February 21, 2020
Wunsch Earns Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship

The Main House and Museum at Dumbarton Oaks, which is located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC
Stuart Weitzman School of Design
102 Meyerson Hall
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The Main House and Museum at Dumbarton Oaks, which is located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC
Michael Grant
mrgrant@design.upenn.edu
215.898.2539
Aaron Wunsch, an associate professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, has received a Mellon Fellowship in Urban Landscape Studies from Dumbarton Oaks for his work on pre-Civil War cemeteries in Philadelphia.
Wunsch’s project is “Separate Sanctuaries: Philadelphia Rural Cemeteries Before the Civil War” and is intended to be part of a forthcoming book entitled Cemetery City. As a Fellow, Wunsch will spend time on the Washington, DC, campus of Dumbarton Oaks in the fall of 2020 to pursue his research.
Dumbarton Oaks is a Harvard University research institute, library, museum, and garden located in Washington, DC. It is one of the few institutions in the world with a program devoted to garden and landscape studies.
The Mellon Fellowships support research and scholarly programming on democracy and the urban landscape with particular attention to questions of race, identity, and difference.