- The Rome Prize
- Summer Programs
- Affiliated Fellowships
- Residents
- Visiting Artists and Scholars
- Rome Sustainable Food Project
The Rome Prize
Call for Entries 2010
Each year, the coveted Rome Prize is awarded to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Click here to learn more about the Rome Prize.
Summer Programs
Throughout most of its history the American Academy in Rome has sponsored summer programs. Consistent with the Academy's mission, these programs are intended to provide American scholars, teachers and academically advanced students the opportunity to experience and draw upon the resources of Rome. Below are links to the Academy's current summer programs.Participants in Academy summer programs are invited to join the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome. For more information on the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome and CSAAR membership, please visit their website at www.csaarome.org.
Classical Summer School
June 21 - July 30, 2010
This six-week program is designed to provide qualified graduate students, mature undergraduates, and middle school, high school, and two-year college teachers with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary sources.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar
"The 'Falls of Rome': The Transformations of Rome in late Antiquity"
June 28 - July 30, 2010
This five week program is designed for teachers of American undergraduate students. Qualified independent scholars and those employed by museums, libraries, historical societies and other organizations may be eligible. Participants work with leading scholars on a given topic in the humanities with the goal of furthering their teaching and scholarship.
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The Howard Comfort, FAAR'29, Summer Program in Roman Pottery
June 14 - July 11, 2010
The Summer Program in Roman Pottery Studies is a four-week program designed to present the basics of Roman pottery studies and thus to fill a gap in archaeological training. Pottery is the most common discovery on archaeological sites in the Mediterranean on land and in shallow waters and also in the deep sea, which is opening up to archaeological research. It usually offers the most important evidence for dating socio-economic matters, such as trade relations and consumption patterns of food.
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Summer Program in Archaeology
June 7 - July 26, 2010
**APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 15, 2010**
The Summer Program in Archaeology was conceived in 1991 to give graduate students in all areas of Classical studies an overview of current developments in archaeological method and theory, focusing on ancient Italy and the ancient Mediterranean world. The seven-week course teaches selected participants the objectives and methods of archaeology through instruction and hands-on experience in active archaeological research. The program is divided into two parts: three weeks in residence at the American Academy for lectures and the opportunity to study the monuments and sources offered by Rome itself, and four weeks on-site at an archaeological excavation.
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Scuola di Etruscologia e Archeologia dell'Italia Antica
The Academy has granted affiliation to the Scuola di Etruscologia e Archeologia dell'Italia Antica at Orvieto, which is intended to foster the development of young scholars about to embark on their careers. During two weeks in the summer the participants attend lectures and seminars on a specific theme chosen each year by the Advisory Committee. In the following months they elaborate papers under the direction of the teaching staff. Those that are considered worthy are published in the Scuola's dedicated series. The students and faculty in the first cycles have been largely Italian, but the Scuola's desire in seeking AAR affiliation is to broaden its international outreach. Although some knowledge of Italian is required, work may be presented in English.
Director
Prof. Giuseppe M. Della Fina
(Director of the Museo "Claudio Faina" at Orvieto)
Information
info@uniorvieto.it
fainaorv@tin.it
www.museofaina.it
Affiliated Fellowships
In addition to Rome Prize fellows, the Academy is host to recipients of other fellowships and awards offered by educational and cultural organizations around the world. These Affiliated Fellows reside at the Academy for periods from four‐weeks to eleven‐months and add to the diversity of the Academy artistic and scholarly community.
ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
Thanks to the generous assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers a small number of new fellowships for recently tenured scholars engaged in long-term projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields of specialization include but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, geography, history, languages and literature, law, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology.
Proposals in the social sciences, concentrating predominantly on humanistic approaches (e.g. economic history, law and literature, political philosophy), are eligible. Also eligible are proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies, as well as proposals focused on any geographic region or any cultural or linguistic group.
Burhardt Fellowships support a nine month residency at any one of nine national research centers including the American Academy in Rome. The ACLS will award a small number of fellowships each year. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $65,000. For further information, please visit the ACLS website.
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Burnham Prize of the Chicago Architectural Club
The Chicago Archtiectural Club grants three-month residencies at the Academy for architects practicing in and around the Chicago metropolitan area. For additional information and application details, contact:
Alan Armbrust
c/o I-Space
230 West Superior
Chicago, IL 60611.
Samuel H. Kress Traveling Fellowship (Jerusalem and Amman, Athens, Nicosia, or Rome)
This fellowship, a doctoral dissertation research fellowship for student specializing in architecture, art history, archaeology, and classical studies, includes an award of $18,500 for a five month residency at the Albright in Jerusalem, with the remainder of the award to be spent on five months either at the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, the Cyprus American Archaeological Institute in Nocosia, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, or six weeks at the American Academy in Rome.
Applicants must demonstrate the necessity of residing at the Albright and at one of the other four institutions to complete their research, and must be U.S. citizens or students studying at an American university. Contact www.aiar.org for more information.
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Berthe M. Marti Fellowship in Latin
The Marti Fellowship, established by Berthe M. Marti, FAAR'45, provides a stipend for nine months of study in Rome, plus research and travel funding, to advanced graduate students in Latin at Bryn Mawr College or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, or those who have received doctorate degrees from those institutions within three years of applying. The first six weeks of the program are spent at the American Academy, the remainder of the year in housing of the fellows choosing. The award is open to candidates in one or more of the following areas of study: early, classical, or medieval Latin; Latin palaeography; the transmission of Latin text; and/or the establishment of texts of Latin authors. Potential candidates should consult with the Chairperson of their graduate department.
Mellon East-Central European Research Fellowships
The American Academy in Rome is pleased to offer awards to East Central European Scholars in cooperation with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Established in 1993, this program now serves Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, and Slovak scholars who, at the time of application, hold a Ph.D or have equivalent experience and wish to undertake a specific research project in Rome.
A juried, open competition will select as many as three East-Central European scholars for three-month residencies at the American Academy in Rome. Awards are offered in Ancient Studies through the 6th century; Medieval Studies from the 6th century through the 14th; Renaissance and Early Modern Studies from the 14th through the 18th centuries; and Modern Studies from the 18th century to the present.
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Program Guidelines
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Cynthia Hazen Polsky/Metropolitan Visiting Curator Award
This award, a multi-year initiative, brings a curator, mutually recommended by the Directors of the Metropolitan Museum and the Academy, to Rome to be part of the Academy community for a stay of six to eight weeks. Applications are not accepted.
The Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellowship
This fellowship, awarded by the Provost of Columbia University, was established by the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome and Friends of Columbia University in honor of Michael Sovern's chairmanship of the Academy board from 1993 to 2005. It enables a member of the Columbia community to spend six weeks in residence at the Academy.
Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship
To encourage study of the Greco-Roman world, each year the American Academy in Rome, in conjunction with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, award the Oscar Bronner Traveling Fellowship.
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Raiziss/de Palchi Traveling Fellowship of the American Academy of Poets
This fellowship is awarded bi-annually to a U.S. citizen for the translation of modern Italian poetry into English. Recipients reside at the American Academy in Rome for six weeks. For additional information please contact:
The American Academy of Poets
584 Broadway Suite 1208
New York, NY 10012
Multi-Country Research Program of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
This program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned a Ph.D in the fields of humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences, and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct their research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating overseas research center. CAORC member centers include the American Academy in Rome where fellows are required to honor a two week minimum stay. For more information please contact:
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Regional Research Program
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
NHB - CE-123, MRC 178
Washington, DC 20013-7012
fellowships@caorc.org
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & The American Academy in Rome
Each year, the American Academy in Rome and the Scuola Normale Supeeriore of Pisa each exchange one scholar to promote cooperation in the field of academic research. Eligible scholars are normally doctoral candidates in the humanities. Pre-doctoral fellows at the Academy may apply during the year in which they hold the Rome Prize or during any of the three following years.
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Getty Research Exchange Fellowship for the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East
The American Academy in Rome (AAR) and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) are pleased to announce the third cycle of the Getty Research Exchange Fellowship Program. The fellowship program is open to scholars who are Italian citizens and who have already obtained a Ph.D. or have professional experience in the study or preservation of cultural heritage and who wish to undertake a specific research project at an overseas research centers in another country.
Program Announcement (PDF)
Program Guidelines (PDF)
Program Application (PDF)
Residents
Invitational Residents Programs
The Director of the American Academy in Rome invites distinguished artists and scholars from around the world to reside at the Academy for periods ranging from two to four months. Invitations are extended to artists and scholars in the same disciplines as those of the Rome Prize.
During their stay, residents serve as senior advisors to Rome Prize recipients and to other members of the Academy community, and are expected to offer a minimum of one Academy-wide event in their area of expertise: a concert, an exhibition or studio visit, a lecture, a reading, or an instructional walk in Rome.
Those wishing to be considered for an invitational residency in the Arts and Humanities may apply in writing to the Academy's Director in Rome.
Visiting Artists and Scholars
The American Academy in Rome offers artists and scholars of any nationality an opportunity to rent living and working space at the Academy for a period from two weeks to four months.
Applications
Artists and scholars in Architecture Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Modern Italian Studies may apply.
Applications are accepted year round and reviewed three times each year in June, October, and February.
The deadline for applications for housing requests for mid-September through December 31st is May 31st. For housing from January through April, the deadline is September 30th. And for the period from May through July, the deadline for applications is January 31st.
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Accommodation
Various types of accommodation are available at the Academy.
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Rome Sustainable Food Project
RSFP Mission Statement
The Rome Sustainable Food Project provides the community of the American Academy in Rome with a collaborative dining program that nourishes scholarship and conviviality. Guided by the indomitable spirit of the Roman table, it is our aim to construct a replicable model for sustainable dining in an institution.
In 2006, Alice Waters envisioned the Rome Sustainable Food Project as an eco-gastronomic endeavor that would be a logical extension of the Academy’s values. Since its official launch in February 2007, the Rome Sustainable Food Project has transformed the community of the American Academy in Rome with a collaborative dining program that nourishes and supports both work and conviviality. Guided by the indomitable spirit of the Roman table, the Rome Sustainable Food Project aims to construct a replicable model for sustainable dining in an institution.
“The dining table at the Academy isn’t just delicious, it’s an idea that brings us back to our senses and can be a model for educational institutions everywhere.” – Alice Waters
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Spring 2009
Events at the American Academy in Rome from April through June, 2008
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