Research funder · Italy

American Academy in Rome

Research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome

Grants since 2016: 313
Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published): —
Funded works, last 5 years: 50
Funded works, all time: 281

Grants

2026 · fellowship · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize

Lovesickness in the Forgotten Centuries

Eva Del Soldato · Associate Professor, Department Of Francophone, Italian, And Germanic Studies, University Of Pennsylvania

2026 · fellowship · John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize, a Gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman

Holy Fool: A Novel

Maya Binyam · Assistant Professor, Department Of Literature, Claremont Mckenna College

2026 · fellowship · Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize

Etchings and Accretions: The Geomicrobial Transfiguration of Rome

Heather Scott Peterson · Professor, Department Of Architecture, Woodbury University

2026 · fellowship · Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize

Preserving Archaeological Remains in Situ (collaborating with Claudia Chemello)

Paul Mardikian · Principal And Cofounder, Terra Mare Conservation, Charleston, South Carolina

2026 · fellowship · Rome Prize in Environmental Arts and Humanities

Piscis Romana (collaborating with Katharine Ogle)

Adam Summers · Friday Harbor Labs, Department Of Biology And The School Of Aquatic And Fishery Sciences, University Of Washington

2026 · fellowship · Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize

Preserving Archaeological Remains in Situ (collaborating with Paul Mardikian)

Claudia Chemello · Principal And Cofounder, Terra Mare Conservation, Charleston, South Carolina

2026 · fellowship · Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano | Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize

Timescapes of Lake Bracciano

Sean Burkholder · Associate Professor, Department Of Landscape Architecture, Stuart Weitzman School Of Design, University Of Pennsylvania (burkholder)

2026 · fellowship · Rome Prize in Environmental Arts and Humanities

Piscis Romana (collaborating with Adam Summers)

Katharine Ogle · Lecturer, Department Of English, University Of Southern California

2026 · fellowship · Philip Guston Rome Prize

Spazzino

Jefferson Pinder · Professor, Department Of Sculpture, School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago

2026 · fellowship · Andrew Heiskell | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize

Songs of Subjection: Slavery in Vergil's Eclogues

Katherine Dennis · Assistant Professor, Department Of Classical And Near Eastern Studies, University Of Wisconsin - Madison

2025 · fellowship · Garden Club of America | Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize

Landscapes after the Fire

Megumi Aihara · Principals, Spiegel Aihara Workshop, San Francisco

2025–2026 · fellowship · Donald and Maria Cox | Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize

Ghost Justice: Crime, Community, and the Roman Cult of the Dead (1st Cent. BCE–3rd Cent. CE)

Darcy Tuttle · Phd Candidate, Ancient History And Mediterranean Archaeology Graduate Group, University Of California, Berkeley

2025–2026 · fellowship · Paul Mellon Rome Prize

The Republic of Translators: Latin, Greek, Arabic, and a New Age of Science, Philosophy, and Theology in the Twelfth Century

John Mulhall · Assistant Professor, Department Of History, Purdue University

2025–2026 · fellowship · Jules Guerin | John Armstrong Chaloner Rome Prize

Martyrs, Vessels, and Perpetual Becoming: An Emergence in Rome

T.J. Dedeaux-Norris · Associate Professor And Area Head, Department Of Painting And Drawing, School Of Art, Art History, And Design, University Of Iowa

2025 · fellowship · Arnold W. Brunner | Frances Barker Tracy | Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize

Material Resistance to Symbolic Form

Michelle Jaja Chang · Associate Professor Of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School Of Design

2025 · fellowship · Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize

The Roman Forum – Learning Grounds for the Renaissance – What Did They Truly Learn?

Krupali Krusche · Associate Professor, School Of Architecture, University Of Notre Dame

2025–2026 · fellowship · Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize

Yup’ik Masks in the “Anima Mundi” of the Vatican Museums (collaborating with Sean Mooney)

Chuna Mcintyre · Founder And Director, Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Singers And Dancers

2025–2026 · fellowship · Anthony M. Clark | Jesse Howard Jr. Rome Prize

Old Rome’s Floods and New Rome’s Earthquakes

Nastasya Kosygina · Phd Candidate, Program In Visual Studies, University Of California, Irvine

2025–2026 · fellowship · Rome Prize in Environmental Arts and Humanities

Yup’ik Masks in the “Anima Mundi” of the Vatican Museums (collaborating with Chuna McIntyre)

Sean Mooney · Managing Director And Chief Curator, Rock Foundation, New York

2025–2026 · fellowship · Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize

Ekphrasis, the Senses, and Geographic Imaginaries: India Mediated by Early Modern Italian Merchants in the Medici Courts

Margo H. Weitzman · Phd Candidate, Department Of Art History, Rutgers University

2025–2026 · fellowship · Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize

Sonic Impressions

Akima Brackeen · Assistant Professor, School Of Architecture, University Of Illinois, Urbana-champaign

2025 · fellowship · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize

Towards a Documentary History of Medieval Africa

Craig Perry · Assistant Professor, Department Of Middle Eastern And South Asian Studies, The Tam Institute For Jewish Studies, And The Graduate Program In Islamic Civilizations Studies, Emory University

2025–2026 · fellowship · Harold M. English Rome Prize

Music Swims Back to Me

Jennifer Bornstein · Professor, Department Of Art, University Of California, Irvine

2025–2026 · fellowship · Garden Club of America | Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize

Urban Tapestry: Exploring Soft Density in Rome’s Public Spaces

Tameka Baba · Professional Practice Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture Section, Knowlton School, Ohio State University

2025–2026 · fellowship · Arthur Ross Rome Prize

What Does an Aethiops Look Like? An Investigation into the Creation, Display, and Function of the Aethiops in Ancient Roman Art

Paula Gaither · Phd Candidate, Department Of Classics, Stanford University

2025–2026 · fellowship · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize