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American Academy in Announces New Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows

Virtual event features Sir David Adjaye OBE and Avinoam Shalem

ROME AND NEW YORK (April 23, 2021) – The American Academy in Rome (AAR) today announced the winners of the 2021–22 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, the gift of ‘time and space to think and work’ was awarded to thirty-five American and five Italian artists and scholars. They will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome, starting in September 2021.

The Rome Prize and Italian Fellowship winners were presented virtually during the annual Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, via Zoom. The event also featured a Conversations/ Conversazioni between acclaimed architect Sir David Adjaye OBE (2016 Resident) and AAR Director Avinoam Shalem (2016 Resident), with a special introduction by Andrew Heiskell Arts Director Elizabeth Rodini. The video can be viewed on the Academy’s YouTube channel.

“We welcome these Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows who enter an increasingly global and diverse residential community, reflecting the complexity of US culture abroad,” said AAR President Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow). “The support for these scholars, artists, writers, composers, and designers strengthens the arts and humanities at a time when this is ever more critical.”

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 include: ancient studies, architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, medieval studies, modern Italian studies, music composition, Renaissance and early modern studies, and visual arts.

Nationwide, the Rome Prize Competition received 874 applications, representing 46 US states and 22 different countries. This group of Rome Prize winners is one of the most diverse in the Academy’s history. Approximately 44 percent of the winners identify as BIPOC, and 62.5 percent are women, representing a new high for each demographic, respectively. Ages of the incoming group range from 27 to 74, with an average age of 43.

In addition to the Rome Prize winners, the Academy announced the recipients of five 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.

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A full list of the 2021–22 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows, as well as the international jurors who selected them, is attached.

American Academy in Rome

Established in 1894, the American Academy in Rome (AAR) is America’s oldest overseas center for independent studies and advanced research in the arts and humanities. The Academy has since evolved to become a more global and diverse base for artists and scholars to live and work in Rome. The residential community includes a wide range of scholarly and artistic disciplines, which is representative of the United States and is fully engaged with Italy and contemporary international exchange. The support provided by the Academy to Rome Prize and Italian Fellows, and invited Residents, helps strengthen the arts and humanities.

