American Academy in Rome

The Association of American Publishers has given the 2020 R. R. Hawkins Award to Carmen C. Bambach (1994 Fellow, 2005 Affiliated Fellow) for her four-volume work, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). The book also won the association’s 2020 PROSE Award in Humanities.

Samiya Bashir, a 2020 Rome Prize Fellow in literature, opens up to Reed Magazine about poetry, politics, and writer’s block.

Two Residents, Fikret Yegül (1998) and Diane Favro (2015), won a 2020 PROSE Award in Reference Works for their 2019 book Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity.

The MIT School of Architecture and Planning has appointed Nicholas de Monchaux (2014 Fellow, 2000 Affiliated Fellow) to head the Department of Architecture, beginning July 2020.