation and Commentary of George-Gennadios Scholarios's Tracts on Predetermination”

Duncan Campbell, Australian National University
Garden and Landscape Studies
“The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature”

Lori Diel, Texas Christian University
Pre-Columbian Studies
“The Codex Mexicanus on the Mexica of Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco”

Krzysztof Domzalski, Polska Akademia Nauk
Byzantine Studies
“A New Look at the History and Material Culture of the Pontic Region in the Early Byzantine Period: The Evidence of Fine Pottery”

Wolfram Drews, Universität Münster Historisches Seminar
Byzantine Studies
“Christians Beyond the Border:  An Item on the Agenda of Byzantine Emperors?”

Heather Hunter Crawley, University of Bristol
Byzantine Studies
“A Sensory Archaeology of the Riha Hoard”

Robert Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church
Byzantine Studies
“Ethiopian Monastic Translation: Dadisho Qatraya from Syriac to Ge’ez”

Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Auburn University
Pre-Columbian Studies
“A Marketplace of Ideas at Chichén Itzá: The Mercado and the Group of the Thousand Columns”

Elisa Mandell, California State University–Fullerton
Pre-Columbian Studies
“Representing Death and Decomposition in Costa Rican Funerary Masks”

Naama Meishar, The Hebrew University
Garden and Landscape Studies
“Politics and Ethics in Landscape Architecture: Spacing, Expression, and Representation in Jaffa's Slope Park”

Miranda Mollendorf, Harvard University
Garden and Landscape Studies
“The World in a Book: Robert John Thornton's Temple of Flora (1799–1812)”

Katherine Rinne, California College of the Arts
Garden and Landscape Studies
“The Source of the Soul: Water for Villa Waterworks in Renaissance Rome”

Erick Rochette, The Pennsylvania State University
Pre-Columbian Studies
“The Price of Prestige: Examining Classic Maya Jade Artifact Use and Economic Organization”

Terre Ryan, Loyola University Maryland
Garden and Landscape Studies
“Setting Liberty’s Table”

Manuela Studer-Karlen, Université de Fribourg
Byzantine Studies
“Byzantine Church Iconographic Programs and the Liturgy: The Case of Christ Anapeson”

Jeffrey Walker, University of Texas–Austin
Byzantine Studies
“Joseph Rhakendytes’ Synopsis of Rhetoric:  Translation and Commentary”

Martin Wallraff, Universität Basel
Byzantine Studies
“The Canon Tables of the Gospels by Eusebius of Caesarea (Fourth Century):  Critical Edition and Commentary”

Xiangpin Zhou, Tongji University
Garden and Landscape Studies
“An Imagination of the Chinese Shangri-La in a Western Way: Zhang Garden in Shanghai (1882–1918)”

Fellows

Ricardo Agurcia, Asociación Copán²
Pre-Columbian Studies
“Art, Architecture, and Archaeology at Temple 16, Copán, Honduras”

Julian Baker, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford²
Byzantine Studies
“Money in Constantinople, the Sea of Marmara, and the Northeast Aegean during the Fourteenth Century”

Mirka Beneš, University of Texas­–Austin
Garden and Landscape Studies
“Landscape, Architecture, and Experience in the Villa Culture of Seventeenth-Century Rome”

Floris Bernard, Universiteit Gent
Byzantine Studies
“Playfulness and Wit in Byzantine Letter-Writing (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries)”

Paul Goldstein, University of California–San Diego
Pre-Columbian Studies
“Being Tiwanaku: Tiwanaku Social Identities in Diaspora”

Grigory Kessel, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Byzantine Studies
"Syriac Monastic Anthologies:  Reception and Transmission of Syriac and Greek Monastic Literature”

Jeff Kowalski, Northern Illinois University²
Pre-Columbian Studies
“The Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal:  Kingship, Court, and Cosmos in a Puuc Palace Complex”

Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Byzantine Studies
“Byzantine Historiography:  Caught Between Literary Ambition and the Demands of Scholarship?”

