Press Releases

Inspiring discovery and scholarship through free access to biodiversity knowledge

This landmark publication in the Dumbarton Oaks Studies series is the first monograph dedicated to the great cruciform churches of late-eleventh-century Tigray, Ethiopia: Abreha wa-Atsbeha, Wuqro Cherqos, and Mika’el Amba.

Ernst Kris’s "The Rustic Style" is made available in English for the first time in a masterly translation by Linda B. Parshall

"Reconsidering the Chavín Phenomenon in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Richard L. Burger and Jason Nesbitt.

A new website and open access

Welcoming researchers to the “Home of the Humanities”

American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, The Kreeger Museum, Dumbarton Oaks, Jackson Art Center, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, and Klagsbrun Studios collaborate for Do The Loop, a free day of indoor and outdoor art programming on April 22, 2023.

Mellon Foundation has renewed the grant on Democracy, Race, and Difference for five-years.

We are delighted to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta will be Research Artist in Residence at Dumbarton Oaks from September 12 to November 4, 2022

Drawn from the world’s largest collection of Byzantine seals, this exhibition takes viewers on a journey into the medieval world

Dumbarton Oaks is pleased to announce the establishment of the Flora Clancy Memorial Fund

Harvard University has appointed Thomas B. F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University, as Director of Dumbarton Oaks.

Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University, will leave the directorship of Dumbarton Oaks on July 1, 2020.

April 30, 2020

Dumbarton Oaks has appointed Dr. Frauke Sachse as the Dumbarton Oaks Program Director in Pre-Columbian Studies

Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the three-year initiative will focus on Democracy, Race, and Difference.

Mellon grant fosters collaboration between special collections and the digital humanities

Dumbarton Oaks announces a campus improvement project that will enhance sustainability, K-12 educational activities, and support of the arts and humanities at Dumbarton Oaks.

Ornament: Fragments of Byzantine Fashion rethinks ancient bodies and modern aesthetics

Dumbarton Oaks has appointed Thaisa Way as the Program Director in Garden and Landscape Studies.

An early trip to Peru, the first of many, transformed William J. Conklin’s life forever and sparked his interest in the people and cultures of the Andes, particularly ethnographic and Pre-Columbian textiles.

Dumbarton Oaks recently acquired a Byzantine manuscript of John Chrysostom’s Homilies on St. Matthew, written very likely at the end of the ninth century in Constantinople.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides support for digital tool and research and scholarly programming

The annual Music at Dumbarton Oaks concert series returns this fall with an impressive season of performances.

For the first time ever, single-concert tickets are available for the Music at Dumbarton Oaks concert series, coinciding with an especially exciting season of performances

Dumbarton Oaks, with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation, has acquired an early tenth century Greek manuscript of historic and scholarly significance

The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.”

Dumbarton Oaks announces a new exhibition, Outside/IN: Martha Jackson Jarvis at Dumbarton Oaks, an installation of sculpture and works on paper inspired by natural forms and materials by noted DC artist Martha Jackson Jarvis.

Dumbarton Oaks has hired Jonathan Kavalier to succeed Gail Griffin as the Director of Gardens and Grounds. Her successor brings with him more than 15 years of experience in landscape design and public garden management.