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
2021 · fellowship · Rome Prize in Architecture
Obelisks: A History of Uncertainty
Katy Barkan · Lecturer, Department Of Architecture And Urban Design, University Of California, Los Angeles
2021 · fellowship · Millicent Mercer Johnsen | Irene Rosenzweig Rome Prize
Exploiting Riverine Resources in the Roman Empire
Christy Q. Schirmer · Phd Candidate, Department Of Classics, University Of Texas At Austin
2021 · fellowship · Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize
Preserving Perishables: Strategies for Conserving the Cultural History of Cuisine in Contemporary Rome
Paulette Marie Singley · Professor, Department Of Architecture, Woodbury University
2021 · fellowship · Marian and Andrew Heiskell | Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize
Dreaming in Public in Late Medieval Rome
Danny Smith · Phd Candidate, Department Of Art History, Stanford University
2021–2022 · fellowship · National Endowment for the Humanities | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
Epic Events
Sasha-Mae Eccleston · John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor, Department Of Classics, Brown University
2021–2022 · fellowship · John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize, a Gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Saturday Night At Lung Fung’s
Jessica Hagedorn · Poet, Novelist, Playwright, And Multimedia Artist, New York
2021 · fellowship · Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Ghostly Light: How Criminal Corpses Animated the Italian Enlightenment
Rebecca Messbarger · Professor Of Italian, Affiliate Professor Of History, Art History, Performing Arts, And Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies, Department Of Romance Languages And Literatures, Washington University In St. Louis
2021–2022 · fellowship · Andrew Heiskell | Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize
Window Reception: Brazilian Neoclassical Poetry and Lusophone Classics Across the Atlantic
Adriana Maria Vazquez · Assistant Professor, Department Of Classics, University Of California, Los Angeles
2021–2022 · fellowship · Emeline Hill Richardson | Arthur Ross Rome Prize
En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan Elegy in Latin Epitaphs, Maximianus, and Louise Labé
Grace Funsten · Phd Candidate, Department Of Classics, University Of Washington
2021–2022 · fellowship · National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize
Ariadne’s Echo: Voice, Memory, and the Performance of Reception
Eugenio Refini · Associate Professor, Department Of Italian Studies, New York University
2021 · fellowship · National Endowment for the Humanities | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Humanist History and Architecture in Sistine Rome
Carla Keyvanian · Professor, School Of Architecture, Auburn University
2021–2022 · fellowship · Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Helen M. Woodruff | Archaeological Institute of America Rome Prize
Towards an Economic History of Women’s Work: The Archaeology of Weaving in Sicily from Prehistory to the Republic
Kevin Ennis · Phd Candidate, Department Of Classics, Stanford University
2021 · fellowship · Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize
Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome
Maggie L. Popkin · Robson Junior Professor, Associate Professor, Department Of Art History And Art, Case Western Reserve University
2021 · fellowship · Arnold W. Brunner | Katherine Edwards Gordon | Frances Barker Tracy Rome Prize
Sensory Design and Architectural Empathy in the “Progetto Ophelia”
David Serlin · Associate Professor, Department Of Communication, University Of California, San Diego
2021 · fellowship · Mark Hampton | Jesse Howard Jr. Rome Prize
The Clothes of Rome
Terese Wadden · Costume Designer, Brooklyn
2021 · fellowship · Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Donald and Maria Cox Rome Prize
“Un’orrida bellezza: Religious Polychrome Sculpture in the Kingdom of Naples (1503–1714)”
Lindsay Sheedy · Phd Candidate, Department Of Art History And Archaeology, Washington University In St. Louis
2021 · fellowship · Prince Charitable Trusts | Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize
A Line in the Land: Tracing the Transhumance
Kevin Benham · Assistant Professor, Jon Emerson/wayne Womack Design Professorship, Robert Reich School Of Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University
2021–2022 · fellowship · Jules Guerin | Harold M. English Rome Prize
In Search of Black Atlantis
