Charlotte Leib

Researcher in Residence, 2019

Charlotte Leib is currently a PHD candidate in the history department at Yale University. Her work focuses on histories of the built environment, landscape architecture, and the perceptions, representations and repercussions of environmental and technological change in North America during the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. At Oak Spring, she carried out research for the project, ‘Surveying Sites Unseen: Trees, Representation and Power,’ which investigates the ways that trees were represented by American surveyors, scientists, and  artists in the late 19th-century.  Learn more about her here.