Dumbarton Oaks Names Fellows for 1998-99

Dumbarton Oaks, the University's Washington, D.C.-based research institution in Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies, and the history of landscape architecture, has named its 1998-99 Fellows. They are as follows:

Junior Fellows

George Dodds, University of Pennsylvania, "An Extended Landscape for Living: The Garden Art of Carlo Scarpa"; Michael Gaddis, Princeton University, "Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire"; Florent Heintz, Harvard University, "Magic in the Late Antique Circus"; Asen Kirin, Princeton University, "The Rotunda of St. George in Sofia: History, Architecture, and Mural Decoration -- ca. 300-1600"; Holger Klein, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn, "Perceptions of Byzantium in Romanesque Europe: Byzantine Cross Reliquaries and their Impact on the Artistic Production of the West"; Laura J. Lawson, University of California, Berkeley, "Urban Gardening Programs in the U.S.: A History of Ethics, Economics and Community"; Michael A. Ohnersorgen, Arizona State University, "Postclassic Social and Economic Organization in the Mesoamerican Gulf Lowlands: A View from the Provincial Capital of Cotaxtla, Veracruz, Mexico."

Fellows

Jonathan Philip Bardill, University of Oxford, "The Church of St. Polyeuktos in Constantinople"; Tamara L. Bray, Wayne State University, "The Art of Empire in the Andes: Form and Imagery of Imperial Inca Pottery"; Warren B. Church, Yale University, "Culture Areas and Interaction Spheres in the Tropical Andean Cloud Forests of South America"; Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Zbigniew T. Fiema, Salt Lake City, Utah; "The Byzantine Period in Petra and Southern Jordan: New Archaeological and Historical Evidence"; 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";

Vojislav Korac, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, "The Architecture in the Transition Zones between Byzantium and the West, 9th to 14th Centuries. Program and Achievements"; Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Religious Motivations for the Composition of Saints' Lives in the Early Christian East"; Elizabeth K. Meyer, University of Virginia School of Architecture, "The Margins of Modernity: Theories and Practices of Modern Landscape Architecture"; William L. North, University of California, Berkeley, "Oikonomia and Dispensatio in Dialogue: A Comparative Case Study of Ecclesiastical Mercy and Justice in Byzantium and the West"; Brigitte Pitarakis, Paris, France, "Byzantine Bronze Pectoral Reliquary Crosses"; Andrea J. Stone, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "The Rock Art of Cerro de las Figuras, Lake Güija, El Salvador: Sacred Sites and the Mesoamerican Frontier"; Karen E. Stothert, The University of Texas, San Antonio, "Ancestors: An Archaeology of Southwest Ecuador"; Denis F. Sullivan, University of Maryland, College Park, "John Doxopatres' Commentaries on Hermogenes' [Greek title]: a critical edition, translation and analysis."

Summer Fellows, 1998

Nebahat Avcioglu, Cambridge, England, "The Visual Discourse of Turkish Architecture in the 18th Century English Landscape Gardens: Vauxhall and Kew Gardens Revisited"; Kate Cooper, University of Manchester, "The Roman Cult of Eastern Martyrs: 400-700"; Kristoffel Demoen, Universiteit Gent, "John Geometres and John Mauropous: Rhetoric and Literature from Encyclopedism to the Pre-Renaissance"; Rosemary Thoonen Dubowchik, Southern Connecticut State University, "Sacred Music of the Byzantine Empire: A Handbook"; Eurydice S. Georgantelis, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, "Coins and Routes in Western Thrace, 490-1204 A.D."; and "The Via Egnatia and the Regional Currencies of the Byzantine Empire";

Anne L. Helmreich, Texas Christian University, "Our England is a Garden: National Identity and the Garden in England, 1870-1914"; Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Munera Immensa: The Role of Subsidies in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Foreign Policy"; Neil M. Maher, New York University, "Planting More Than Trees: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement, 1929-1945"; Mikaël Nichanian, Université de Paris IV, "Byzantine Elites and Imperial Power between the Seventh and the Ninth Centuries"; Arietta S. Papaconstantinou, Université de Paris XII, "The Cult of Saints in Byzantine and Umayyad Egypt: the Contribution of Greek and Coptic Papyrological and Epigraphical Evidence."

Pre-Columbian Summer Seminar, 1998 -- "Pre-Columbian Elite Architecture"

George F. Andrews, University of Oregon; Susan Toby Evans, Pennsylvania State University; Ernesto Gonzalez Licon, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico; William H. Isbell, Binghamton University; Joanne Pillsbury, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; David Webster, Pennsylvania State University.