Jason W. Dean, 2020

 Researcher in Residence, 2020 

 Jason is the Vice President for Special Collections at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri. His research interests include special collections administration, American color printing, the work of Carl Hertzog, the life and work of S. Fred Prince(1857-1949), and metadata for rare books and special collections. Along with fellow OSGF researcher in residence Sarah Burke Cahalan, he is working on a book project focused on the work of Prince, a self-taught naturalist and scientific illustrator. Learn more about Jason at www.jasonwdean.com/. 

Gabriela Lamy, 2020

 Researcher in Residence, 2020 

Gabriela is a researcher at the Palace of Versailles Research Center  in Versailles, France.  For her OSGF residency, she will view library materials related to the plant exchange at Versaille in the late 1700s, in order to support her research tracing the palace’s plant records and the plant exchange in the Atlantic Empire.

Samuel Lemley, 2020

Researcher in Residence, 2020

Samuel is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He plans to spend his time at OSGF working on several projects: two article-length bibliographical essays on Geoffroy Linocier’s Histoire des Plantes (1619) and Paul Contant’s Les Oeuvres (1628), and revisions for his doctoral dissertation, which studies antiquarianism in seventeenth century England.

Sarah Burke Cahalan, 2020

Researcher in Residence, 2020 

 Sarah is the director of the Marian Library at the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH, the world’s largest collection of printed materials on the Virgin Mary.   Along with Jason W. Dean, she is working on an exhibit and book project focused on the life and work of illustrator and naturalist S. Fred Prince, Jr. (1857-1949), whom they both have been researching for several years.  Learn more about Sarah at https://sarahburkecahalan.com. 

Rachel Koroloff, 2019

Researcher in Residence, 2019

Rachel Koroloff is a historian whose work focuses on the creation and maintenance of Russia’s botanical and medical gardens from the seventeenth through the eighteenth centuries. She is currently an early-career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg University of Göttingen in Germany, where she is finishing her book, An Empire in Flower: Russia’s Gardens Between East and West, 1630 to 1760. Learn more about her here. 

Charlotte Leib, 2019

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. 

Candace Thompson, 2019

Researcher in Residence, 2019 

Candace Thompson is a performer and media maker, who has “always been fascinated by the feedback loops generated by place, culture, identity, gender, race, climate, politics, and simple human interaction.”  Their many projects include films, web projects, audiobooks, music and ritualistic interventions  “that challenge and examine the truths we purportedly hold to be self-evident.” Learn more about their projects by following them on Instagram at @thec_u_r_b. 

Janet Tyson, 2020

Researcher in Residence, 2020 

Janet Tyson is currently a PhD candidate in history at Birkbeck, University of London. In early 2020, she spent two weeks at Oak Spring working on her doctoral dissertation, which examines A Curious Herbal  - an encyclopedia of of medicinal plants illustrated by 18th century Scottish botanical artist Elizabeth Blackwell  - within the contexts of Georgian London and of similar books available at the time.     

Of her time at Oak Spring, Janet said, “This has been an invaluable experience. I've been exposed to an awful lot of things here instead of chasing all over the place. To be able to be a resident and to just walk over to the library everyday and look at these things, and the way it works I can just ask for something and Tony's just able to get it - other libraries you have to wait an hour. It's just very, very different.”

Read more about Janet’s research on our blog.