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ANCIENT STUDIES Andrew Heiskell/ Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize Ellen Pearlstein National Endowment for the Humanities/ Adriana Maria Vazquez Professor, UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Assistant Professor, Department Program in the Conservation of Sasha-Mae Eccleston of , University of California, Archaeological and Ethnographic John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor, Los Angeles Materials and Department of Information Department of Classics, Brown University Window Reception: Brazilian Neoclassical Studies, University of California, Epic Events Poetry and Lusophone Classics Across Los Angeles the Atlantic Conservation consultation around Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Indigenous American materials— Helen M. Woodruff-Archaeological ARCHITECTURE the view from Europe Institute of America Rome Prize Kevin Ennis Rome Prize in Architecture LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, Germane Barnes Stanford University Assistant Professor, School of Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster Towards an Economic History of Women’s Architecture, University of Miami Brewster Rome Prize Work: The Archaeology of Weaving in Sicily Structuring Blackness in Rome Michael Lee from Prehistory to the Republic Reuben M. Rainey Professor in the Arnold W. Brunner/Frances Barker Tracy/ History of Landscape Architecture, Emeline Hill Richardson/ Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Department of Landscape Architecture, Arthur Ross Rome Prize Mireille Roddier and Keith Mitnick University of Virginia Grace Funsten Associate Professors, Taubman College, Ganymede’s Garden: Homoeroticism PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, University of Michigan and the Italian Landscape University of Washington Six Architectures in Search of an Author En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan Elegy Garden Club of America Rome Prize in Latin Epitaphs, Maximianus, and DESIGN Phoebe Lickwar Louise Labé Associate Professor, School of Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Architecture, University of Texas at Austin Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize Rome Prize Promiscuous Cultures: Agroecology and John Izzo Mary Ellen Carroll the Orto Urbano PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, Principal, MEC, studios, New York PUBBLICA UTILITÀ DUE (Designing Tironian Notes: Literary and Historical and Architecting the Invisible—Radio Studies on Marcus Tullius Tiro Frequency in the 21st Century) LITERATURE Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies Abigail Cohen Rome Prize SA Smythe Daniel Joseph Martinez John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize, Assistant Professor, Department of Donald Bren Professor of Art, Department a Gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Gender Studies and African American of Art, University of California, Irvine Jessica Hagedorn Studies, University of California, Forum Romanum of Dissent or To See Poet, novelist, playwright, and Los Angeles The World Without Time multimedia artist, New York Where Blackness Meets the Sea: Saturday Night At Lung Fung’s On Crisis, Culture, and the Rome Prize in Visual Art Black Mediterranean La Nietas de Nonó (Mapenzi Chibale Nonó and Rome Prize, Mulowayi Iyaye Nonó) A Gift of the Drue Heinz Trust MUSICAL COMPOSITION Artists, Carolina, Puerto Rico Robin Coste Lewis Foodtopia: después de todo territorio Writer in Residence, Department of Rome Prize English, University of Southern California Igor Santos Jules Guerin/Harold M. English To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness Composer, Chicago Rome Prize Ebb and Flow, Past and Present William Villalongo Rome Prize in Literature Associate Professor, School of Art, Valzhyna Mort Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Cooper Union Assistant Professor, Department of Rome Prize In Search of Black Atlantis Literatures in English, Cornell University Tina Tallon A Girl from Pravda Avenue Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for TERRA FOUNDATION Advanced Study, Harvard University FELLOWSHIP MEDIEVAL STUDIES Shrill Julia A. Sienkewicz Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ RENAISSANCE AND Associate Professor, Fine Arts Donald and Maria Cox Rome Prize EARLY MODERN STUDIES Department, Roanoke College Erene Rafik Morcos Forms of White Hegemony: Transnational PhD Candidate, Department of Art Marian and Andrew Heiskell/ Sculptors, Racialized Identity, and the and Archaeology, Princeton University Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize Torch of Civilization, 1836–1865 Mirroring the Reflections of the Soul: Lillian Datchev The Greco-Latin Psalter PhD Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University Additional leadership grant support for the Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon The Mercantile Origins of Early Modern Rome Prize program is provided by: Foundation Rome Prize Antiquarian Scholarship The Brown Foundation Randall Todd Pippenger The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Lecturer, Department of History, National Endowment for the Humanities Princeton University Rome Prize Endowment support provided by: Left Behind: Veterans, Widows, and Eugenio Refini Miss Edith Bloom Fund Orphans in the Era of the Crusades Associate Professor, Department of Italian Frank E. and Jaquelin G. Brown Fund Studies, New York University Clarke & Rapuano Fund MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES Ariadne’s Echo: Voice, Memory, and the Phyllis W. G. Gordan Performance of Reception Graham Foundation Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies Andrew W. Imbrie Memorial Fund Mary Jane Dempsey VISUAL ARTS in Music PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Henry E. and Marian T. Mitchell Studies, Cornell University Phillip Guston Rome Prize Fellowship Fund Remember to Forget: Migration, Gender, Firelei Báez Irene Rosenzweig Fund and Transnational Identities in Twentieth Artist, Bronx C. V. Starr Scholarship Fund Century Italy To see beyond it and to access the places Charles K. Williams II Fund that we know lie outside its walls Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies Elena Past Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize Professor, Department of Classical Autumn Knight and Modern Languages, Literatures, Artist, New York and Cultures, Wayne State University Attention Economy #FilmIsAlive: Ferrania and the Lives of Analog Film in the Digital Age Phillip Guston Rome Prize Eric N. Mack Artist, New York In Austerity the work will be stripped from its support and worn as a sarong 2020–2021 ITALIAN FELLOWS Dan-El Padilla Peralta Anna Serotta, 2015 Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Associate Conservator, Metropolitan Enel Foundation Italian Fellow Classics, Princeton University Museum of Art in Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture Verity Platt Alessio Battistella Professor, Department of Classics and Literature Architect, ARCò – Architettura Department of Art History, and Chair, e Cooperazione, Milan Department of Classics, Cornell University Francine Prose, 2006 Resident (Jury Chair) The Sustainable Lightness of the Limit Distinguished Writer in Residence, Design Bard College Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts Mark Lee, 2017 Resident (Jury Chair) T. Geronimo Johnson, 2018 Fellow Manuele Cerutti Founder and Partner, Johnston MarkLee, Writer, Berkeley, California Artist, Turin Los Angeles Secret Companions Sandra Lim Irma Boom, 2018 Resident Associate Professor, Department Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Modern Founder and Principal, Irma Boom Office, of English, University of Italian Studies Amsterdam Massachusetts, Lowell Beatrice Falcucci PhD Candidate, Department of Letters Stephen Burks Sigrid Nunez, 2001 Fellow and Philosophy, Università degli Studi Founder and Principal, Stephen Burks Writer in Residence, Boston University di Firenze Man Made Exhibiting the Empire: colonial collections Brenda Shaughnessy in Piedmont Mikyoung Kim Professor, Department of English, Founding Principal, Mikyoung Kim Rutgers University, Newark Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Design, Boston Architecture, Urban Design, and Medieval Studies Landscape Architecture Leslie Lokko Valerio Morabito Professor, Founder, and Director, William Jordan, 2018 Resident (Jury Chair) Architect and Professor, Università African Futures Institute Dayton-Stockton Professor of Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria and History, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania Anuradha Mathur Princeton University Imagining American Cities Professor, Landscape Architecture Department, Stuart Weitzman School of Hussein Fancy, 2017 Fellow Italian Fellow in Modern Italian Studies Design, University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor, Department Rosa Sessa of History, University of Michigan Research Fellow in History of Mabel O. Wilson Architecture, Department of Architecture, Nancy and George Rupp Professor Areli Marina, 2001 Fellow Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II of Architecture, Graduate School of Associate Professor, Kress Foundation Architecture as Cultural Bridge: Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Department of Art History, University Reception and Dissemination of the Italian Columbia University of Kansas Architecture in the Italian– American Discourse of the Postwar Era Marina Rustow, 2007 Fellow Historic Preservation and Conservation Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, 2020 ROME PRIZE JURORS Rahul Mehrotra, 2017 Resident (Jury Chair) Department of Near Eastern Studies, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Princeton University Ancient Studies Urbanization, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Founding Principal, Nicholas Watson Mary Ann Eaverly (Jury Chair) RMA Architects, Mumbai and Boston Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of Professor of Classics and Department English Literature, Department of English, Chair, Department of Classics, University Jorge L. Hernandez Harvard University of Florida Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Miami; and Founding Modern Italian Studies Sarah Levin-Richardson, 2015 Fellow Principal, JLH Architect, Coral Associate Professor, Department of Gables, Florida Anna Harwell Celenza (Jury Chair) Classics University of Washington Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Bryony Roberts, 2016 Fellow Music, Department of Performing Arts, Jackie Murray, 2012 Fellow Founding Director, Bryony Roberts Studio; Georgetown University Associate Professor of Classics, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Department of Modern and Classical School of Architecture, Planning, Mark I. Choate Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and Preservation, Columbia University Associate Professor, Department of University of Kentucky History, Brigham Young University Mark Chu Anthony Grafton, 2004 Resident Professor, Department of Italian, Henry Putnam Professor, Department of University College Cork History Princeton University

