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School of Fine Arts | School of Classical Studies SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS Arnold W. Brunner Fellowship in Architecture Peter D. Waldman Peter Waldman, Architect North Garden, Virginia My proposed research in Rome is to retrace by day and to recount by night seven topographic meanders/texts bench marking incrementally the flood plain of the Tiber from the vantage points of the hills of Rome. My research will be both archival and visceral: a book of hours, days and seasons, of stones and surfaces which act as mirrors for the moon. Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Fellowship in Architecture Stephen Harby Stephen Harby, Architect Santa Monica, California While in Rome I will be conducting an analysis and study of a selection of Roman buildings and places using architectural rendering in watercolor with on-site sketching, as well as more protracted and detailed study in the studio. The product will be a series of rendered perspective views, elevations and sections that will document and clarify the composition of walls, the articulation and modulation of scale and the enclosure of space. Mercedes T. Bass Fellowship in Architecture Johannes M. P. Knoops Kohn Pedersen Fox New York, New York "Memory Excavations" is a series of theoretical projects, each based on similar constructs and all sited along Rome's historic city walls. This work examines the possibility of generating architectural form from unique memories inherent to specific sites. Each project will be infused with a contemporary contextual function, creating a rich and layered dialogue between today's programmatic needs and the site's potent "memory." American Academy in Rome Fellowship in Design Arts Wendy Kaplan The Wolfsonian/Florida International University Miami, Florida Romantic Nationalism is the term used to describe the way, at the turn of the century, countries sought to establish or reinforce their identity by idealizing the past. I will be examining the way Italy, as a recently unified country, used folk crafts and vernacular architecture to bind its different regions together and construct a national image suited to the modern age. Rolland Fellowship in Design Arts Michael Rock Associate Professor, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut I will create a series of video pieces in conjunction with the Museum of the Ordinary. The Museum of the Ordinary is a conceptual collection of designed objects housed in designated urban spaces worldwide. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Historic Preservation and Conservation Alice Boccia Paterakis Agora Excavations, American School of Classical Studies Athens, Greece My field is the conservation of archaeological artifacts. This fellowship will allow me the opportunity to visit the conservation specialists and facilities in the various organizations and excavation sites in Italy which deal with archaeological materials. The fellowship will also provide ample time for researching the conservation literature in the library of ICCROM in Rome with the intention of compiling a manual for the conservation treatment of inorganic material Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in Historic Preservation and Conservation Elmo Baca Economic Development Department, State of New Mexico Las Vegas, New Mexico I plan to study the impacts of tourism on historic Italian communities and historic sites. I will research tourism management systems at the national, regional and local levels with a sensitivity to Italian heritage tourism policies and projects which may be relevant to American communities. Garden Club of America Fellowship in Landscape Architecture Laurel McSherry Associate Professor, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona The fate of a memory is as fascinating a question as how that memory is initially secured. By tracing an arc of time along the Sarno River (in Campania), my work will explore the intimate links between landscape change and the evolution of cultural memory. I will focus specifically on how human communities maintain heritage in light of the continued and inevitable rearranging of the material landscape. This investigation will contribute to a book manuscript currently under development. Prince Charitable Trusts Fellowship in Landscape Architecture Stephen Sears Carol R. Johnson Associates Cambridge, Massachusetts I plan to record the region's agrarian landscape by generating imagery that evokes landscape design. Using a variety of media, I hope to compile studies that illustrate the shared principles and expressions of landscape architecture and the vernacular landscape. John Guare Writer's Fund, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman/ American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship in Literature Tom Andrews Associate Professor, Purdue University Lafayette, Indiana I hope to complete my current writing project, which happens to be set in Rome and Milan. I am roughly halfway into a long poem about St. Augustine, centering on the years 383-388 A.D., when he shuttled between Rome and Milan while working as a Professor of Rhetoric. During this time, Augustine contemplated renouncing his secular success for an austere, meditative life even as he enjoyed immensely his domestic arrangement with his (unnamed) concubine and their son, Adeodatus. Frederic A. Juillard/Walter Damrosch Fellowship in Musical Composition Shih-Hui Chen Longy School of Music Cambridge, Massachusetts I will be working on three musical compositions: a chamber ensemble piece featuring solo Pipa (Chinese lute), a musical drama based on a Taiwanese folk tale, and a work for piano and cello duo. In these works, I will continue to explore an integration of Western and Eastern musical languages and compositional techniques. Samuel Barber Fellowship in Musical Composition Carolyn Yarnell San Francisco, California My project embraces Western music composition techniques, combined with computer generated music and live performers. I will create a performance that incorporates electronic and acoustic music with visual art, moving and still images. Harold M. English/Metropolitan Museum of Art-Jacob H. Lazarus Fellowship in Visual Arts Jeannette Louie New York, New York I intend to embark on a study of perspectives with specific concentration on the Renaissance, Futurism and contemporary Rome. My primary focus will be on observing how these diverse perspectives exist within a postmodern time period and affect an individual's subjective development. Joseph H. Hazen Fellowship in Visual Arts David Fludd Massachusetts College of Art Boston, Massachusetts At the American Academy in Rome I plan to use my time to study the paintings of the Renaissance. I am interested in investigating a specific form of geometry that I am exploring in my paintings and its relation to forms especially apparent in the paintings and architecture of the Renaissance. Jules Guerin Fellowship in Visual Arts Joyce Kozloff New York, New York During my year at the American Academy, I plan to continue my cartographic paintings, layering maps from different eras to illuminate current realities. By overlapping systems of information, such as nautical and aeronautical charts, with earlier visions of the earth, I hope to make connections through a process of literal and conceptual collage. Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology William C. Stull Department of Classics University of Chicago I will be researching and writing my dissertation "Character and Authority in Cicero's Dialogues," concentrating on the ways in which these philosophical works interact with the Roman social context of Cicero's time. During my year at the Academy, I will concentrate especially on Roman notions of history and commemoration and on the relationship between social functions and the physical locations (the forum, suburban villas, etc.) in which they take place. The aim is to stress the rhetorical effectiveness and interest of the Dialogues, which both address Roman realities and subtly reshape them. Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology Darius A. Arya Department of Classics University of Texas at Austin I will use my time in Rome to continue my research on the Basilica Paulli (Aemilia) frieze, a technical study of the sculptural process used to produce the panels, as well as an exploration of the narrative of the frieze. This will involve isotopic analysis, drawings, and examination of the attachment system, in order to understand the original architectural setting of the frieze in the basilica. In addition, I will continue my study of the ideology of Fortuna during the first and second centuries AD within Rome, with specific focus on temples of Fortuna and sculptural dedications to her in Rome, Palestrina and Antium. Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Helen M. Woodruff-Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology Ann Marie Yasin Department of Art History University of Chicago In my dissertation I am 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). Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology Susan T. Stevens Associate Professor of Classics Randolph-Macon Woman's College I will begin writing a history of the site of Bir Ftouha, a fifth to seventh century pilgrimage basilica on the outskirts of Carthage where I have been excavating since 1994. I intend to divide my time evenly between working at the Academy with excavation documents and exploring the architecture and decorative programs of comparable basilicas in Rome and beyond with an eye to build a 3-D model. I look forward, in my free time, to becoming acquainted with classical and modern Rome. National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology Tina Najbjerg Independent Scholar Palo Alto, California I will be preparing my dissertation for publication. I will reconstruct the architecture and the sculptural and painted programs of the so-called "Basilica" in Herculaneum, an important public building of the early Roman Empire. Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art Areli Marina Institute of Fine Arts New York University I will conduct a research campaign on 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. Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the History of Art Katarzyna Elzbieta Jerzak Associate Professor of Comparative Literature University of Georgia The project I plan to complete in Rome, whose working title is "Exilic Perspective in Painting and Film," is a comparative study of the work of the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico and the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. My focus will be on the implications of the use of linear perspective in De Chirico's "metaphysical paintings" and in Tarkovky's film "Nostalghia." This fellowship will enable me to use the materials at the Fondazione Isa e Giorgio de Chirico in Rome and in other archives, and to complete my research on the aesthetic and the real space of Italian cities and landscapes in the work of both artists. National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art Vernon Hyde Minor Associate Professor of Fine Arts University of Colorado at Boulder I plan to spend a great deal of time in the Biblioteca Angelica, which houses all of the unpublished and published documentation on the Accademia degli Arcadi, the subject of my research. Besides work in the other important libraries of Rome, such as the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, I will study the eighteenth-century home of the Arcadians, the Bosco Parrasio, which is on the Janiculum Hill. Lily Auchincloss Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies Paul A. Garfinkel Department of Comparative History Brandeis University I will be completing my dissertation research in Rome. I expect to spend most of my time at the Archivio Centrale dello Stato, but I will also consult several other archives and libraries, including the Chamber of Deputies archive, the Biblioteca Nazionale, and an assortment of smaller jurisprudential libraries. The tentative title for my doctoral thesis is "The 'Italian Science': Positivist Criminology and Penal Law in Italy, 1861-1939." Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies Douglas H. M. Carver Department of Medieval History Trinity College, University of Dublin During my time at the Academy I plan to continue my research on the role of papal legates in the Reform Papacy in the years between the accession of Leo IX and the death of Urban II. My principal aim is to utilize the resources and manuscripts available at the Vatican Library and in the various academic libraries, such as the Academy's, to further the prosopographical study I am undertaking. Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies Thomas J. Dandelet Assistant Professor of History Princeton University My time in Rome will be spent gathering documents for a history of the Colonna family, one of Rome's oldest and most powerful families, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I will work in various archives in and around Rome, including the Vatican archive and the Colonna family archive in Subiaco, where many of the papers of the period are held. National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies Carol F. Helstosky Assistant Professor of History University of Denver I will finish the research for my book about the cultural and economic history of food consumption in modern Italy. This book is based on earlier research into liberal and fascist food policies and will combine a variety of historical and anthropological approaches to the "problem" of inadequate diet in modern Italy. 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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