WINNERS OF THE 2000-2001 ROME PRIZE
School of Fine Arts | School of Classical Studies
SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Fellowship in Architecture
Michael L. Goorevich
Davidson Smith Certo Architects, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
In Rome I will be working on my proposal, which looks at the points where time most influences our experience of architecture. I will be studying this through extensive drawings and paintings in the studio, the creation of 3-D works and on my excursions through Rome.
Mercedes T. Bass Fellowship in Architecture
Richard Taransky
Richard Taransky, Architect
Haddonfield, NJ
The title of my proposal is "An act against the Father. And Forgiveness." My study will be accomplished through drawing structures of passage and barrier at the Arch of Titus. My desire is to document underlying animistic programs and their application to landscape boundaries in post suburban communities. Studio time will then be directed towards the planning of a linear city based upon the passage from an act.
American Academy in Rome Fellowship in Design Arts
Lisa Krohn
Instructor, Art Center College of Design
Los Angeles, CA
In Rome I will study Roman baths and fountains for their design, use of mythology, engineering and their reception in the culture. I will put together a photographic and video record of the baths and fountains in their current state, describe their reception in their heyday, compare this water culture with that of other parts of the world, ultimately developing an illustrated report and conceptual design proposal for a modern day version of the remarkable Roman water culture.
Rolland Fellowship in Design Arts
Michael Palladino
Richard Meier and Partners, Architects
Los Angeles, CA
The Roman topography offers an endless supply of important structures and outdoor spaces that are the byproduct of multiple layers of architectural rule systems that order the space, each layer reflecting the specific demands of its time. Through experiencing, drawing and coding the operating sets of rules at selected Roman sites, I will explore layering of rule sets as a strategy for evolving and advancing my own modern architectural vocabulary.
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in Historic Preservation and Conservation
Elizabeth Walmsley
Painting Conservator, National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
In Rome I will be organizing and interpreting a digital archive of images of Italian Renaissance paintings created using a photo documentation technique called "infrared reflectography." As a painting conservator interested in the materials and methods used by these painters, I plan to put the images into a broader context by comparing them with paintings in Italian collections. In Rome I will be organizing and interpreting a digital archive of images of Italian Renaissance paintings created using a photo documentation technique called "infrared reflectography." As a painting conservator interested in the materials and methods used by these painters, I plan to put the images into a broader context by comparing them with paintings in Italian collections.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Historic Preservation and Conservation
Deirdre Windsor
Director/Chief Conservator, Textile Conservation Center at the American Textile History Museum
Dover, MA
The project I plan to complete at the American Academy is a comparative study about the evolution and ethics of conservation and restoration of archaeological Coptic textiles. While in Rome, I will have the opportunity to research exceptional examples of these textiles in the Vatican collections and the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia to gain a comprehensive knowledge of the physical and historical consequences of past treatment intervention. This fellowship will also allow me to identify Late Roman and Byzantine artifacts and architectural sites, which influenced the context of manufacture, imagery and the stylization of Coptic textile design.
Prince Charitable Trusts Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
Mark Klopfer
Hargreaves Associates/Design Critic, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, MA
While at the American Academy in Rome I will examine how the tectonics of site construction contribute to the meaning of a project. I will be investigating these issues in civic, religious, urban and rural villa projects.
Garden Club of America Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
David Meyer
Peter Walker and Partners/Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
In the manner of the medieval architects, I'll start my year at the Academy by studying and recording the essential proportions of the Italian masterpieces. Building on this interest in physicality, I want to explore progression in the landscape, progression meaning anything from the methodical phases evident at a construction site, to crops in rotation, to landscapes that are repurposed. The evolution of the walls and moat area surrounding Lucca, Italy are of particular interest to me.
John Guare Writer's Fund, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman/American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship in Literature
Sigrid Nunez
New York, New York
While at the Academy I will be working on the final draft of my fourth book, The Scenery of Farewell, and I will begin writing a new book, also a novel.
Samuel Barber Fellowship in Musical Composition
Michael Hersch
Forest Hills, NY
While in Rome I will be working on several new projects. One will be to complete a large-scale orchestral work due for performance the following year. Another project will be to begin work on a piano concerto with myself in mind for its soloist. And finally I'll work on a new chamber work, most likely a string sextet or a piano trio.
Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Fellowship in Musical Composition
Pierre Jalbert
Assistant Professor of Music, Rice University
Stafford, TX
In Rome, I plan to compose two orchestral works. The first is a work for chamber orchestra, commissioned by the Albany Symphony. The second is a work for large orchestra, commissioned by the California Symphony.
