Features

Lucas René Ramos is investigating the transnational networks that shaped Italy’s queer activism as a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy.

The American Academy in Rome celebrated twenty years of the McKim Medal Gala on June 4 at Villa Aurelia.

AAR caught up with Krupali Krusche, whose research focuses on Palladio’s drawings and their enduring influence on how we interpret ruins, space, and architectural memory.

Milo H. Thompson (1965 Fellow), an award-winning architect, educator, and founding principal of the influential architectural firm Bentz/Thompson/Rietow (BTR), died on April 10, 2025.

Carol E. Harrison’s project A Women’s History of Vatican I explores how lay Catholic women opposed papal infallibility during the First Vatican Council (1869–70).

We interview Peter Benson Miller, a scholar, curator, and former Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, after his lecture at the American Academy in Rome last March.

The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale centers the American Academy’s fellows, residents, advisors, and affiliated artists and scholars on the world stage. 

The architect David Costanza is rethinking the assumptions behind sustainable building, pushing beyond carbon metrics to consider the human, historical, and technical dimensions of material use.

Rome Prize and Italian Fellows are prominently represented in The Spanish Steps, Revisited, a special exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.

Earlier this month, the American Academy in Rome hosted Coins, Counting, and Community, a two-day conference examining the insights emerging from the Roman Republican Die Project 

The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2025–26 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships.

Jenny Lin, the 2025 Tsao Family Rome Prize Fellow, shares how her project came about, where she has conducted research, and what her favorite vintage clothing market is.

Seven artists and scholars with ties to the American Academy in Rome have been named 2025 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellows—an enduring sign of the Academy’s creative reach and influence.

The Academy recently checked in with the visual artist Sheila Pepe, who returned to the US in January following her half-term fellowship.

AAR’s Photographic Archive has created two significant digital collections now accessible through the Digital Humanities Center: the Conlin Collection and the Fasti Archaeologici Photo Collection.

The Academy checked in with Julia Rose Katz to ask about her progress on her dissertation, “Circe’s Wand: Reimagining Antiquities in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800,” 

AAR caught up with Anthony Acciavatti, our 2025 Rome Prize Fellow in landscape architecture, this month after completing his fellowship in January.

We caught up with Vassiliki Panoussi to learn more about her current work, the questions driving her research, and how her time in Rome is shaping the project.

AAR reconnected with Daria Scia (2025 Italian Fellow), a composer renowned for her innovative approach to contemporary classical music, after her departure from the Academy.

AAR mourns the loss of Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer and our 2025 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, who passed away on March 20.