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2008-2009 Rome Prize Winners

ANCIENT STUDIES

Emeline Hill Richardson/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one 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

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
SUSAN A. CURRY
Department of Classical Studies, Indiana University
Human Identities and Animal Others in the Second Century C.E.

Frances Barker Tracy/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
JOHN N. N. HOPKINS
Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin
The Topographical Transformation of Archaic Rome: A New Interpretation of Architecture and Geography in the Early City

Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
PATRICIA LARASH
Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Boston University
Martial's Readers, Rome's Audiences

Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
MATTHEW NOTARIAN
Department of Classics, University at Buffalo
Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Latium: An Archaeological and Social History of Praeneste, Tibur and Tusculum

National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
HÉRICA VALLADARES
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University
On Tenderness: The Semantics of Love in Roman Painting and Poetry

ARCHITECTURE

Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize
MATTHEW HURAL
Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Virginia
Designer, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
Between Inside and Out. Aurelian Gates

Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize
URSULA EMERY McCLURE & MICHAEL A. McCLURE
Principals, emerymcclure architecture
Terra Viscus: Hybrid Tectonic Precedent

DESIGN

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
DAVID ERDMAN
Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles
Principal, davidclovers
Plasticity Now

Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize
CATHY LANG HO
Independent Writer and Editor
Broadband Architecture: A study of how new media outlets are challenging the authority of print publications

HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION

National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
ANDREW J. KRANIS
Decor Project Manager, Whole Foods Market
Green Piazza: Community Ecology in the City

Booth Family Rome Prize
ROSA LOWINGER
Conservator of Sculpture and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Art Vandalism: A Comprehensive Study of its Causes and Effects, With an Emphasis on Conservation of Contemporary Public Art

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
CHRIS COUNTS
Senior Associate, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc., Landscape Architects
Painting and Drawing as a Means to Study the Spatial Registration, Appropriated Use, and Movement of Masterpieces of the Italian Urban Landscape

Garden Club of America Rome Prize
HOPE H. HASBROUCK
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
Interpreting Cultural Territories Through Prospect and Passage

LITERATURE

John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
BRAD KESSLER
Writer
Editing The Goat Diaries and starting a new novel

Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
DANA SPIOTTA
Writer

Unnamed Novel

MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
CARRIE BENES
Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History, New College of Florida
SPQR Transformed: Post-Classical Fortunes of a Classical Acronym

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year two of a two-year fellowship)
ERIK GUSTAFSON
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Tradition and Renewal in the Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Architecture of Tuscany

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

National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
JOHN PARKER
Associate Professor, Department of English, Macalester College
Drama and the Death of God, or The Gospel of Seneca

MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
MARGARET FISHER
Video Director and Publisher, Second Evening Art / BMI
Through the eyes of children: a re-assessment of the role of futurism in the development of early Italian Radio under Fascism

Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
GREGORY TENTLER
History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Made in Italy: Piero Manzoni and the Birth of the International Avant-Garde 1954-1963

MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Luciano Berio Rome Prize
KEERIL MAKAN
Assistant Professor of Music, Music and Theater Arts Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Three new works: Hover for electric guitar and orchestra; a trio for flute, viola, and harp; and Tracker, a chamber opera

Elliott Carter Rome Prize
KURT ROHDE
Assistant Professor, Composition/Theory, Department of Music, University of California, Davis
Co-director, The Empyrean Ensemble
Artistic Director, The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Composition of Two New Works: A Violin Concertino for violinist Axel Strauss, and a puppet opera entitled “A Shadow Opera”

RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES

Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
ERIC BIANCHI
Department of Music, Yale University
Center of the World: Athanasius Kircher at the Jesuit Colleges of Rome

Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
ELIZABETH McCAHILL
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of the South
Reinventing Rome: 1400-1450

VISUAL ARTS

John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
HISHAM M. BIZRI
Filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Film, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
Screenplay: The Last Day of Summer

Harold M. English Rome Prize
DAVID HUMPHREY
Artist and Instructor, School of Art, Yale University
Blind Handshake

Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
MARIE LORENZ
Artist, Brooklyn, NY
Tiber River Navigation

Abigail Cohen Rome Prize
MATTHEW MONTEITH
Artist/Photographer, Brooklyn, NY
Living City, Living Art



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