American Academy in Rome Fellowship in Visual Arts
Dara Friedman
Miami Beach, FL/New York, NY
As a film- and video-maker, I should like to study the Commedia Dell'Arte when in Rome and produce a series of short films in the spirit of this theater. The lazzis, turns or tricks that the characters of the Commedia Dell'Arte use when they are at a loss for words, are techniques I feel sympathetic to as an artist and a filmmaker. They are techniques that transcend language and deal with the examination of reality by turning that reality on its head. The lazzis comprise acrobatic feats and mimicry; comic violence and sadistic behavior; illogical sequences which I feel are at the heart of creative thinking; sexual and scatological references to remind us that even the most refined thinker is made of flesh and blood; they deal with social class rebellion; and always transformation.
Harold M. English/Metropolitan Museum of Art-Jacob H. Lazarus Fellowship in Visual Arts
Lyle Ashton Harris
Assistant Professor of Art and Art Professions, New York University
New York, NY
Roman Subjects 2000AD is a photography portrait study that will document a diverse cross section of Roman citizens at the beginning of the 21st century. Drawing on archives of classical, modern and contemporary representations of Romans since antiquity, I intend to study the ancient language of portraiture in order to provide a historical framework for Roman Subjects 2000 AD while I am at the Academy.
Joseph H. Hazen Fellowship in Visual Arts
Gary Hill
Seattle, WA
I will begin working concurrently on a screenplay and a mixed-media performance work. That said, my working methodology is such that I am quite certain these projects will become significantly different as the specific energies of time and place bring new "instances" of possible reflexivity into my field of inquiry.
John Armstrong Chaloner Fellowship in Visual Arts
Donald Lipski
Sag Harbor, NY
Objects that seem ordinary to Italians are often to me wonderful: physical tokens of their sense of beauty, history and the material. As such I will create work that relies a good deal on local artisans and industry.
SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Classical Studies and
Archaeology
Leslie Dossey
Assistant Professor of History
Loyola University of Chicago
During 2000-2001, I will be completing a book manuscript with the
working title "Christians and Romans: Assimilation, aspiration,
and conflict in the late antique countryside." This project uses
both archaeological and textual evidence to explore how Romanization
led to social and political tensions in late Roman North Africa,
particularly in the countryside. I will spend part of my time incorporating
new archaeological survey data from the American Academy in Rome's
archives as well as examining patristic sermon collections at the
Vatican Library. The rest of my stay will be spent preparing my
manuscript for publication with the help of the Academy's library.
Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
in Classical Studies and Archaeology (year one of a two-year fellowship)
John Curtis Franklin
Department of Greek and Latin
University College, London
At the Academy I shall complete my comparative study of the Mesopotamian
cuneiform musical tablets and the Greek theorists and musicographers.
In this study I attempt to show that the lyric or "melic" revolution
of the Greek Archaic period has its roots in the musical aspect
of the orientalizing period. This is epitomized in the tradition
that Terpander "invented" the seven-stringed lyre.
Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology
Karen E. Klaiber
Department of Classics
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
I will use my time in Rome to work on my dissertation, entitled
"Nuptiae Romanae," in which I examine the place of the wedding ceremony
in Roman law, religion and literature. Since the Roman wedding involved
women in prominent and unusually public roles, my study will investigate
ritual elements of the wedding with a view to understanding the
significance of this rite of passage in a woman's life. I am especially
eager to examine the evidence afforded by depictions of married
couples on funerary monuments.
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical
Studies and Archaeology
Carlos F. Noreña
Graduate Group in Ancient History
University of Pennsylvania
My dissertation, which I intend to complete at the Academy, is a
study of long-term rhythms in the representation and communication
of imperial ideals and values. For this study I have assembled a
large sample of imperial coins, from which I have been able to determine
the relative frequency with which specific types were minted. During
my year in Rome I plan to examine other forms of imperial expression,
especially monumental relief sculpture, in order to assess the degree
to which the public image of the emperor cohered across different
media.
Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
in Classical Studies and Archaeology (year two of a two-year fellowship)
Ann Marie Yasin
Department of Art History
University of Chicago
During my second year at the Academy, I will continue working on
my dissertation by studying the production of early Christian holy
sites at saints' tombs in the fourth to sixth centuries. My work
focuses on the processes of visiting, monumentalizing and inscribing
saints' tombs in Rome, Ephesos and North Africa. I examine how different
communities constructed these tombs as sites of collective commemoration
both of the individual saints and of the community's deceased buried
nearby (ad sanctus).
