Research funder · Italy

American Academy in Rome

Research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome

aarome.org

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

Grants

2017–2018 · fellowship · Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

Animation in Medieval Art

Bissera Pentcheva · Professor, Department Of Art History, Stanford University

2017–2018 · fellowship · Frederic A. Juilliard | Walter Damrosch Rome Prize

The Hour of The Star

Suzanne Farrin · Frayda B. Lindemann Professor Of Music, Hunter College And The Graduate Center, City University Of New York

2017–2018 · fellowship · Charles K. Williams II Rome Prize

A Transatlantic Response to Worlds That Shake: Jesuit Contributions to Anti-Seismic Building Design in Early Modern Italy and Peru

Lisa Deleonardis · Austen-stokes Professor, Department Of The History Of Art, John Hopkins University

2016 · fellowship · National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

Freedom, Rights, and Governance in the Ancient Near East

Eva Von M. Dassow · Associate Professor, Department Of Classical And Near Eastern Studies, University Of Minnesota

2016–2017 · fellowship · Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize

A Physical Journalism

Michael Queenland · Artist, Los Angeles

2016–2017 · fellowship · Garden Club of America Rome Prize

From Ancient Italy to Urban Parks Today: A Study of the Role of Plants in Italian Gardens and Their Influence on Urban Park Design

Jason Siebenmorgen · Senior Associate, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Brooklyn

2016–2017 · fellowship · Charles K. Williams II Rome Prize

Rome in the Andes: the Impact of the Classical World on Inca Architectural History

Stella Nair · Associate Professor, Department Of Art History, University Of California, Los Angeles

2016–2017 · fellowship · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

The Outlaw Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean

Hussein Fancy · Associate Professor, Department Of History, University Of Michigan

2016–2017 · fellowship · Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman | National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

The Tombs of Rome: Burial and History in the Center of Power

Dorian Borbonus · Associate Professor, Department Of History, University Of Dayton

2016 · fellowship · Garden Club of America Rome Prize

Drawing Histories of Landscape Architecture

Thaïsa Way · Associate Professor, Department Of Landscape Architecture, University Of Washington

2016–2017 · fellowship · Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

Waste Not Waste: Managing Garbage in the Roman City

Kevin Dicus · Assistant Professor, Department Of Classics, University Of Oregon

2016 · fellowship · Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation

Conserving the City by Understanding Its Built Landscape: The Analysis of Urban Form by Saverio Muratori, 1910–1973

Jeffrey W. Cody · Senior Project Specialist, Field Projects, Getty Conservation Institute

2016–2017 · fellowship · Marian and Andrew Heiskell | Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year two of a two-year fellowship)

Image Made Flesh: The Micromosaic Man of Sorrows at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome

John Lansdowne · Princeton University

2016–2017 · fellowship · Jules Guerin Rome Prize

The Black Body as Infinite Receptor

Enrico Riley · Artist And Associate Professor, Department Of Studio Art, Dartmouth College

2016–2017 · fellowship · Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

Freedom and the Human Being: Libertas in Cicero and Horace

Andrew Horne · Phd Candidate, Department Of Classics, University Of Chicago

2016–2017 · fellowship · Henry W. and Marian T. Mitchell | Miss Edith Bloom Fund Rome Prize

Bernini’s Twist

E. V. Day · Artist, Brooklyn, New York

2016–2017 · fellowship · Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a Gift of the Drue Heinz Trust | American Academy of Arts and Letters

How Much Water Does a Man Need?

Matthew Neill Null · Writer, New Martinsville, West Virginia

2016–2017 · fellowship · Millicent Mercer Johnsen Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

La Voce della Radio: Opera and the Radio in Italy, 1931–1960

Danielle Simon · Phd Candidate, Department Of Music, University Of California, Berkeley

2016–2017 · fellowship · Luciano Berio Rome Prize

Recording Islands, Transcribing Mosaics

Christopher Trapani · Columbia University

2016–2017 · fellowship · Irene Rosenzweig | Lily Auchincloss | Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)

Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas and Cultural Memory in Republican Italy

Sophie Crawford Waters · Phd Candidate, Graduate Group In The Art And Archaeology Of The Mediterranean World, University Of Pennsylvania

2016–2017 · fellowship · Elliott Carter Rome Prize

Rime Sparse, and Todt Durch Detranken (Death by Drowning)

Jonathan Berger · Composer And Professor, Department Of Music, Stanford University

2016 · fellowship · Rolland Rome Prize

Rome, Empire Building, and the City That Never Was

Christopher Marcinkoski · Assistant Professor Of Landscape Architecture And Urban Design, School Of Design, University Of Pennsylvania

2016–2017 · fellowship · Jesse Howard Jr. | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

The Culture of Conversion: A Jewish Jesuit in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Robert John Clines · Assistant Professor, Department Of History, Western Carolina University

2016–2017 · fellowship · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

Storage and Packaging for an Empire: Agricultural Economies of West-Central Italy, ca. 200 BCE–200 CE

Caroline Cheung · Phd Candidate, Graduate Group In Ancient History And Mediterranean Archaeology, University Of California, Berkeley

2016–2017 · fellowship · Paul Mellon | Frank Brown Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

Staging the Cosmopolis: Comedy and Translation in Republican Rome and Early Modern London

Leon P. Grek · Phd Candidate, Department Of Comparative Literature, Princeton University

2016–2017 · fellowship · Phyllis W. G. Gordan | Lily Auchincloss | Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)

The Practice and Production of Architecture during the Mediterranean Commercial Revolution: The Church of S. Corrado in Molfetta (ca. 1185–1303)

Joseph Williams · Phd Candidate, Department Of Art, Art History, And Visual Studies, Duke University

2016–2017 · fellowship · Donald and Maria Cox Post-Doctoral Rome Prize