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PRESS RELEASE:
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ANNOUNCES
2005-2006 ROME PRIZE WINNERS
New York (14 April 2004) - The Trustees of the American Academy in Rome announced today the winners of the 109th annual Rome Prize Competition. Rome Prize winners 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 Board of Trustees had voted on the following individuals this morning:The winners of the 2006-2006 Rome Prize are:
Ancient Studies
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
KIMBERLY BOWES
Assistant Professor, Fordham University
Possessing the Holy: Private Churches in the City of Rome in Late Antiquity Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Irene Rosenzweig Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize 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 National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
CARLOS R. GALVAO-SOBRINHO
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Burial Rites, Funerary Sociability, and Sense of Self among Slaves and Freed Persons at Rome in the Early Principate Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
JACOB A. LATHAM
Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Making Rome Christian: Christian Ritual Processions in the Transformation of Classical Rome Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
SANDRA K. LUCORE
Associate Professor, University of Tokyo; Department of Near Eastern and Classical 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 Fellowship
DAVID PETRAIN
Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Epic Manipulations: The Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman Context
Architecture
KIMBERLY BOWES
Assistant Professor, Fordham University
Possessing the Holy: Private Churches in the City of Rome in Late Antiquity Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Irene Rosenzweig Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize 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 National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
CARLOS R. GALVAO-SOBRINHO
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Burial Rites, Funerary Sociability, and Sense of Self among Slaves and Freed Persons at Rome in the Early Principate Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
JACOB A. LATHAM
Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Making Rome Christian: Christian Ritual Processions in the Transformation of Classical Rome Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
SANDRA K. LUCORE
Associate Professor, University of Tokyo; Department of Near Eastern and Classical 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 Fellowship
DAVID PETRAIN
Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Epic Manipulations: The Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman Context
Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize Fellowship
ALEX SCHWEDER
Principal, Alex Schweder Projects; Howard House, Seattle; Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
Plastitectura Founders Rome Prize Fellowship
ELISA SILVA
Architect, New York, NY
Studies in Drawing on the Operations of Distortion in Giovanni Battista Falda's Vedute
Design
ALEX SCHWEDER
Principal, Alex Schweder Projects; Howard House, Seattle; Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
Plastitectura Founders Rome Prize Fellowship
ELISA SILVA
Architect, New York, NY
Studies in Drawing on the Operations of Distortion in Giovanni Battista Falda's Vedute
Rolland Rome Prize Fellowship
PAMELA HOVLAND
Designer, Pamela Hovland Design; Critic, Yale University School of Art
Words-in-Freedom: The Sequel Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize Fellowship
J. MEEJIN YOON
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MY Studio, Boston/New York
Urban Measures
Historic Preservation and Conservation
PAMELA HOVLAND
Designer, Pamela Hovland Design; Critic, Yale University School of Art
Words-in-Freedom: The Sequel Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize Fellowship
J. MEEJIN YOON
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MY Studio, Boston/New York
Urban Measures
Booth Family Rome Prize Fellowship
PAULA M. DE CRISTOFARO
Paintings Conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Preserving the Legacy of Post-World War II Italian Artists National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize Fellowship
ROBERT E. SAARNIO
Director, Historic Houses / Curator, University Collections, The Johns Hopkins University
Comparative Study: U.S. and Italian Heritage-Site Management Practices: Stewardship, Interpretation, and Urban Context Responses
Landscape Architecture
PAULA M. DE CRISTOFARO
Paintings Conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Preserving the Legacy of Post-World War II Italian Artists National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize Fellowship
ROBERT E. SAARNIO
Director, Historic Houses / Curator, University Collections, The Johns Hopkins University
Comparative Study: U.S. and Italian Heritage-Site Management Practices: Stewardship, Interpretation, and Urban Context Responses
Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship
RICHARD BARNES
Photographer/Artist, San Francisco, CA
Constructed Landscapes Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship
ANITA DE LA ROSA BERRIZBEITIA
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
The Ecology of Formal Systems in the Italian Landscape and Garden
Literature
RICHARD BARNES
Photographer/Artist, San Francisco, CA
Constructed Landscapes Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship
ANITA DE LA ROSA BERRIZBEITIA
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
The Ecology of Formal Systems in the Italian Landscape and Garden
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
CRAIG ARNOLD
Assistant Professor of Poetry, University of Wyoming
