Advisors

Color photograph of a olive skinned woman in a bright red coat talking to a woman whose back is to the camera
Annalisa Metta, a 2017 Italian Fellow, is an AAR Advisor in landscape architecture (photograph by Daniele Molajoli)

Overview

Each year a select group of artists, scholars, writers, and professionals serve the American Academy in Rome as Advisors in eleven disciplines.

2023–24

Ancient Studies

Elizabeth Fentress    
Roman archaeology, landscape archaeology

Silvia Orlandi    
Latin epigraphy

Simonetta Serra    
Roman topography, early Christian and late antique archaeology

Architecture

Cinzia Abbate    
Architecture

Jacopo Costanzo    
Architecture

Luca Galofaro    
Architecture

Antonino Saggio    
Architecture

Carlo Vigevano    
Architecture

Design

Alessandro Dandini de Sylva    
Photo curator and book designer

Ilaria Gianni    
Curator and writer

Lorenzo Gigotti    
Design

Clara Tosi Pamphili    
Fashion curator

Andrea Viliani    
Curator

Historic Preservation and Conservation

Laura Cibrario    
Historic preservation

Alison Heritage    
Conservation

Yvonne Mazurek    
Preservation theory

Landscape Architecture

Fabio Attorre    
Landscape architecture, global biodiversity

Alberta Campitelli    
Italian villas and gardens

Simone Capra    
Landscape architecture

Nathalie Grenon-Sartogo    
Landscape architecture

Annalisa Metta (2017 Italian Fellow)    
Landscape architecture

Literature

Chiara Barzini    
Writer 

Isabella D’Amico    
Founder of literary agency

Maria Ida Gaeta    
Literary curator

Jhumpa Lahiri (2013 Resident)    
Writer

Francesca Marciano    
Writer

Virginia Virilli (2019 Italian Fellow)    
Novelist, screenwriter

Medieval Studies

Carrie Beneš (2009 Fellow)    
Historian in late medieval Italy

Fabrizio Conti    
Medieval studies

Cristiana Filippini    
Medieval art history

Ramie Targoff (2013 Resident)
Medieval history

Lila Yawn (1998 Fellow)    
Medieval art history and history

Modern Italian Studies

Carmen Belmonte (2019 Italian Fellow)   
Italian art history

Lorenzo Benadusi    
Modern Italian history

Dario Biocca   
Modern Italian history

Mauro Canali   
History, twentieth-century Italian and American history

Giovanna Capitelli   
Art history

Maddalena Carli   
Contemporary history

Ester Coen   
Modern art historian

Barbara Drudi   
Art history, postwar Italian and American art

Davide Lacagnina   
Modern Italian art historian

Musical Composition

Francesco Antonioni
Composer and event organizer

Tonino Battista
Composer and conductor

Alvin Curran
Composer

Timothy Martin
Singer and actor

Vittorio Montalti (2014 Italian Fellow)
Composer

Marco Sinopoli
Composer and musician

Giulia Tagliavia
Composer

Stewart Wallace
Composer

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Jeffrey Blanchard (1979 Fellow)
Renaissance and Baroque architecture

Patrizia Cavazzini
Italian early modern and Baroque art and art markets

Ingrid Rowland (1982 Fellow, 2000 Resident)
Early modern and Renaissance history, literature, and art history

Guendalina Serafinelli
Early modern art history and collecting

Visual Arts

Johanne Affricot
Curator

Mistura Allison
Curator

Wendy Artin
Visual artist

Giuliana Benassi
Curator

Ilaria Conti
Curator

Marco Delogu
Photographer, curator

Denise Di Castro
Art gallerist

Theo Eshethu
Artist and filmmaker

Emily Jacir (2015 Fellow)
Visual artist

Damiana Leoni
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome

Ilaria Leoni
Gallerist

Pepi Marchetti Franchi
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome

Costanza Mazzonis di Pralafera
Contemporary art consultant and manager for Arte Fiera - Bologna

Peter Benson Miller
Curator and scholar, Italian modern art

Liana Miuccio
Photographer and filmmaker

Jebila Okongwu
Artist

Lorcan O’Neill
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome

Justin Randolph Thompson
Visual artist

Shara Wasserman
Curator

As of September 26, 2023.