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Current Rome Prize Winners

ANCIENT STUDIES

Emeline Hill Richardson/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
SCOTT CRAVER
McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
Patterns of Complexity: An Index and Analysis of Urban Property Investment at Pompeii

Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
JONATHAN P. CONANT
Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of San Diego
Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700

Frank Brown/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one of a two-year fellowship)
LAUREN M. KINNEE
New York University Institute of Fine Arts
The Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Emblem of Power

Lily Auchincloss Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
SUSANNA McFADDEN
Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art and Music
Fordham University
Articulating Power and Status in Late Antique Rome: A Study of Late Roman Pictorial Constellations

Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
DARIAN TOTTEN
Department of Classics and the Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University
Scales of Connectivity in the Late Antique Landscape: Economic Networks in Southern Italy

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
LELA URQUHART
Department of Classics and the Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University
Colonial Religion and Indigenous Society in the Western Mediterranean: Impact, Interactions, and Integrations.


ARCHITECTURE

Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize
LARS LERUP
William Ward Watkin Professor and Dean, School of Architecture
Rice University
After Pantheon: Monuments, Phobias, Awe and their Proxies

Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize
KIEL MOE
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Northeastern University
The Thermodynamic Figuration of Rome


DESIGN

Rolland Rome Prize
RUSSELL MARET
Designer/Letterpress Printer/Publisher
Swan & Hoop, New York, NY
The Subterranean Antique Letter

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
ADRIAN VAN ALLEN
Multimedia Specialist/Exhibit Developer
Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
Scientiae Historia Romae: An Interactive Map

HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION

National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
MATTHEW BRONSKI
Senior Staff I - Building Technology
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Waltham, MA
In the Footsteps of Vitruvius: Durability Lessons Learned from In-Situ Diagnostic Studies of Original Construction Details

Booth Family Rome Prize
JON CALAME
Partner & Operations Officer
Minerva Partners, Portland, ME
Prototypes for Divided Cities: The 16th c. Jewish Ghettos of Venice, Rome, Ferrara, Bologna, and Florence

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Garden Club of America Rome Prize
ROBERT HAMMOND
Co-Founder & President
Friends of the Highline, New York, NY
Exploring the Tiber

LITERATURE

Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
PETER CAMPION
Poet and Assistant Professor
Auburn University
El Dorado

John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
ELIZA GRISWOLD
Writer, The New America Foundation
New York, NY
Tenth Parallel

MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
AURELIA D’ANTONIO
Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University
Throwing Stones at Friars: The Church of San Francesco in Piacenza

Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
ANNIE MONTGOMERY LABATT
Department of the History of Art, Yale University
In Search of the “Eastern” Image: Sacred Painting in Eighth and Ninth Century Rome

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
JASON MORALEE
Associate Professor, Department of History
Illinois Wesleyan University
Rome's Holy Mountain: The Rise and Fall of the Capitoline Hill

MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

Paul Mellon/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
LUCA CAMINATI
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literature and the Department of Film & Media Studies
Colgate University
The Real Realist: Rossellini, Documentary and the Formation of Neorealist Cinema

Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
EILEEN RYAN
Department of History, Columbia University
Italian Reconquest of Libya and Relations with the Sanusiya 1922-1931

Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
RICHARD WITTMAN
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art & Architecture
University of California, Santa Barbara
S. Paolo fuori le Mura (1823-1930): Architecture, Publicity, and the Invention of Tradition

MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize
LISA BIELAWA
Composer-in-Residence, Boston Modern Orchestra Project
New work for Brooklyn Rider String Quartet and Lisa Bielawa, composer-vocalist

Samuel Barber Rome Prize
DON BYRON
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Music
University at Albany, State University of New York
A chamber opera based on the novel and film, Gentleman’s Agreement


RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one of a two-year fellowship)
KATHRYN BLAIR MOORE
New York University Institute of Fine Arts
Italian Copies of Holy Land Architecture: The Illustrated Versions of Niccolò da Poggibonsi’s Libro d’Oltramare

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
NICK WILDING
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Georgia State University
Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Republic of Knowledge

VISUAL ARTS

Jesse Howard, Jr./Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
TERRY ADKINS
Professor, Department of Fine Arts
University of Pennsylvania
Flumen Orationis

Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
ABIGAIL CHILD
Filmmaker and Professor, Film Animation
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
THE PURSUIT: scenes, created in the form of imaginary home movies, from the life of Percy and Mary Shelley

Abigail Cohen Rome Prize
NANCY DAVENPORT
Artist, New York, NY
Pasolini Extras

Jules Guerin/John Armstrong Chaloner Rome Prize
STEPHEN WESTFALL
Artist, New York, NY
Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Painting Co-chair, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College
New Paintings in a New Old City




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