The American Academy in Rome's 2020–21 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows

The American Academy in Rome today published the latest winners of its annual Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. Twenty-two American and two Italian artists and scholars were recognized for their academic work and research in various fields of architecture, design, the arts, and humanities.

This year's prize winners in the Architecture category are UCLA lecturer Katy Barkan and UC San Diego Associate Professor David Serlin.

Take a look at the complete list below.

ARCHITECTURE 

• Rome Prize in Architecture: Katy Barkan
  Lecturer, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles
  Obelisks: A History of Uncertainty 
• Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon/Frances Barker Tracy Rome Prize: David Serlin
  Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
  Sensory Design and Architectural Empathy in the “Progetto Ophelia”

DESIGN 

• Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize: Steven Parker
  Lecturer, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio; Curator, SoundSpace at the Blanton Museum of Art
  Futurist Opera 
• Mark Hampton/Jesse Howard Jr. Rome Prize: Terese Wadden
  Costume Designer, Brooklyn
  The Clothes of Rome 

HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION 

• Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize: Jean Dommermuth
  Lecturer, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Conservator, ArtCare, New York
  Sixteenth-Century Florentine Canvas Painting 
• Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize: Paulette Marie Singley
  Professor, Department of Architecture, Woodbury University
  Preserving Perishables: Strategies for Conserving the Cultural History of Cuisine in Contemporary Rome

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 

• Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize: Kevin Benham
  Assistant Professor, Jon Emerson/ Wayne Womack Design Professorship, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University
  A Line in the Land: Tracing the Transhumance 
• Garden Club of America Rome Prize: Robert Gerard Pietrusko
  Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
  Adapting the Viticultural Landscape 

ANCIENT STUDIES 

• Arthur Ross/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize: Dillon Gisch
  PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, Stanford University
  Replication and Difference in Images of “Modest Venus,” 200 BCE–600 CE 
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Emeline Hill Richardson Rome Prize: Rebecca Levitan
  PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
  The Pasquino Group: Sculpture, Conversation, and Resistance from Ancient Rome to Renaissance Italy 
• Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize: Maggie L. Popkin Robson
  Junior Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University
  Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome
• Millicent Mercer Johnsen/ Irene Rosenzweig Rome Prize: Christy Q. Schirmer
  PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
  Exploiting Riverine Resources in the Roman Empire

LITERATURE 

• John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, A gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman: Alexandra Kleeman
  Assistant Professor, Department of Writing, The New School
  The Taxon Cycle: A Novel 

MEDIEVAL STUDIES 

• Marian and Andrew Heiskell/ Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize: Danny Smith
  PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Stanford University
  Dreaming in Public in Late Medieval Rome 

MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES 

• Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize: Anna Dumont
  PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
  From Design Reform to Fascist Craft: Women and Italian Textile Production, 1870–1945
• Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize: Matthew H. Ellis
  Professor, Department of History, Sarah Lawrence College
  In the Shadows of Italian Empire: Libya, Egypt, and the Politics of Cross-Border Migration and Exile, 1911–1970 

MUSICAL COMPOSITION 

• Elliott Carter Rome Prize: Katherine Balch
  Composer, New York
  Kalesa Ed Kaluca: Music for double bass (and) 
• Luciano Berio Rome Prize: William Dougherty
  Department of Music, Columbia University
  New Works for Konus Quartett, TILT Brass, Ensemble Resilience, and Ensemble Proton Bern 

RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES 

• National Endowment for the Humanities/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize: Carla Keyvanian
  Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Auburn University
  Humanist History and Architecture in Sistine Rome
• Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: 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
  Ghostly Light: How Criminal Corpses Animated the Italian Enlightenment 
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Donald and Maria Cox Rome Prize: Lindsay Sheedy
  PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
  Un’orrida bellezza: Religious Polychrome Sculpture in the Kingdom of Naples (1503–1714) 

VISUAL ARTS 

• Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize: Jennifer Packer
  Assistant Professor, Department of Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
  Fantasy in the Hold 

TERRA FOUNDATION AFFILIATED FELLOWSHIP IN ROME 

• Gloria J. Bell
  Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
  Eternal Sovereigns: Indigenous Artists, Activists, and Travelers Reframing Rome