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 🔗The Sally Boasberg Founder’s Fellowship

  • Fellowship
  • Washington D.C., DC
  • $25.00 USD / Hour
  • Applications have closed
  • April 4, 2025
  • Job Summary: The recipient will work at TCLF’s offices in Washington, D.C.’s, Dupont Circle neighborhood and develop proficiency in the research, documentation, and advocacy of cultural landscapes.
  • Job Qualifications:
    • Excellent writing and editing skills;
    • Excellent research skills, particularly involving historic-preservation documents, academic journals, and online sources;
    • A good photographic eye;
    • Photoshop experience;
    • Experience with or knowledge of landscape architecture and its history;
    • Student or recent graduate in landscape architecture, historic preservation, or a closely related field.
  • How to Apply:

    A cover letter, resume, and brief writing sample are required, the latter ideally consisting of two pages or less and concerning a designed landscape or landscape architect. A portfolio is not required. Send application materials as PDF attachments using the subject line “Boasberg Fellowship – Your Name” to graylin@tclf.org. *Additionally, indicate in your cover letter whether you would like to be considered for other 2025 summer fellowships with TCLF.

  • Job benefits: Housing in Washington, DC.
  • Contact Name: Graylin Harrison
  • Application Email: graylin@tclf.org
  • Application URL: https://www.tclf.org/about/seeking-best-and-brightest-2025-fellowships

Website The Cultural Landscape Foundation

A non-profit established in 1998, The Cultural Landscape Foundation® (TCLF) connects people to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards. TCLF achieves this mission through the ongoing development of its four core programs: >What’s Out There®, North America’s largest and most exhaustive database of cultural landscapes; >Pioneers of American Landscape Design®, an in-depth multimedia library, inclusive of video oral histories, chronicling the lives of significant landscape architects and educators; >Landslide®, an ongoing collection of important landscapes and landscape features that are threatened; >The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize®, a biennial prize in landscape architecture that includes a US$100,000 monetary award and two years of public engagement activities.

Established in 2012, the Boasberg Fellowship honors the late Sarah S. (Sally) Boasberg, a founding member of TCLF’s Board of Directors, who had a profound appreciation for the relevance of design and an encyclopedic knowledge of plants. Sally and her husband, Tersh, were instrumental in the formation of TCLF, helping to pen the organization’s Articles of Incorporation in 1997 and remaining active as it evolved. Read more about Sally’s life and legacy here.

Open to graduate students and recent alumni interested in the built environment, the paid summer fellowship runs from six to eight weeks and offers a range of opportunities designed to provide a productive and educational experience. The Fellow will work alongside TCLF’s president and CEO Charles A. Birnbaum and the rest of the staff on TCLF’s core programming, including the What’s Out There, Landslide, and Pioneers programs. The work will be an engaging mix of research and content development and will also offer the opportunity to pursue professional interests. The start date is somewhat flexible. Housing in Dupont Circle is included. Read more about the fellowship here.