Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Whittemore died last June, Sterling Dow '25, Hudson Professor of Archaeology, became domestic director of the Institute. Dumbarton Oaks contributed Paul A. Underwood, associate professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, as field director. He is now in Istanbul supervising the last stages of the uncovering of the mosaics...
...other main center of Byzantine study is the University's Dumbarton Oaks group in Washington, D. C.--probably known by the public for the conferences held there by diplomats in 1944 to start planning for the United Nations...
Bliss gave Dumbarton Oaks to the University in 1940 as a place dedicated solely to Byzantine and Medieval humanities. He acquired the estate in 1930 and began to collect the nucleus of what is today the Collection and the Research Library...
...Dumbarton Oaks, as a department of the University, aims to carry on original and creative studies of the Eastern Roman Empire. The permanent faculty of seven now outnumbers the student body by one. No formal classes are held but there are occasional lectures and symposiums. Individual research is going on constantly...
...members of the Dumbarton Oaks faculty will teach at the College next semester a fine arts course will be given by the Byzantine expert Father Francis Dvornik, professor of Byzantine History, who recently came to the U.S. after fleeing the Communist government in Czechoslovakia; and Granville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature, will teach the "Eastern Roman Empire to Justinan...