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American Academy in Rome
2006-2007 Rome Prize Winners
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The following list of Rome Prize Winners are currently in residence at the Academy. Click here for a list of the 2007-2008 Rome Prize Winners.
ARTS
ARCHITECTURE
Mercedes T. Bass Rome Prize
PATRICK TIGHE
Principal, Tighe Architecture
TENEBROSO/In between light and dark
“My work in Rome will investigate notions of ‘in between’. By exploring the Zeitgeist of Rome circa 1600, via architecture, music, literature and painting, I will decipher the latent tensions of a society as coded in the art forms of the day. The findings, be they cultural, political, sexual or socio-economic will be compared and contrasted with the current US condition. At the conclusion of my stay, the exploration will manifest in the form of an installation. The exhibit will showcase various representations of two societies at two very different moments in time, each grappling with the ostensible power they posses.”
Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Rome Prize
THOMAS TSANG
Co-Founder, Architecture of Metropolitan Post; Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology
Dichotomy of Urban Nature in Rome
“Rome stands out as being among the European cities that have grappled with reconciling its cultural identity with the elements of a modern society. I want to investigate how the city of Rome has dealt with this cultural tension between the demand of engineered landscape and natural landscape. I wish to look at this issue in three ways: first through the analysis of borders and landmarks, secondly through terra vague in land use, and thirdly, by examining how the processional landscape space that is traditionally viewed as scenery has been reconciled with contemporary landscape issues and practices.”
DESIGN
Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize
ADRIANA CUÉLLAR
Architect, CRO Studio
Trajectories
“Inspired by Rome’s dynamism, where tensions and interruptions dissolve with the procession of spatial and emotional events, my research proposes a methodology of perception through the mapping of different walking trajectories. The aim of this project is to construct a narrative of the patterns of city life revealing Rome as a transformative living artifact.”
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
DENNIS Y. ICHIYAMA
Professor, Department of Visual & Performing Arts, Purdue University
Everything old is new again – research on wood type and printing
“The fellowship will enable me to continue my current research on printing and wood type history and to visit and work in museums in Italy and England. My work will involve documenting their wood type collection and further my experiments with wood type letterpress printing. The competed works will be used in my teaching and provide opportunities for exhibition, lectures, and journal articles.”
HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION
Booth Family Rome Prize
PAMELA HATCHFIELD
Head of Objects Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Artists Using Architecture: Exploring the Relationship between Architecture, Contemporary Art, and Conservation
“[My] project intends to explore conservation issues raised by the way in which contemporary works interact with pre-existing architectural environments. The culmination of this research will be a book designed to assist conservators, curators and other professionals in navigating the physical, philosophical and other challenges encountered in the installation of contemporary art in architectural settings.”
National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
MEISHA HUNTER
Historic Preservationist
Rome’s Waterworks: Investigating the Preservation of its Infrastructure
“My project in Rome is to assess the architecture of Rome’s hydraulic heritage. Process: Analyze historic and current hydraulic maps, generate a complimentary computer database and photographic survey; perform relevant archival, photographic and printed matter research; identify preserved and/or adaptively used historic fabric, and concealed or forgotten components of the city’s water infrastructure.”
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship
WILLETT MOSS
Principal, Conger Moss Guillard Landscape Architecture
The Aleatoric Landscape
“I want to explore the relationship between the corporeal experience and the spatial-sculptural conditions of temporal and unplanned urban sites. As a corollary and qualification, these sites must sponsor voluntary and spontaneous use by individuals or by a community. I propose to study how a visceral response is provoked by resultant or ruinous landscapes formed by material accrual, intervention and entropy over time, and how these aleatoric conditions can be applied to the designed landscape to elicit a heightened corporeal response.”
Kate L. Brewster Rome Prize
JOSE D. PARRAL, JR.
