Thaisa Way

Thaisa Way FASLA, FAAR, BS UC Berkeley, M’ArchH UVa, PhD Cornell University is a landscape historian whose research and teaching engage history, theory, and design. After 15 years in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle she has taken on the leadership of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute under the stewardship of the Trustees of Harvard University. In this position she stewards emerging scholarship in histories and narratives of land, place, and landscape as well as serving as the Principal Investigator for the Mellon funded initiative.