The Dumbarton Oaks Papers (DOP) were founded in 1941for the publication of articles relating to late antique, early medieval, andByzantine civilization in the fields of art and architecture, history, archaeology,literature, theology, and law. Publication was suspended during World War II,and resumed in 1946 as collections of occasional papers, primarily by facultymembers resident at the research institute. At first, DOP appearedirregularly, but in the mid-1950s it began to be published on an annual basis.It now includes articles by a wide array of international Byzantinists and featurespapers from annual symposia, miscellaneous articles, and reports on fieldworkprojects sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks. Volumes currently average 300-400 pages.Since 1999 (Vol. 53) DOP has been made available in digital formthrough the Dumbarton Oaks website at http://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/dumbarton-oaks-papers

Dumbarton Oaks is a research institute, located in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., that includes collections of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, as well as a collection of manuscripts, drawings, prints, and rare books relating to all aspects of garden history. The institute is housed on an estate formerly owned by Robert Woods and Mildred Barnes Bliss, who conveyed their house, art collections, and gardens to Harvard University in 1940. There are three programs of research at Dumbarton Oaks: Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies, and studies in the history of gardens and landscape architecture. The institute offers fellowships in all three areas of study, and also organizes symposia, colloquia, seminars, and public lectures. The research is supported by an extensive library of approximately 250,000 volumes and by major photo archives.