I Will Survive John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
AARON HAMBURGER
Author, New York, NY
Working on an untitled third book
Medieval Studies
CRAIG ARNOLD
Assistant Professor of Poetry, University of Wyoming
I Will Survive John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
AARON HAMBURGER
Author, New York, NY
Working on an untitled third book
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
F. THOMAS LUONGO
Associate Professor of History, Tulane University
Book Culture and Ideals of Sanctity and Authorship in Late-Medieval Italy
Modern Italian Studies
F. THOMAS LUONGO
Associate Professor of History, Tulane University
Book Culture and Ideals of Sanctity and Authorship in Late-Medieval Italy
Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
PATRICK BARRON
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
From Pastureland to War Zone to National Park: The Three-Stage Evolution of the Majella Massif in Abruzzo, Italy Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
CHRIS G. BENNETT
Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan
Boetti and Pascali: Two Case Studies (1965-1970), Revisiting Arte Povera after the fall of the Berlin Wall Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
PATRICIA GABORIK
Associate Lecturer, Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Between the Avant-Garde & Fascist Modernism: Massimo Bontempelli's Theatre, 1916-1949
Musical Composition
PATRICK BARRON
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
From Pastureland to War Zone to National Park: The Three-Stage Evolution of the Majella Massif in Abruzzo, Italy Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
CHRIS G. BENNETT
Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan
Boetti and Pascali: Two Case Studies (1965-1970), Revisiting Arte Povera after the fall of the Berlin Wall Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
PATRICIA GABORIK
Associate Lecturer, Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Between the Avant-Garde & Fascist Modernism: Massimo Bontempelli's Theatre, 1916-1949
Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellowship
SUSAN BOTTI
Assistant Professor of Composition, University of Michigan
Vocal Chamber Music Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellowship
CHARLES NORMAN MASON
Professor of Composition, Birmingham-Southern College; Executive Director, Living Music Foundation
Composing Four Works
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
SUSAN BOTTI
Assistant Professor of Composition, University of Michigan
Vocal Chamber Music Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellowship
CHARLES NORMAN MASON
Professor of Composition, Birmingham-Southern College; Executive Director, Living Music Foundation
Composing Four Works
Phyllis G. Gordan Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
JANA ELIZABETH CONDIE-PUGH
Department of History, Northwestern University
Taming Pazzia: Madness in Late Renaissance Italy Marian and Andrew Heiskell/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
JANNA ISRAEL
Department of Architecture, History, Theory, and Criticism Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reforming Commemoration: Patronage of the Franciscan Observants in the Renaissance Lily Auchincloss Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
PETER A. MAZUR
Department of History, Northwestern University
The Roman Inquisition in Naples: Trials of Judaizers 1569-1572 National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
EMILY WILSON
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
The Death Of Socrates
Visual Arts
JANA ELIZABETH CONDIE-PUGH
Department of History, Northwestern University
Taming Pazzia: Madness in Late Renaissance Italy Marian and Andrew Heiskell/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
JANNA ISRAEL
Department of Architecture, History, Theory, and Criticism Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reforming Commemoration: Patronage of the Franciscan Observants in the Renaissance Lily Auchincloss Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
PETER A. MAZUR
Department of History, Northwestern University
The Roman Inquisition in Naples: Trials of Judaizers 1569-1572 National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship
EMILY WILSON
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
The Death Of Socrates
Chuck Close Rome Prize Fellowship
BOYCE CUMMINGS
Painter, New York, NY
Untitled Jules Guerin Rome Prize Fellowship
YUN-FEI JI
Artist, Brooklyn, NY
Great News Comes from the Collective Farm John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Fellowship
WARD SHELLEY
Artist, Brooklyn, NY
Untitled Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship
CARRIE M. WEEMS
Visual Artist, Syracuse, NY
Untitled
BOYCE CUMMINGS
Painter, New York, NY
Untitled Jules Guerin Rome Prize Fellowship
YUN-FEI JI
Artist, Brooklyn, NY
Great News Comes from the Collective Farm John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Fellowship
WARD SHELLEY
Artist, Brooklyn, NY
Untitled Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship
CARRIE M. WEEMS
Visual Artist, Syracuse, NY
Untitled
(For a detailed list of winners, please see the attached list.)
The Rome Prize is awarded annually through an open competition that is juried by leading artists and scholars in the different fields. Over thirty individuals were convened into eight juries to review applications. Selected jurors this year included James Stewart Polshek of Polshek Partnership Architects; visual artist Jenny Holzer, RAAR'04; composer Olly W. Wilson; David Potter, Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan; and Charles Burroughs, Professor of Art History and Comparative Literature at Binghamton State University. (See also the complete list of jurors and their professional affiliations)
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