The American Academy in Rome Announces the 2007-08 Rome Prize Winners

New York (19 April 2007) – Today the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome announced the winners of the 2007-08 Rome Prize Competition. Awardees are provided with a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for a period of 6 months to 2 years.      

The announcement was made by Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR’84,  President of the American Academy in Rome, who stated that the Trustees had awarded the fellowships at the board meeting earlier in the day.  The following individuals will take up residence at the American Academy in Rome in September 2007:

ANCIENT STUDIES

Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
      ROBERT R. CHENAULT
      Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan
  Rome and its Senators in the Fourth Century A.D.

National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
      JACKIE ELLIOTT
      Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales

Frances Barker Tracy/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)
      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

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
      ELEANOR M. RUST
      Department of Classics, University of Southern California
  Ex Angulis Secretisque Librorum:  Reading, Writing, and Using Miscellaneous Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae

Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
      DYLAN SAILOR
      Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
  Prestige, Ambition, and the Writing of History in the Early Principate

Jesse Benedict Carter/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
      RACHEL VAN DUSEN
      Department of Classics, University at Buffalo
  Central Apennines: A History of Cultural Change in the Highlands of Central Italy

ARCHITECTURE

Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize
      FREDERICK FISHER
      Principal-in-Charge,  Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects
  Art Space Collage

Founders Rome Prize
      DANIEL MIHALYO/ANNIE HAN
      Lead Pencil Studio
  SPATIAL INQUIRY: Looking at Nothing in Rome

DESIGN

Rolland Rome Prize
      JOHN CARY
      Executive Director, Public Architecture
  Activist Architecture |  Attivismo architettonico

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
      MOLISSA FENLEY
      Artistic Director, Molissa Fenley and Dancers
  The Pattern of the Surface

HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION

Booth Family Rome Prize
      JANA DAMBROGIO
      Conservator,  Document Conservation Laboratory, National Archives and Records Administration
  A Technical Study of Northeastern Italian Monastic Legal and Accounting Documents and Bindings at the Vatican Secret Archives

National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
      JOHN OCHSENDORF
      Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Preservation of Masonry Vaulting in Rome

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
      ALAN BERGER
      Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
  Landscape Reclamation and the Pontine Marshes

Garden Club of America Rome Prize
      LISA TZIONA SWITKIN
      Senior Associate, Field Operations
  Monument Landscapes:  Constriction and Construction of the City

LITERATURE

John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
      JUNOT DÍAZ
      Writer and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Tokyo Rose: a novel

Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
      SARAH MANGUSO
      Writer and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Writing for Publication,  Performance & Media, Pratt Institute
  The Guardians (a collection of short prose)

MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
      FLORENCE ELIZA GLAZE
      Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director, The Honors Program, Coastal Carolina University
  Gariopontus and the Salernitans:  Medical Texts and Medical Practice in Southern Italy c. 1050-1225

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
      (year one 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

MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
      PAUL ARPAIA
      Assistant Professor, Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Luigi Federzoni,  Standardbearer of italianità from Liberal to Post-Fascist Italy

Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
      CHRISTINA FERANDO
      Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
  Staging Neoclassicism

MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Samuel Barber Rome Prize
      ERIN GEE
      Composer
  Sleep Towards Sound: An Opera in Four Acts

Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize
      YOTAM HABER
      Composer
  Music in the Jewish Community of Rome: Research and Composition of a New Work for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra

RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES

Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
      THOMAS FREDERICK MAYER
      Professor,  Department of History, Augustana College
  Trying Galileo

Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
      DANIEL R. McREYNOLDS
      Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
  Refiguring the Palladian Legacy: Architectural Reform in Eighteenth-Century Venice

Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
      (year two of a two-year fellowship)
      GREGORY WALDROP
      History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley
  Sight Unseen: Priests and Visual Representation in Early Quattrocento Siena

Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
      MARJORIE CURRY WOODS
      Associate Professor, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
  Weeping for Dido: Male Writers and Female Emotions in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom

VISUAL ARTS

Chuck Close Rome Prize
      DANIEL BOZHKOV
      Artist
  Eternity’s Ephemera:  Frescoes of Rome’s Daily Histories

Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
      TIM DAVIS
      Photographer
  (Ill)illuminations

John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
      KATE GILMORE
      Artist and Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Design, State University of New York at Purchase
  Untitled

Jesse Howard, Jr. Rome Prize
      CAVEH ZAHEDI
Filmmaker
Ulysses

The Rome Prize is awarded annually through an open competition that is juried by leading artists and scholars in the fellowship fields.  Forty individuals were invited to make up eight juries to review the applications. 

The juries this year were chaired by Miranda Marvin, RAAR’04 (Ancient Studies), Thom Mayne (Design), Paula M. De Cristofaro, FAAR’06 (Historic Preservation/Conservation), Edmund White (Literature through the Committee for Awards of the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Medieval Studies), Victoria de Grazia, FAAR’78, RAAR’07 (Modern Italian Studies), Steven Stucky, RAAR’06 (Musical composition), Mark Weil, RAAR’86 (Renaissance and Early Modern Studies),  and Laurie Simmons, RAAR’05 (Visual Arts). For a complete list of jurors and their professional affiliations, please click here.

Established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of Congress in 1905, the American Academy in Rome is a center that sustains independent artistic pursuits and humanistic studies. It is situated on the Janiculum, the highest hill within the walls of Rome. Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to up to 30 individuals - emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature,  Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and scholars (working in Ancient,  Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies). The application deadline is November 1st.

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