Press Release The American Academy in Rome announces the appointment of INGRID D. ROWLAND as Andrew W. Mellon Professor NEW YORK, June 20, 2001-INGRID ROWLAND writes and lectures on Classical Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Age of the Baroque for general as well as specialist readers. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome (1998). She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture (1999), an edition of the correspondence of Agostino Chigi from a Vatican Library manuscript (2000), and a new study entitled The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome (2000). Currently an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, where she received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Ingrid Rowland had taught previously at UCLA and Columbia University, as well as in the Rome programs of St. Mary's College, the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, and the University of California, Irvine. After completing a BA in Classics at Pomona College, she earned her MA and PhD degrees in Greek Literature and Classical Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. A Fellow of both the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the American Academy in Rome, she is spending this year as a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Over the past twenty-five years, Ingrid Rowland has developed contacts of long standing with Italian scholars, other foreign academies in Rome, and the Vatican Library. Her numerous associations with the American Academy in Rome have included Rome Prize winner, Visiting Scholar, Resident, guest lecturer, Classical Summer School participant and occasional lecturer in both the Classical Summer School and the Summer Program in Archaeology. Regarding her new appointment as Mellon Professor, Professor Rowland stated: "I see the Academy as having real potential to affect the way that learning and the arts will contribute to contemporary society precisely because of its inherently ambiguous position between art and scholarship, the United States and Italy, past and future." Ingrid Rowland was chosen from a field of outstanding candidates. The Search Committee chaired by Professor Lester K. Little, Director of the American Academy in Rome, included Academy Trustees Professor Anthony Grafton and Professor Michael C.J. Putnam, FAAR'64, RAAR'70. In announcing the Committee's decision Professor Little noted: "Ingrid Rowland combines a most solid grounding in western humanistic learning with a most wide-ranging inquisitiveness. Besides her obvious qualification as an expert on the multiple layers of Rome's cultural life, she is just right for the American Academy right now because her way of thinking does not conform neatly to the disciplinary confines of any American university department." The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading American overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities. Each year, through a national competition, the Academy offers Rome Prize fellowships to some 30 Americans in architecture, landscape architecture, design, visual arts, musical composition, literature, archaeology and classical studies, history of art and post-classical humanistic and modern Italian studies. These Fellows are joined in Rome by a select group of Residents invited by the Academy, and other distinguished artists and scholars, forming a residential community of approximately 75 individuals. The Academy also awards each year two Fulbright fellowships in the arts and humanities to Italian citizens and, in recent years, three fellowships funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for scholars from East Central Europe. In addition, artists and scholars who have won other prizes and fellowships reside at the Academy and participate in its programs. These awards include: ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars; Oscar Broneer Fellowship in Classical Studies; Burnham Prize of the Chicago Architectural Club; John Dinkeloo Traveling Fellowship of the Van Alen Institute; Metropolitan Museum of Art Visiting Curator Award; San Francisco Art Institute Visiting Artist Award; Raiziss/de Palchi Traveling Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets; and Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship for a Russian writer. The American Academy in Rome is situated on the Janiculum Hill, the highest point within the walls of Rome. Its campus includes 12 buildings on 11 acres, providing the community with residential and working accommodations, a 125,000-volume research library, a Photographic Archive (in part the renowned Fototeca Unione founded by Ernest Nash), exhibition galleries, and spaces for concerts, lectures, conferences, meetings and celebrations. Founded in 1894, the Academy was chartered as a private institution by an Act of Congress in 1905. In 1994, in honor of the Academy's Centennial, the President of the United States signed a joint Resolution of Congress in recognition of the Academy's contributions to America's intellectual and cultural life. The Academy today remains a private institution supported by gifts from individuals, foundations, corporations and universities in addition to grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the United States Department of Education. Ingrid D. Rowland succeeds Dr. Archer Nevins Martin as Mellon Professor at the American Academy in Rome. Her appointment begins 1 September 2001. For additional information, please contact: Adele Chatfield-Taylor - President of the American Academy in Rome 7 East 60 Street New York, NY 10022-1001 Telephone: 212-751-7200   Fax: 212- 751-7220 e-mail: a.chatfield-taylor@aarome.org. 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