Visiting Lecturer, Landscape Architecture Section, Knowleton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
Artcity
“Artcity will explore the traditional and contemporary art culture in Rome and its influence in the Urban Landscape through a series of catalogs that specify perimeters and opportunities. This information will potentially influence the design of urban prototypes that reveal alternatives in city making.”
Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
CHARLES WALDHEIM
Principal, Urban Agency; Director, Master of Landscape Architecture Program, University of Toronto
Shrinkage: Landscape, Agrarian Urbanism, and the Roman Disabitato
“This proposal for a Rome Prize Fellowship extends my research on the role of landscapes as an element of urban order in the context of a shrinking urban population. I propose to examine the role of landscape in a particular moment of depopulation in the urban history of Rome: the ancient Roman disabitato. My experience at the American Academy in Rome will contribute to my ongoing work on agrarian models for contemporary urbanism.”
LITERATURE
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
TOM BISSELL
Writer and Journalist
A book about the Twelve Apostles
While in Rome, Tom will be working on a book about the Twelve Apostles.
John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
DAVE KING
Writer
Trastevere: a bagatelle
Dave will use his time in Rome to continue working on his forthcoming publication, Trastevere: a bagatelle, to published by Little, Brown & Co.
MUSICAL COMPOSITION
Samuel Barber Rome Prize
ANDREW NORMAN
Composer
Melting Architecture
“My music is regularly inspired by the art and architecture that surrounds me. I plan on writing a chamber work that responds to the designs and proportional theories of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. I also plan to start an extended work for orchestra, chorus, and soloists for the Oakland East Bay Symphony.”
Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize
KEN UENO
Assistant Professor, Music Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Multimedia theater work for Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky
“During the period of the fellowship, I plan on composing a multimedia chamber theater work for the violist, Kim Kashkashian and her ensemble. The ensemble will consist of viola (Ms. Kashkashian), percussion (Robyn Schulkowsky), a dancer (who will also sing), a narrator, and a live-performance visual artist. My piece will be a companion piece to Luciano Berio’s Naturale. As a companion piece, what is intended is that my new work will be designed to fill one-half of a concert program for Ms. Kashkashian and her ensemble, the other half featuring the Berio piece. I will also compose a chamber orchestra piece for the Netherlands Youth Symphony.”
VISUAL ARTS
John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
PATRICIA CRONIN
Artist
Musings on Harriet Hosmer’s Roman Life, Work, and Career
“I would like to produce a new body of graphic and sculptural works that explore the life, work and career of the American ex-patriate artist Harriet Hosmer (1840-1908) who worked in Rome for 30 years. Widely acknowledged as the first professional woman sculptor, she was critically acclaimed and financially successful during her lifetime, but is largely unknown today. Much of my paintings, sculptures and installations for the past decade have updated Victorian forms with my contemporary sensibility addressing issues of visibility, gender and history. These themes will continue to inform the sculpture and drawings I will produce inspired by Homer’s now lost masterpiece, The Queen of Naples.”
Gilmore D. Clarke/Michael Rapuano Rome Prize
JOHN KELLY
Performance Artist; Lecturer in Dramatic Arts, Harvard University
Inhabiting the Skin of Caravaggio
“I propose to conduct research for a performance work inspired by the life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and to create artifacts and media elements (paintings, theatrical props, video, site–specific sound elements) which would be incorporated into an eventual live performance.”
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
JOSHUA MOSLEY
Artist; Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
A focus on animation inspired by the depiction of animals in ancient forms of art
“[I will] produce an animation while considering the narrative use of animal characters in ancient forms of art. I am interested in how animals have historically been pictorialized and characterized because I imagine that our relationship to them is a gauge of our comfort with our existence. I wonder if we develop relationships with animals to sooth our own uncertainty by bonding to creature who seem less troubled by big questions. In past works, I have collaborated with musicians to produce original sound tracks. Over the past year I have started to compose music, and would like to form connections with musicians in Rome or at the Academy who would be able to discuss the process of proceeding in this direction.”
Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize
RICHARD REZAC
Sculptor; Adjunct Full Professor of Sculpture, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Shared Visual Language: Sculpture -- Architecture
“While in Rome I will concentrate on my studio practice in sculpture and make a deliberate examination of Roman architecture, especially its Baroque period. Borromini and select architects immediately influenced by him- including works in Turin and Naples will be studied. The principles, vocabulary of form and complexity of these buildings are most significant and relevant to my current approach.”
Humanities
ANCIENT STUDIES
Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Irene Rosenzweig Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year 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
“From the moment of its construction in the 270’s AD, the Aurelian Wall became the single most important topographical feature in metropolitan Rome, as it remained for six centuries thereafter. I am attempting first to explore the wall’s immediate impact on the way Romans moved about, communicated, traded, and administered the city, before turning to an analysis of the processes through which the wall came subsequently to redefine the image and the ideal of the eternal city at home and throughout the known world.”
Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
MICHAEL J. JOHNSON
Department of Classics, Rutgers University
The Pontifical Law: Religion and Religious Power among the Romans
“While at the Academy I shall examine the place of the pontifical college and its individual members within the Roman constitution and Roman state religion, define the duties of both in these fields, and investigate the doctrine and theology behindpontifical actions in order to understand better what the pontiffs did and how and why they did it. The resulting document will be the first comprehensive collection and analysis in nearly 170 years of all ancient evidence -literary, iconographical, and epigraphical- pertaining to pontifical activity during the Republic.”
Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
SANDRA K. LUCORE
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Greek Baths of the Hellenistic Period
“My dissertation is a study of Greek Hellenistic bathing complexes located for the most part in Sicily and Southern Italy. The focus is on the development of these western Greek baths as a distinct group from a distinct region of the Greek world. Because of the exceptional nature and relative abundance of the evidence from the baths at Morgantina, there is a particular focus on that site and how it can help to elucidate comparable structures which are less well preserved.”
Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Frank Brown/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
LISA MARIE MIGNONE
Department of Classics, Columbia University
FARE L’AVENTINO: A Social and Urban History of the Aventine in the Roman Republic
“My dissertation reexamines the Aventine hill in Rome: its topography, politics, infrastructure and social development in context of the city as a whole. The last work of this kind was published a full century ago. I would like to spend the 2006-2007 academic year completing my dissertation at the American Academy.”
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
KEVIN UHALDE
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio University
The Power of Forgiveness in Christian Communities (ca. 200-650)
“My project will be a study of penance unlike any other on the subject, a book that provides a new history of the way sin and forgiveness worked in Christian communities during Late Antiquity. Penance provided the motivation and the means for leaders to explain how conflict, failure, and sin could persist in Christian communities no less than in the world at large. In the process, penance changed the way people thought about justice in both mundane and abstract terms. The book project I plan to complete by summer 2007 is part of a larger, ongoing study of Episcopal authority in Early Medieval communities, particularly the communities of Rome and its vicinity.”
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
CHRISTOPHER MACEVITT
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College
Life after the Fall: the Memory of Jerusalem and the Culture of the Christian East
“The book-length project will study the impact of the loss of the Holy Land on the diverse Christian communities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 14th century. as well as how Western European leaders used the memory of Jerusalem to craft new policies towards the Holy Land in the same period.”
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
MARINA RUSTOW
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University
Language and Power in the Medieval Mediterranean: Sicilian Jews and the Polyglot Phenomenon
“This project investigates multilingualism among the Jews of Sicily, who were an important link in transmitting Arabic learning to Europe. Rather than viewing Arabic-speaking Jews as cultural intermediaries, I investigate linguistic traditions preserved in Jewish archival documents in Sicily and manuscripts at the Vatican to understand how the Jews themselves understood translation and polyglot practices before and during the rise of Humanist scholarship.”
MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES
National Endowment for the Humanities/C. Douglas Dillon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
FLORA GHEZZO
Assistant Professor, Department of Italian, Columbia University
Women Writing Fascism: Power, Subjectivity and Desire in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943
“In my book-length study, I propose to examine women’s writings completed under Fascism, with the aim of uncovering the contradictions and the ‘molecular revolutions’ that they stage: subtle instances of dissent from and refusal of official Fascist models of femininity. Can ‘Power’ ever be effectively countered? By what strategies? How does I it shape and inform literary texts? The names of these Italian writers have been forgotten and their texts still languish in oblivion in the libraries and archives of Rome.”
Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
STEPHANIE PILAT
Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
Re-Imagining Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era
“Through an examination of the Ina-Casa program for workers’ housing, this study seeks to understand how Italy was redefined after 1945. It argues that the spiritual rebuilding of the nation was tied to the physical reconstruction. These neighborhoods illustrate which parts of Italian history were used in the re-making of the nation and how class and gender roles were built into the projects at the city, community, and dwelling level.”
Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
HILARY PORISS
Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Northeastern University
Arias, Authorship, and the Prima Donna
“My book project is the first full-length study of how nineteenth-century productions of Italian operas were shaped by the use of aria insertions. Exploring these pieces as a coherent historical phenomenon, this book asks how they were woven into the authorial fabric of individual operas, and how their performance helped consolidate the image of the prima donnas who, in singing them, made the arias -and the operas- their own. As a post-doctoral fellow, my year would be spent conducting research and completing the manuscript for this book.”
Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
ARMAN RAPHAEL SCHWARTZ
Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley
Modernity Sings: Rethinking Realism in Italian Opera
“By placing modernist writings on the death of opera in dialogue with earlier Italian works more conventionally described as ‘realist’, I propose that composers from Verdi to Puccini were more engaged with some of the principal dilemmas of modernity than has previously been assumed. The nature of their engagement complicates widespread assumptions that opera and modernity were simply incompatible forces. Arguing that Italian opera found, in the contemporary world, a subject uniquely (and disturbingly) well suited to its powers. I also aim to place debates about operatic “politics” in a new light.”
RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
MARGARET MESERVE
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
A Renaissance of News: The Italian Market for Printed Political Information, 1470-1527
“A study of news printing in Italy from its origins in the 1470’s to the sack of Rome in 1527, this book-length project examines Renaissance printed news texts in both Italian and Latin, in verse and in prose, which report or comment more obliquely on current events. The book will explore the literary strategies Renaissance authors employed to interpret the news and it will also trace connections among authors, editors, printers and the political authorities under whom they worked. The projects ultimate aim is to redefine our current understanding of printed political discourse in early modern Europe by locating its origins earlier (and further south) than previously imagined.”
Lily Auchincloss Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
GERARD PASSANNANTE
Department of English, Princeton University
The Inventions of Lucretius
“In a project entitled ‘The Inventions of Lucretius’. I will link the early material and textual fortunes of Lucretius’ Latin poem De Rerum Natura with key developments in the histories of literature, philosophy and science. To complete this project in a meaningful way requires a close study of the Italian manuscripts and early printed editions of the poems in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A fellowship at the American Academy in Rome would allow me unparalleled access to these rare materials and the time to examine how seemingly minor textual digressions and the response of individual readers have shaped the intellectual history of the Renaissance. Where De Rerum Natura was both an ancient scientific poem and a product and reflection humanistic practices, I will argue, it occupied a unique and central position between the history of learned readers and the development of philosophy and scientific thinking.”
Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one of a two-year fellowship)
GREGORY WALDROP
History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley
Sight Unseen: Priests and Visual Representation in Early Quattrocento Siena
“Ubiquitous, indispensable, sometimes notorious – priests are ever before the eyes of the faithful in Quattrocento, as central figures of both quotidian spectacle and the Church’s sacramental system. Visual representations of their priestly mediation have been largely overlooked by art historians. My dissertation examines priests as depicted subjects and calculated objects of art production and focuses on Sassetta’s Arte della Lana altarpiece (1425) as the site of a remarkable, and hitherto unremarked, display of sacerdotal visual rhetoric.”
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