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This award will support a study of historic gardens in Suzhou, China, and Seoul, Korea as part of his research project, "Nature in Cities: Urban Gardens in Pre-Modern East Asia." The field research will contribute to a book project examining the relationship between eighteenth-century imperial gardens in Beijing, urban gardens in China’s Lower Yangzi region, and royal gardens of Korea’s late Joseon dynasty. The research will also help him develop an undergraduate travel seminar on urban gardens in pre-modern East Asia.
Eleonora Pistis, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, is the winner of the 2025 Berger Prize, the leading book prize in the field of British art history.
Her study—Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford (London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2024)—has been defined by the Chair of the judging panel as “A rare example of true interdisciplinarity,” a one that “breaks new ground in the field of intellectual history as well as architectural history.
The team behind the "Black Mediterranean / Mediterraneo Nero” — a project directed at our department by Professor Avinoam Shalem (with Professor Alina Payne, Harvard, Villa I Tatti, Florence) — are pleased to share the final edit of our masterclass with Youssef Ben Ismail and Rachid Koraïchi at the Jardin d'Afrique: https://vimeo.com/976684954
Along with our gratitude to Getty for the support, special thanks are due to Youssef Cherif and his colleagues at the Columbia Global Center Tunis, Juliet Strachan at I Tatti, as well as the camera crew of A&G Production, Mongi Slim of the Red…
This award recognizes academic excellence in any field of the humanities at Columbia University