Stilted riverfront houses and fishing boats along a dry-season stream in Kompong Khleang, Cambodia, photographed during field research on the Tonlé Sap floodplain. Courtesy of Tami Banh.
Stilted riverfront houses and fishing boats along a dry-season stream in Kompong Khleang, Cambodia, photographed during field research on the Tonlé Sap floodplain. Courtesy of Tami Banh.
The Department of Landscape Architecture seeks qualified applicants for selection as the McHarg Fellow for the 2026-2027 academic year.
The McHarg Fellowship is a teaching and research award given by the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology to an emerging voice in landscape architecture and its related fields. The Fellowship is awarded competitively on an annual basis and the selected fellow is expected to be in residence at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, full-time for the academic year. The purpose of the Fellowship is to create a unique opportunity for an emerging professional and/or academic who would benefit most from support to conduct research, to teach, and to be mentored by faculty during the term of the fellowship. The award includes $75,000 paid as salary to the fellow and an additional $4,000 awarded as a discretionary stipend for travel, research, and exhibition-related expenses during the academic year.
The application deadline for the 2026-2027 academic year is Wednesday, December 31, 2025.
For her project Shared Waters, Divided Landscapes, 2025-2026 McHarg Fellow Tami Banh explores how cultural landscapes, governance frameworks, and ecological practices shape the Mekong River across national boundaries, examining how policies, traditional knowledge, and representations of the river influence its physical and cultural transformations. Through field and archival research, comparative study, and community engagement, the work explores alternative frameworks for understanding and designing within contested and dynamic waterscapes
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