Axel Nielsen, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Pre-Columbian Studies
“Llama Caravans and Interregional Trade in the South Andes: Ethnographic and Archaeological      Perspectives”

Finola O’Kane Crimmins, University College Dublin²
Garden and Landscape Studies
“Revolutionary Landscapes:  Ireland, France, and America from 1700–1810”

Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania
Byzantine Studies
“Rethinking Byzantine Cappadocia”

Bianca Maria Rinaldi, Università degli Studi di Camerino¹
Garden and Landscape Studies
“Landscapes on Paper:  Western Accounts of Chinese Gardens from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century”

Christine Ruane, University of Tulsa
Garden and Landscape Studies
“Fruits of Our Labor:  A Social and Cultural History of Kitchen Gardening in Imperial Russia”

Frauke Sachse, Universität Bonn
Pre-Columbian Studies
“Changing Otherworlds:  Concepts of ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ in the Context of Early Colonial Christianization”

Rossitza Schroeder, Pacific School of Religion¹
Byzantine Studies
“Image and Audience in the Ancillary Spaces of Monastic Churches in Late Byzantium”

Junior Fellows

Maggie Cao, Harvard University
Garden and Landscape Studies
“Refiguring Landscape:  Zoological Agency and Nineteenth-Century American Painting”

Beatrice Daskas, Università degli Studi Milano
Byzantine Studies
“See something, say something”?  Toward a New Reading of Mesarites’ Description of the Holy Apostles”

Rebecca Day, University of Birmingham
Byzantine Studies
“Indo-Byzantine Exchange (Fourth to Eighth Centuries):  A Global History”

Andrei Gandila, University of Florida
Byzantine Studies
“Marginal Money:  Coins, Frontiers, and Barbarians in Early Byzantium (Sixth–Seventh Centuries)”

Nicholas Marinides, Princeton University
Byzantine Studies
“Byzantine Lay Piety, ca. 600–850”

Go Matsumoto, Southern Illinois University
Pre-Columbian Studies
“The Ideological Function of the Middle Sicán Ancestor Cult, Northern North Coast of Peru (ca. 900–1100 CE)”

Alberto Rigolio, University of Oxford¹
Byzantine Studies
“Cross-Fertilizing Worlds:  Schools and Monasteries in the Early Byzantine Period”

Maeve Skidmore, Southern Methodist University
Pre-Columbian Studies
“Hatun Cotuyoc:  A Domestic Perspective on the Construction of a Wari Province and Empire in Huaro, Cusco, Peru”

Kenichiro Tsukamoto, University of Arizona
Pre-Columbian Studies
“Building Ritual Landscapes: The Hieroglyphic Stairway at the Classic Maya Center of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico”

William R. Tyler Two-Year Fellowships for Harvard Graduate Students

Dylan Clark, Pre-Columbian Studies
“Living on the Edge: The Residential Spaces, Social Organization, and Dynamics of Isla Cerritos, a Maya Port”

Merih Danali, Byzantine Studies³
“Negotiating Self-Representation and Cultural Identity:  Artistic and Cultural Responses to the Byzantine-Ottoman Encounter (1300–1453)”

Saskia Dirkse, Byzantine Studies³
“Asceticism, Orality, and Textual Transmission in the Spiritual Meadow of John Moschus”

Jakub Kabala, Byzantine Studies
“Frontier Spaces: Eastern Europe, 800–1000”

Konstantina Karterouli, Byzantine Studies
“Mimesis and Identity: Byzantium in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 1100–1250”

Aleksandar Sopov, Garden and Landscape Studies^{2 3}
“Ottoman Horticultural Science and Practice, 1453­–1669”

Nawa Sugiyama, Pre-Columbian Studies³
“Ritualized Animals: Understanding Human-Animal Interactions at Teotihuacan”

Lisa Trever, Pre-Columbian Studies
“Moche Mural Painting and Practice at Pañamarca: A Study of Image Making in Ancient Peru"

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¹Fall term

²Spring term

³In residence at Dumbarton Oaks in 2013–2014