American Academy in Announces New Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows Artists and scholars given time and space to think and work in Rome

New York and Rome (April 9, 2019) – The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2019–20 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, Rome Prizes were awarded to thirty American and six Italian artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five to eleven months at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome. The winners of the Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships were presented on April 9, 2019, during the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York.

The Academy is pleased to award two new Fellowships this year. The first is the Philip Guston Rome Prize in Visual Arts, established by Musa and Thomas Mayer in memory of the artist Philip Guston. This Fellowship further marks Guston’s long-standing relationship with the Academy and the city of Rome, as a Fellow (1949), Resident (1971), and Trustee (1969–76). AAR will also award the inaugural Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize in Historic Preservation. This Fellowship recognizes the indelible influence and impact that Chatfield-Taylor has had on both her discipline and our institution.

After an introduction by Cary Davis, Chair of the Board of Trustees, the winners of the 2019– 20 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships were presented by Mark Robbins, the Academy’s President and CEO (1997 Fellow). The ceremony also featured a dialogue between AAR Director John Ochsendorf (2008 Fellow) and Melissa Lane, Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University (2018 Resident), about “Integrity and Public Office: Classical Greek and Roman Perspectives.” The discussion was part of the programming series Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, sponsored by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.

Rome Prize winners are selected annually by independent juries of distinguished artists and scholars through a national competition. The eleven disciplines supported by the Academy are: Literature, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Historic Preservation and Conservation, as well as Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Modern Italian Studies. Nationwide, 982 applications were received from 42 US states plus Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC. The ages of the winners range from 28 to 68.

In addition to the Rome Prize winners, the Academy announced the recipients of six Italian Fellowships, through which Italian artists and scholars live and work in the Academy community, pursuing their own projects in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment with their American counterparts. The Italian Fellows are also selected through a national jury process.

A full list of the 2019–20 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows, as well as the names and institutional affiliations of the jurors, is attached.

American Academy in Rome

Founded in 1894, the American Academy in Rome is the oldest American overseas center for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. It is the only privately funded not-for-profit institution among the national academies in Rome. In addition to the Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships, the Academy invites a select group of Residents, Affiliated Fellows, and Visiting Artists and Scholars to work together within this exceptional community. To learn more about the American Academy in Rome, please visit aarome.org.