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship in
Classical Studies and Archaeology
Andrew Zissos
Assistant Professor of Classics
University of Texas at Austin
I plan to complete a monograph on Ovid (co-authored with Ingo Gildenhand)
and write a second monograph on Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica while
at the Academy.
Frances Barker Tracy/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
in the History of Art (year one of a two-year fellowship)
Jennifer Bethke
Department of Art History
University of California at Berkeley
While at the Academy I will be researching and writing my dissertation
"From Futurism to Neoclassicism: Temporality in Italian Modernism."
I plan to make use of the Archivio Centrale dello Stato and other
important archives and libraries in Rome in order to study the Futurist
and Novecento movements. Through examining these two art movements,
I will explore the Italian modernists' attitudes toward history,
tradition and temporality.
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the History
of Art (year two of a two-year fellowship)
Areli Marina
Institute of Fine Arts
New York University
During my second year at the Academy, I will continue to research
the urban development of Parma in the communal period (approximately
1150 to 1350), which is the subject of my doctoral dissertation.
I will use the extensive resources of Roman libraries (especially
the library of the American Academy, the Bibliotheca Hertziana and
the Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma) to conduct research that
I am unable to carry out in the United States because the specialized
publications are not available in this country.
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship in
the History of Art
Charles M. Rosenberg
Professor of Art, Art History, and Design
University of Notre Dame
At the Academy I will be completing a monograph on coinage in late
medieval and renaissance Ferrara. This paradigmatic study will focus
on the ways in which numismatic imagery was manipulated for political
purposes using the national collection of coins in Rome.
Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the History of Art
Stefanie Walker
Assistant Professor of Studies in the Decorative Arts
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
The subject of my study is the life and significance of Johann Paul
Schor (1615-1674), also known as "Tedesco." Schor, influenced by
Bernini and Cortona, became the preeminent designer of decorative
arts in Baroque Rome, providing drawings for fantastic beds, fireworks,
coaches, silver, textiles and even sugar sculptures. The originality
of his designs, his versatility and the position he held among fellow
artists, patrons and craftsmen in Rome will be the major areas of
my inquiry while I am in Rome.
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship in
Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies
Joanna H. Drell
Assistant Professor of History
Richmond University
In Rome I will be investigating the impact of the eleventh- and
twelfth-century Norman settlement and conquest of Southern Italy
on the construction of social and political identity. I hope to
unravel the region's various ethnic threads (Norman, Greek, Arab
and Lombard) to illustrate the roles that local power and cultural
identity played in the formation of the Norman kingdom. I will examine
both published and unpublished materials at the Vatican and other
libraries in preparation of a book manuscript, The Construction
of Mediterranean Identity: The Norman Kingdom of Southern Italy
and Sicily.
Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Post-Classical
Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies
Michael R. Ebner
Department of History
Columbia University
While in Rome I will complete research on my dissertation, "Confino
di polizia: Administrative Exile, Deviance and Everyday Life in
Fascist Italy, 1926-1943," which discusses the Italian fascist regime's
system of confino di polizia, a repressive apparatus responsible
for the deportation of approximately 15,000 anti-fascists and other
"socially dangerous" individuals (confinati politici) to island
penal colonies and small villages in southern Italy from 1926-1943.
I will primarily be examining the rich, detailed "personal files"
of the confinati at the Central State Archive.
Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern
Italian Studies
Wendy Heller
Assistant Professor of Music
Princeton University
At the Academy I will continue my research on the representation
of the ancient world--particularly the Roman Empire--in Italian
opera of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Using
opera manuscripts and librettos, contemporary non-operatic writings
and other relevant documents housed at the various Roman libraries,
my study explores the intersections between operatic convention
and history, and the mechanisms through which music alters, subverts
or strengthens the ideological implications of the historical narrative.
Ultimately, my project will illuminate not only the various ways
in which Rome's past might have served early modern sensibilities,
but also how the aural and visual splendor of opera functioned as
an historiographical medium.
Lily Auchincloss Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern
Italian Studies
H. Darrel Rutkin
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University
During my year at the Academy, I will pursue research toward my
dissertation on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus
astrologiam divinatricem by reading primary sources in the history
of astrology, mainly incunabula, at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
After the Academy: For information on the
Society of Fellows, the alumni organization for Fellows and Residents
of the American Academy in Rome, see the SOF web site at www.sof-aarome.org
for more details.
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