William Villalongo · Associate Professor, School Of Art, Cooper Union
2021 · fellowship · Luciano Berio Rome Prize
New Works for Konus Quartett, TILT Brass, Ensemble Resilience, and Ensemble Proton Bern
William Dougherty · Columbia University
2021 · fellowship · Arthur Ross | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
Replication and Difference in Images of “Modest Venus,” 200 BCE–600 CE
Dillon Gisch · Phd Candidate, Department Of Classics, Stanford University
2021 · fellowship · Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Emeline Hill Richardson Rome Prize
The Pasquino Group: Sculpture, Conversation, and Resistance from Ancient Rome to Renaissance Italy
Rebecca Levitan · Phd Candidate, Department Of The History Of Art, University Of California, Berkeley
2021–2022 · fellowship · Garden Club of America Rome Prize
Promiscuous Cultures: Agroecology and the Orto Urbano
Phoebe Lickwar · Associate Professor, School Of Architecture, University Of Texas At Austin
2021 · fellowship · Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize
Sixteenth-Century Florentine Canvas Painting
Jean Dommermuth · Lecturer, Conservation Center, Institute Of Fine Arts, New York University
2021 · fellowship · Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design
Futurist Opera
Steve Parker · Lecturer, College Of Liberal And Fine Arts, University Of Texas At San Antonio
2021 · fellowship · Garden Club of America Rome Prize
Adapting the Viticultural Landscape
Robert Gerard Pietrusko · Associate Professor Of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School Of Design, Harvard University
2021–2022 · fellowship · Marian and Andrew Heiskell | Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize
The Mercantile Origins of Early Modern Antiquarian Scholarship
Lillian Datchev · Phd Candidate, Department Of History, Princeton University
2020 · fellowship · National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize
Ugolino of Orvieto and the Encyclopedic Study of Music in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Evan A. Maccarthy · Assistant Professor Of Musicology, School Of Music, West Virginia University
2020 · fellowship · Rolland Rome Prize
The Dreamworlds of the Utopian Future of the Past
Marsha Ginsberg · Performance Designer, New York
2020 · fellowship · Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design
Valor in Vandalism: A Revolutionary Triptych
Roberto Lugo · Artist, Philadelphia
2020 · fellowship · Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
Building into Painting
Sarah Crowner · Artist, Brooklyn
2020 · fellowship · Rome Prize in Visual Arts
Rome’s Future Ruins in Reverse
David Brooks · Artist, Brooklyn
2019–2020 · fellowship · Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize
Ellipse
John Jesurun · Playwright, Director, And Media Artist, New York
2019–2020 · fellowship · Marian and Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize
Trade and Religious Boundaries in the Medieval Maghreb: Genoese Merchants, their Products, and Islamic Law
Joel Pattison · Phd Candidate, Department Of History, University Of California, Berkeley
2019 · fellowship · Founders Rome Prize
The Problem with the Corner Problem
Erin Besler · Assistant Professor, School Of Architecture, Princeton University
2019 · fellowship · Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design
The Trials
Dylan Fracareta · Design Director, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2019–2020 · fellowship · Samuel Barber Rome Prize
Caracalla: Inner Monologue of an Emperor, a Melodrama
Courtney Bryan · Assistant Professor, Newcomb Department Of Music, Tulane University
2019–2020 · fellowship · Emeline Hill Richardson | Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize
Beyond the Periyar: A History of Consumption in Indo-Mediterranean Trade
Jeremy A. Simmons · Phd Candidate, Classical Studies Graduate Program, Columbia University
2019–2020 · fellowship · Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize
Quarry Provenance and Archaeological Dating of the Roman-Area Tuffs in Antiquity (QUADRATA)
Daniel P. Diffendale · Research Fellow, Department Of Ancient Mediterranean Studies, University Of Missouri
2019–2020 · fellowship · Philip Guston Rome Prize
Public Symbols and Singular Identities
Garrett Bradley · Artist, New Orleans
2019–2020 · fellowship · Paul Mellon | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
Musica Transalpina: English Musicians in the Italian Peninsula, ca. 1580–1660
Alana Mailes · Phd Candidate, Department Of Music, Harvard University