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Christine Gorby Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University Writing, Inherited Tradition, and Design: ’s “Complexity The 2019–2020 and Contradiction in Architecture” Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Rome Prize winners Michael Young Assistant Professor, Irwin S. Chanin and Italian Fellows School of Architecture, Cooper Union; Partner, Young & Ayata The Labor Within the Image of the Poché Meet the American Academy in Rome’s newest group of scholars, artists, writers, and composers, representing some of the most DESIGN talented minds in the United States and Italy. Rolland Rome Prize Marsha Ginsberg Performance Designer, New York, NY The dreamworlds of the utopian future of the past ANCIENT STUDIES Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize Rome Prize Roberto Lugo Daniel P. Diffendale Artist, Philadelphia, PA Research Fellow, Department of Valor in Vandalism: Ancient Mediterranean Studies, A Revolutionary Triptych University of Missouri Quarry provenance and Archaeological HISTORIC PRESERVATION Dating of the Roman-Area Tuffs in AND CONSERVATION Antiquity (QUADRATA) Booth Family Rome Prize Arthur Ross Rome Prize Jeremy A. Simmon’s project stems from Matthew Brennan Brian McPhee his research on trade between ancient PhD Candidate, School of Informatics, PhD Candidate, Department of Rome and India, examining representa- Computing, and Engineering, Indiana , University of North Carolina tive commodities and their consumption University - Bloomington at Chapel Hill in new environments, as well as demon- 3D digitization of the Accademia at Blessed Heroes: Apollonius’ strating how patterns of consumption Hadrian’s Villa and its digital preservation Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns and industry interlock to facilitate the consumer experience. Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Ashley J. Hahn Helen M. Woodruff-Archaeological Andrew Heiskell/Andrew W. Mellon Writer, Philadelphia, PA Institute of America Rome Prize* Foundation Rome Prize Preserving the life between buildings Victoria C. Moses Christopher van den Berg PhD Candidate, School of Anthropology, Associate Professor, Department of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE University of Arizona Classics, Amherst College The Zooarchaeology of Early Rome: Critical Matter: Performance, Identity, and Prince Charitable Trusts/ Meat Distribution and Urbanization Object in Greco-Roman Criticism Kate Lancaster Brewer Rome Prize (8th–6th centuries BCE) Brian Davis Samuel H. Kress Foundation Rome Prize Assistant Professor, Department Emeline Hill Richardson/ Parrish Elizabeth Wright of Landscape Architecture, Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize PhD Candidate, Interdepartmental Cornell University Jeremy A. Simmons Program in Greek and Roman History, The Aesthetics of Risk Equipment PhD Candidate, Classical Studies University of Michigan Graduate Program, Competing Narratives of Identity and Beyond the Periyar: A History of Urbanism in Central and Southern Italy, Consumption in Indo-Mediterranean Trade 750 BCE–100 BCE * year two of a two-year fellowship Donald and Maria Cox/Samuel H. Kress Corey Tazzara Foundation Rome Prize Assistant Professor, Department of Alexis Wang History, Scripps College PhD Candidate, Department of Baroque Pilgrimage: The World of Art History and Archaeology, Pietro della Valle Columbia University Intermedial Effects, Sanctified Surfaces: VISUAL ARTS Framing Devotional Objects in Italian Medieval Mural Decoration Philip Guston Rome Prize Garrett Bradley MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES Artist, New Orleans, LA Public Symbols and Singular Identities Fiori Berhane PhD Candidate, Department of David Brooks Anthropology, Brown University Artist, Brooklyn, NY Italo-Eritrea: Tracing a Post-Colonial Italy Rome’s Future Ruins in Reverse in the Contemporary Migration Crisis Abigail Cohen Rome Prize Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ James Casebere Preservationist/creative nonfiction writer National Endowment for the Humanities Artist, Canaan, New York Ashley Hahn, winner of the first Adele Rome Prize On the Waters’ Edge Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize, plans to explore lessons from successful and failed Angelo Caglioti Assistant Professor, Department Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize attempts to preserve Rome’s historic of History, Barnard College, Sarah Crowner urban complex holistically (buildings and Columbia University Artist, Brooklyn, NY the spaces in between) in search of more The Climate of Fascism: Science, Building into Painting expansive approaches to preserving the Environment and Empire in Liberal and commons. Fascist Italy (1860–1960) Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize John Jesurun Garden Club of America Rome Prize MUSICAL COMPOSITION Playwright, Director, Media Artist, Kate Thomas New York, NY K. Laurence Stapleton Professor of Rome Prize Ellipse English, Bryn Mawr College Courtney Bryan Nymphaeums, Grottos and the “Pink Lily”: Assistant Professor, Newcomb Additional leadership grant support for the Lesbian Gardens in fin-de-siècle Italy Department of Music, Tulane University Rome Prize program is provided by: Caracalla: Inner Monologue of an Emperor, The Brown Foundation LITERATURE a melodrama National Endowment for the Arts The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Rome Prize Frederic A. Juilliard/ A gift of the Drue Heinz Trust Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Endowment support provided by: Samiya Bashir ​Pamela Z Frank E. and Jaquelin G. Brown Fund Associate Professor, Department Composer and Performer, Anthony Clark Memorial Fund of English, Creative Writing Program, San Francisco, CA Clarke & Rapuano Fund Reed College Simultaneous Phyllis W.G. Gordan MAPS :: a cartography in progress Graham Foundation RENAISSANCE AND Andrew W. Imbrie Memorial Fund John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize EARLY MODERN STUDIES in Music A gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Henry E. and Marian T. Mitchell Nicole Sealey National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Fund Executive Director, Cave Canem Rome Prize C.V. Starr Scholarship Fund Foundation, Inc. New York, NY Evan A. MacCarthy Instigation of Dement Assistant Professor of Musicology, School of Music, West Virginia University MEDIEVAL STUDIES Ugolino of Orvieto and the Encyclopedic Study of Music in Fifteenth-Century Italy Marian and Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize Joel Pattison Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon PhD Candidate, Department of History, Foundation Rome Prize University of California, Berkeley Alana Mailes Trade and Religious Boundaries in the Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music, Medieval Maghreb: Genoese Merchants, Harvard University their Products, and Islamic Law Musica Transalpina: English Musicians in the Italian Peninsula, c.1580–1660 2019 ROME PRIZE JURORS

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John Bodel, 1983 Fellow, 2006 Resident (Jury Chair) W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History, Brown University

Laurel Fulkerson Associate Vice President for Research and Professor, Department of Classics, The Florida State University

Margaret L. Laird, 2000 Fellow Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Delaware

Molly Swetnam-Burland As the inaugural Philip Guston Rome Prize winner in Visual Arts, filmmaker Garrett Associate Professor, Department Bradley will explore the “talking statues of Rome,” a series of historical objects repre- of Classical Studies, The College of senting both singular mythologies and contradictory, public discourse, in juxtaposition William and Mary to vacant spaces left by the removal of Confederate-era statues in her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana. Katharina Volk Professor, Department of Classics, Columbia University 2019–2020 ITALIAN FELLOWS ENEL Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture, Urban Design and DESIGN Marcello Lotti Italian Fellow in Music Landscape Architecture Zeno Baldi Giovanna Silva Anita de la Rosa Berrizbeitia, 2006 Fellow Composer, Verona, Italy Architect, Milan, Italy (Jury Chair) Piano / Percussion Quartet A Roman Journey Chair, Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts Architectural historian Giuliana Julia Czerniak Corinna Gosmaro Mosca’s project aims to explore the role Professor and Associate Dean, School of Artist, Turin, Italy of architecture in the social and cultural Architecture, Syracuse University Trigger: The Gebelein Canvas rise of the Santacroce family, who gained increasing prestige and power during Mario Gooden Tiffany & Co. Italian Fellow in Design the fifteenth century, through in-depth Principal, Huff + Gooden Architects, Eugenia Morpurgo analysis of structures the family built in New York, NY; Associate Professor of Designer, Venice, Italy Rome and in Lazio. Professional Practice, Graduate School of Syntropic Materials Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Lisa Iwamoto Giuliana Mosca Principal Adjunct Professor, Department of IWAMOTOSCOTT, San Francisco, CA; Architecture, Università di Roma Tre Professor of Architecture, College The Architectural Patronage of the of Environmental Design, University of Santacroce Family in Rome and Lazio California, Berkeley (XV–XVI centuries) Zoë Ryan Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Ancient Studies Architecture and Design, Art Institute Federica Nicolardi of Chicago Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Naples Federico II Georgianna Stout Life of an Eminent Court Philosopher: Founding Partner and Creative Director, Tracing Hellenistic History and 2x4, New York, NY Scholarship through the Vita Philonidis HISTORIC PRESERVATION Katherine L. Jansen, 1995 Fellow, RENAISSANCE AND EARLY AND CONSERVATION 2014 Resident MODERN STUDIES Ordinary Professor and Chair, Suzanne Deal Booth (Jury Chair) Department of History, The Catholic Eileen Reeves (Jury Chair) Co-Founder and Director, Friends of University of America Professor of Comparative Literature, Heritage Preservation, Austin, TX Princeton University Daniel Weiss Thompson Mayes, 2014 Fellow President and CEO, Metropolitan Massimo Ciavolella Vice President and Senior Counsel, Museum of Art Professor, Department of Italian, National Trust for Historic Preservation, University of California, Los Angeles Washington, D.C. MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES Thomas V. Cohen, 1992 Fellow Ellen Pearlstein Emily Braun (Jury Chair) Professor, Department of History, Professor, UCLA Department of Distinguished Professor, Department of York University Information Studies, Interdepartmental Art and Art History, Hunter College and Program in the Conservation of the Graduate Center, CUNY Thomas Forrest Kelly, 1986 Fellow, Archaeological and Ethnographic 2002 Resident Materials, University of California, L. Scott Lerner Morton B. Knafel Research Professor of Los Angeles Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor Music, Harvard University of Humanities and French and Italian, LITERATURE Department of Italian, Franklin & Louise Rice, 1986 + 1995 Fellow, Marshall College 2008 Resident Mary Caponegro, 1992 Fellow (Jury Chair) Associate Professor, Department of Art Writer and Richard B. Fisher Family Stanislao G. Pugliese History, New York University Professor in Literature and Writing, Queensboro Unico Distinguished Bard College Professor of Italian and Italian American VISUAL ARTS Studies, Department of History, Hofstra Cornelius Eady University Adam D. Weinberg (Jury Chair) Poet and Professor of English, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Stony Brook University David Rifkind Whitney Museum of American Art Associate Professor, Department of Rivka Galchen Architecture & Chair, Department of Richard Barnes, 2006 Fellow Writer and Assistant Professor, School of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Photographer/Artist, Beacon, NY the Arts, Columbia University and Urban Design, Florida International University Suzanne Bocanegra, 1991 Fellow Paul La Farge Artist, New York, NY Writer, Upstate New York Mary Ann Smart Gladyce Arata Terrill Chair, Department of Cecily Brown Artist, New York, NY Liz Moore, 2015 Fellow Music, University of California, Berkeley Writer-in-Residence, Temple University MUSICAL COMPOSITION Chon Noriega MEDIEVAL STUDIES Curator & Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Martin Brody, 2002 Resident (Jury Chair) William Chester Jordan, 2018 Resident Catherine Mills Davis Professor Emeritus Judy Pfaff, 1988 Resident (Jury Chair) of Music, Wellesley College Artist and Professor of Studio Art, Dayton-Stockton Professor of Bard College, Tivoli, NY History, Department of History, Alan Fletcher Princeton University President and CEO, Aspen Music Festival Enrico Riley, 2017 Fellow and School Artist & Professor of Studio Art, Christopher Baswell Dartmouth College Professor of English and Comparative Rand Steiger, 1986 Fellow Literature, Department of Classics, Distinguished Professor, Conrad Prebys Columbia University and Barnard College Presidential Chair, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego Ardis Butterfield Marie Borroff Professor of English, Barbara White Professor of French, and Professor of Professor, Department of Music, Music, Yale University Princeton University