Vivien M. Greene, 2004 Fellow Visual Arts Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Adam D. Weinberg, 2020 Resident (Jury Chair) Guggenheim Museum Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art Joseph Luzzi Professor of Comparative Literature Teresita Fernández, 1999 Affiliated Fellow, and Faculty Member in Italian Studies, 2018 Resident Bard College Artist, Brooklyn

Musical Composition Ann Hamilton, 2017 Resident Artist and Distinguished University Suzanne Farrin, 2018 Fellow (Jury Chair) Professor, Ohio State University Frayda B. Lindemann Professor of Music, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, Byron Kim City University of New York Artist, Brooklyn

Andy Akiho, 2015 Fellow Glenn Ligon, 2020 Resident Composer, New York and Artist, Brooklyn Portland, Oregon Helen O’Leary, 2019 Fellow Jonathan Berger, 2017 Fellow Artist and Professor of Art, School of Denning Family Provostial Professor Visual Arts, Pennsylvania State University in Music, Department of Music, Stanford University Walid Raad Artist and Professor, Cooper Union Tania J. León, 1998 Resident Distinguished Professor Emerita, City Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellowship University of New York; and Composer, in Rome Conductor, Founder, and Artistic Director, Composers Now Winners of this award are selected through a joint effort of the Terra Lei Liang, 2012 Fellow Foundation Fellowship jury (listed below) Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of and the Rome Prize Jury for Modern Music, Department of Music, University of Italian Studies. California, San Diego Mark D. Mitchell (Jury Chair) Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Lisa Pon (Jury Chair) Art Gallery Professor, Dornsife Department of Art History, University of Southern California Silvia Bottinelli Senior Lecturer, Visual and Material Renée Baernstein, 1991 Fellow Studies Department, School of the Professor of History and Senior Associate Museum of Fine Arts–Tufts University Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Miami University Erica E. Hirshler Croll Senior Curator of American Virginia Cox Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Professor of Italian, Department of Italian Studies, New York University Crawford Alexander Mann III Curator of Prints and Drawings, Anthony M. Cummings, 2012 Resident Smithsonian American Art Museum Professor of Music and Coordinator of Italian Studies, Lafayette College