Ten juries, representing a broad cross-section of excellence in the various disciplines are appointed annually to judge the candidate pool. The juries convene from January through March, and finalists are selected for in-person or virtual interviews. The membership of juries changes each year. The winners are approved by the Academy’s Board of Trustees and announced in April.

The jurors’ primary criterion is excellence. They will consider the quality of an applicant’s submission and select candidates who are not only outstanding in their respective fields, but also at a point in their careers where the Rome Prize is likely to be crucial to their future growth and development.

2025 Jury

Liana Brent, 2019 Fellow
Assistant Professor, Classical and Medieval Studies, Bates College

James Ker
Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Lindsey A. Mazurek
Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Felipe Rojas (Chair)
Associate Professor of Archaeology, Brown University

Emma Scioli, 2005 Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Kansas

2024 Jury

Mario Erasmo 
Professor and Department Head, Department of Classics, University of Georgia

Caitlin Gillespie 
Assistant Professor and Helaine and Alvin Allen Chair in Literature, Department of Classical Studies, Brandeis University

Maggie Popkin, 2021 Fellow 
Robson Junior Professor and Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University

Rabun Taylor
Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin

Hérica N. Valladares, 2009 Fellow, 2023 Resident (Chair) 
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2023 Jury

Penelope Davies
Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin

Jackie Elliott, 2008 Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder

Dominic Machado
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, College of the Holy Cross

Victoria Pagán (Chair)
Professor, Department of Classics, University of Florida

Felipe Rojas
Associate Professor, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University

2025 Jury

Deborah Berke, FAIA 
Founding Principal, TenBerke Architects, New York; Edward P. Bass Dean, School of Architecture, and J. M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture, Yale University

Dorothée Imbert, FASLA (Chair) 
Professor and Hubert C. Schmidt ’38 Chair in Landscape Architecture, Knowlton School, Ohio State University

Carlos Jiménez 
Professor, School of Architecture, Rice University; Principal, Carlos Jiménez Studio, Houston

Beka Sturges 
Principal, Reed Hilderbrand, New Haven; Senior Critic, School of Architecture, Yale University

Gregory Wessner 
Executive Director, National Academy of Design, New York

2025 Jury

Nicholas de Monchaux, 2014 Fellow (Chair) 
Weber-Shaugness Professor and Head of Architecture, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Affiliate Faculty, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jiminie Ha, 2012 Fellow 
Founder and Creative Director, With Projects, Inc., New York and Paris

Maira Kalman 
Artist, Author, Illustrator, and Designer, New York

Emma Scully 
Principal, Emma Scully Gallery, New York

2024 Jury

Sunil Bald
Architect and Principal, studioSUMO, New York; Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct, Yale School of Architecture

Julie Bargmann, 1990 Fellow (Chair)
Founder and Principal, D.I.R.T. studio, Charlottesville, Virginia; Professor Emerita in Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia

Yoonjai Choi
Graphic Designer and Partner, Common Name, New York; Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University

Rosalie Genevro
Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Former Executive Director, Architectural League, New York

Sarah Whiting
Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Design Principal and Cofounder, WW Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sara Zewde
Founding Principal, Studio Zewde, New York; Assistant Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

2023 Jury

Kristi Cheramie, 2017 Fellow
Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture, Knowlton School, Ohio State University 

Rosetta S. Elkin, 2018 Fellow
Professor and Academic Director, Masters of Landscape Program, Pratt Institute 

Sharon Johnston, 2017 Resident
Architect and Founding Partner, JohnstonMarkLee, Los Angeles; Professor in Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Justin Garrett Moore
Program Officer, Humanities in Place, Mellon Foundation, New York 

Quilian Riano
Interim Dean, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute 

Michael Rock, 2000 Fellow, 2023 Resident (Chair) 
Partner and Executive Creative Director, 2x4, New York 

Kevin Walz, 1995 Fellow
Founder and Principal, Walzworkinc., New York

2025 Jury

Mark Dion 
Artist, Copake, New York 

Hideo Mabuchi (Chair) 
Professor of Applied Physics and Denning Family Director, Stanford Arts Institute, Stanford University 

Pamela Smith
Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society, Department of History, Columbia University

2025 Jury

Francesca Casadio (Chair) 
Vice President and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science, Art Institute of Chicago/Northwestern University

Sehila Mota Casper 
Executive Director, Latinos in Heritage Conservation

Jessica Walthew 
Conservator, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Timothy Whalen 
John E. and Louise Bryson Director, Getty Conservation Institute

2024 Jury

James Coddington 
Independent Conservator, New York

Andrew S. Dolkart 
Professor of Historic Preservation, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University

Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, 2022 Fellow 
Associate Director Emerita, Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American Art

Monica Rhodes, 2023 Fellow (Chair) 
Expert Member, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2023 Jury

Ken Lustbader 
Codirector, NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, New York 

Randall Mason, 2013 Fellow (Chair) 
Professor, Historic Preservation/City and Regional Planning, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania 

Eduardo Rojas, 2016 Resident 
Lecturer, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania 

Lori Wong, 2019 Fellow 
Senior Lecturer, Conservation, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Art and Conservation, Courtauld Institute of Art

2025 Jury

Ishion Hutchinson, 2018 Fellow (Chair) 
W. E .B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University

David Leavitt 
Distinguished Professor of English, Department of English, University of Florida

Maaza Mengiste 
Novelist and Professor, Department of English, Wesleyan University

Lisa Olstein 
Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of Creative Writing, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

Judith Shulevitz 
Critic and Essayist, New York

2024 Jury

Peter Cameron 
Writer, New York and Sandgate, Vermont

Susan Choi 
Writer and Professor, Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University

Amy Hempel 
Writer, Gainesville, Florida; Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, Stony Brook Southampton

Campbell McGrath 
Poet and Distinguished University Professor and Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing, Department of English, Florida International University

Deborah Paredez, 2023 Affiliated Fellow (Chair) 
Poet, Associate Professor, and Chair of Creative Writing, School of the Arts, Columbia University

2023 Jury

Paige Ackerson-Kiely 
Director, MFA Writing Program, Sarah Lawrence College 

Chen Chen 
Faculty, Poetry, MFA in Creative Writing, New England College 

Kimiko Hahn 
Distinguished Professor and Assistant Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation, Department of English, Queens College 

Sarah Manguso, 2008 Fellow 
Faculty, MFA in Creative Writing, Antioch University 

Dinaw Mengestu 
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities; Director, Written Arts Program, Bard College 

Nicole Sealey, 2020 Fellow (Chair) 
Visiting Professor, Creative Writing Program, Boston University 

Jeannie Vanasco 
Associate Professor, Department of English, Towson University

2025 Jury

Abigail Balbale 
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University

Susan Boynton, 1999 Fellow (Chair) 
Professor of Music, Historical Musicology, Department of Music, Columbia University

Jonathan P. Conant (2010 Fellow) 
Associate Professor of History, Interim Director of Early Cultures, Director of Medieval Studies, and Associate Professor of Classics, Brown University

Daniel Lord 
Smail Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Harvard University

Roxani Margariti 
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University

2024 Jury

Thomas Burman 
Professor, Department of History, and Robert M. Conway Director, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

Sarah Guérin 
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Anne E. Lester (Chair) 
John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History and Director of Graduate Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Felipe Pereda 
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Ryan Szpiech 
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan; Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan

2023 Jury

Jennifer Davis, 2012 Fellow 
Associate Professor, Department of History, Catholic University of America 

Andrew Hicks 
Associate Professor, Department of Music, and Director, Medieval Studies Program, Cornell University 

Lauren Mancia (Chair) 
Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College, City University of New York 

Helmut Reimitz 
Professor, Department of History, and Director, Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University 

Nina Rowe 
Professor, Department of Art History and Music, Fordham University

2025 Jury

Jessica L. Harris, 2024 Fellow 
Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. John’s University

Lindsay Harris, 2014 Fellow (Chair) 
Head, Research and Scholars Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Carl Ipsen, 1999 Fellow 
Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington

Dana Renga 
Professor of Italian and Dean of Arts and Humanities, Department of French and Italian, Ohio State University

Mary Ann Smart 
Professor, Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley

2024 Jury

Emily Braun 
Distinguished Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Jeffrey Collins, 1997 Fellow 
Professor of Art History and Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center

Victoria De Grazia, 1978 Fellow, 2007 Resident 
Moore Collegiate Professor Emerita, Department of History, Columbia University

Stephanie Malia Hom, 2011 Fellow 
Associate Professor of Transnational Italian Studies, Department of French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara

Larry Wolff (Chair)
Silver Professor and Professor of History, New York University; Former Director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies; Former Executive Director, Remarque Institute; Former Codirector, NYU Florence

2023 Jury

Denise Rae Costanzo, 2015 Fellow (Chair) 
Associate Professor of Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture, Pennsylvania State University 

Martha Feldman 
Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Music, University of Chicago 

Teresa Fiore 
Professor and Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclair State University 

