Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Democracy and Landscape
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About The Position
With support from the Mellon Foundation's Humanities in Place program, Dumbarton Oaks invites applications for an early career postdoctoral fellow in environmental history with a research focus on race, indigeneity, settler colonialism, and/or the Global South as revealed in a people's history of place and land. Dumbarton Oaks is a research institute in Washington D.C. affiliated with Harvard University that supports research in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape Studies and is home to a museum with world-class collections of Pre-Columbian, Byzantine, and European Renaissance art, and a historic garden designed as a work of art by Beatrix Farrand. The Garden and Landscape Studies program seeks to both challenge and expand the boundaries of landscape and garden histories and narratives. The initiative “Democracy and Landscape: Race, Identity, and Difference” contributes to the re-shaping of how we come to understand and people's histories in place and on/with land, building on our NEH Summer Institute series “A People's History of Landscape.” The Democracy and Landscape Initiative seeks to steward a community of scholars engaged in reframing narratives of landscape history by means of a deeper inquiry into questions of, among others, race and identity, territory and sovereignty, empire and decolonization, social hierarchy, and democracy as they are revealed in place and through land use practices contributing to a fuller and more truthful history of people and place.
