THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ANNOUNCES THE 2006-07 ROME PRIZE WINNERS

New York (20 April 2006) – Today the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome announced the winners of the 2006-07 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 2006:

ANCIENT STUDIES

Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Irene Rosenzweig Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
HENDRIK WILLIAM DEY
Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan
The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855

Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
MICHAEL J. JOHNSON
Department of Classics, Rutgers University
The Pontifical Law: Religion and Religious Power among the Romans    

Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
SANDRA K. LUCORE
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Greek Baths of the Hellenistic Period

Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Frank Brown/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
LISA MARIE MIGNONE
Department of Classics, Columbia University
FARE L’AVENTINO: A Social and Urban History of the Aventine in the RomanRepublic

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
KEVIN UHALDE
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio University
The Power of Forgiveness in Christian Communities (ca. 200-650)

ARCHITECTURE

Mercedes T. Bass Rome Prize
PATRICK TIGHE
Principal, Tighe Architecture
TENEBROSO/In between light and dark    

Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Rome Prize
THOMAS TSANG
Co-Founder, Architecture of Metropolitan Post; Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology
Dichotomy of Urban Nature in Rome

DESIGN

Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize
ADRIANA CUÉLLAR
Architect, CRO Studio
Trajectories

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
DENNIS Y. ICHIYAMA
Professor, Department of Visual & Performing Arts, Purdue University
Everything old is new again – research on wood type and printing

HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION

Booth Family Rome Prize
PAMELA HATCHFIELD
Head of Objects Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Artists Using Architecture: Exploring the Relationship between Architecture, Contemporary Art, and Conservation

National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
MEISHA HUNTER
Historic Preservationist
Rome’s Waterworks: Investigating the Preservation of its Infrastructure

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Garden Club of America Rome Prize
WILLETT MOSS
Principal, Conger Moss Guillard Landscape Architecture
The Aleatoric Landscape

Kate L. Brewster Rome Prize
JOSE D. PARRAL, JR.
Visiting Lecturer, Landscape Architecture Section, Knowleton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
Artcity

Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
CHARLES WALDHEIM
Principal, Urban Agency; Director, Master of Landscape Architecture Program, University of Toronto
Shrinkage: Landscape, Agrarian Urbanism, and the Roman Disabitato

LITERATURE

Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
TOM BISSELL
Writer and Journalist
A book about the Twelve Apostles

John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
DAVE KING
Writer
Trastevere: a bagatelle

MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
CHRISTOPHER MACEVITT
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College
Life after the Fall: the Memory of Jerusalem and the Culture of the Christian East

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
MARINA RUSTOW
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University
Language and Power in the Medieval Mediterranean: Sicilian Jews and the Polyglot Phenomenon

MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

National Endowment for the Humanities/C. Douglas Dillon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
FLORA GHEZZO
Assistant Professor, Department of Italian, Columbia University
Women Writing Fascism: Power, Subjectivity and Desire in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943

Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
STEPHANIE PILAT
Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
Re-Imagining Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era

Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
HILARY PORISS
Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Northeastern University
Arias, Authorship, and the Prima Donna

Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
ARMAN RAPHAEL SCHWARTZ
Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley
Modernity Sings: Rethinking Realism in Italian Opera

MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Samuel Barber Rome Prize
ANDREW NORMAN
Composer
Melting Architecture

Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize
KEN UENO
Assistant Professor, Music Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Multimedia theater work for Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky

RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
MARGARET MESERVE
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
A Renaissance of News: The Italian Market for Printed Political Information, 1470-1527

Lily Auchincloss Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
GERARD PASSANNANTE
Department of English, Princeton University
The Inventions of Lucretius

Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one 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

VISUAL ARTS

John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
PATRICIA CRONIN
Artist
Musings on Harriet Hosmer’s Roman Life, Work, and Career

Gilmore D. Clarke/Michael Rapuano Rome Prize
JOHN KELLY
Performance Artist; Lecturer in Dramatic Arts, Harvard University
Inhabiting the Skin of Caravaggio

Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
JOSHUA MOSLEY
Artist; Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
A focus on animation inspired by the depiction of animals in ancient forms of art

Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize
RICHARD REZAC
Sculptor; Adjunct Full Professor of Sculpture, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Shared Visual Language: Sculpture -- Architecture

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 C. Brian Rose (Ancient Studies), Thom Mayne (Design); T. K. McClintock (Historic Preservation/Conservation), Romulus Linney (Literature through the Committee for Awards of the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Susan Boynton (Medieval Studies), Christine Poggi (Modern Italian Studies), Steven Stucky (Musical composition), Eileen Reeves (Renaissance and Early Modern Studies), and Robert Storr (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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR’84, President
American Academy in Rome
7 East 60 Street
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 212-751-7200 ext. 42
Fax. 212-751-7220
E-mail:  a.chatfield-taylor@aarome.org

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