Alex Grab 
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Maine, Orono 

Angelica Pesarini 
Assistant Professor, Department of Italian Studies and Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto

2025 Jury

Martin Bresnick, 1976 Fellow, 2000 Resident 
Professor of Composition, Yale School of Music

Edward Jacobs 
Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus, East Carolina University

Michelle Lou, 2019 Fellow 
Faculty, Composition, Computer Music, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego

Gary Powell 
Nash Professor of Music and Conductor, Fisk Jazz Ensemble, Fisk University

Amy Williams (Chair) 
Professor, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh

2024 Jury

Anthony Cheung, 2013 Fellow 
Composer and Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music, Brown University

Nathan Currier, 1996 Fellow 
Composer, New York

Chaya Czernowin, 2015 Resident (Chair) 
Composer and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Department of Music, Harvard University

George Lewis, 2010 Resident 
Composer and Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Department of Music, Columbia University

David W. Sanford, 2003 Fellow 
Composer and Elizabeth T. Kennan Professor of Music, Department of Music, Mount Holyoke College

2023 Jury

Lisa Bielawa, 2010 Fellow (Chair) 
Composer, Producer, and Vocalist, New York 

Yotam Haber, 2008 Fellow 
2023–24 Fulbright Distinguished Senior Scholar, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance; Associate Professor of Music Composition, University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory 

Nico Muhly, 2018 Resident 
Composer, New York 

Asha Srinivasan 
Associate Professor of Music, Lawrence University 

Trevor Weston 
Professor and Chair, Department of Music, Drew University; Music Advancement Program and Pre-College Faculty, Juilliard School

2025 Jury

Jo Ann Cavallo 
Professor, Department of Italian, Columbia University

Paula Findlen 
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History, Department of History, Stanford University

Roger Freitas, 2004 Fellow 
Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

William Stenhouse 
Professor of History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Yeshiva University

David M. Stone, 1998 Fellow, 2016 Resident (Chair) 
Professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware

2024 Jury

Wendy Heller, 2001 Fellow (Chair) 
Scheide Professor of Music History, Department of Music, Princeton University

Kristina Richardson 
John L. Nau III Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia

Joan-Pau Rubiés 
ICREA Research Professor, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Nick Wilding, 2010 Fellow 
Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University

2023 Jury

Douglas Biow 
Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin 

Cammy Brothers, 1997 Fellow (Chair) 
Associate Professor, College of Arts, Media, and Design, Northeastern University 

Cécile Fromont, 2018 Fellow 
Professor, Department of the History of Art, Yale University 

Mark Jurdjevic 
Professor, History Department, Glendon College, York University 

Ellen Rosand, 2011 Resident 
George A. Saden Professor Emeritus of Music, Department of Music, Yale University

2025 Jury

Lihong Liu 
Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures and Assistant Professor of History of Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan

Walter Scheidel (Chair) 
Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and History, Stanford University

Don J. Wyatt 
John M. McCardell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History, Middlebury College

2024 Jury

Nicola Di Cosmo (Chair) 
Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

Lothar von Falkenhausen 
Professor, Chinese Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

Gaoheng Zhang 
Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia

2023 Jury

Christopher Connery 
Professor, Literature and History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz 

Jinyu Liu (Chair) 
Professor, Department of Classical Studies, DePauw University 

Eugene Wang 
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Founding Director, Harvard CAMLab

2025 Jury

Sanford Biggers, 2018 Fellow 
Artist, New York

Alex Da Corte, 2023 Fellow 
Artist, Philadelphia

Donatien Grau 
Head of Contemporary Programs, Musée du Louvre

Michael Rakowitz, 2023 Resident 
Artist, Chicago

Meg Rotzel (Chair) 
Artist and Curator of Exhibitions, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

2024 Jury

James Casebere, 2020 Fellow 
Artist, Canaan, New York and Brooklyn

Patricia Cronin, 2007 Fellow (Chair) 
Artist and Distinguished Professor of Art, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

E. V. Day, 2017 Fellow 
Artist, New York

Abigail DeVille, 2018 Fellow 
Artist, Bronx

Catherine J. Morris 
Senior Curator, Brooklyn Museum

Gary Simmons 
Artist, Los Angeles

2023 Jury

Shimon Attie, 2002 Fellow 
Artist, New York

Naomi Beckwith (Cochair) 
Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Anna Betbeze, 2014 Fellow 
Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of California, Riverside

Karyn Olivier, 2019 Fellow 
Professor of Sculpture, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

Deborah Willis, 2019 Resident 
University Professor and Chair, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Fred Wilson, 2020 Resident (Cochair) 
Artist, New York