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First held in 1923, the Classical Summer School was designed to give American high school Latin teachers direct experience with places in Italy associated with antiquity and return with a renewed enthusiasm for and greater understanding of their subjects.

The exhibition, called The Landscape of Cosa, tells its story using photographs from two important collections in the Academy’s Photographic Archive.

COVID-19 restrictions in Rome earlier this year led a 2021 Fellow in literature to conceive of an experimental dinner, realized in July with the Rome Sustainable Food Project, that takes overlooked and discarded ingredients as inspiration.

Five 2021 Fellows who have just returned from Rome share their favorite places in the city and region.

On October 26, AAR will present the 2021 New York Gala honoring three individuals—scholar and administrator Mary Schmidt Campbell, writer John Guare, and artist Julie Mehretu—who advance the arts and humanities.

As interim Director, Elizabeth Rodini will head a team of talented scholars, with Marla Stone joining as the new Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor and Lindsay Harris as interim Andrew Heiskell Arts Director.

Among the group of thirteen AAR Residents for the upcoming 2021–22 academic year will be the poet Natasha Trethewey, the art historian Dario Gamboni, and the filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

AAR and the University of Michigan Press have just released volume 65 of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.

Margaret L. Laird, an independent scholar whose research focuses on Roman art and archaeology of the imperial period and a 2000 Rome Prize Fellow, has been appointed to a three-year term as editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.

This year, the gift of “time and space to think and work” was awarded to thirty-five American and five Italian artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome, starting in September 2021.

Leslie Cozzi (2018 Fellow) interviews the artist Tomaso De Luca (2017 Italian Fellow), whose work can be seen in Rome at the Quadriennale d’arte and the MAXXI Bvlgari Prize 2020.

Marla Stone, a professor of modern European history at Occidental College and a 1996 Rome Prize Fellow in Post-Classical Humanistic Studies, has been appointed AAR’s next Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor.

AAR is beyond grateful to reopen for yet another season and welcome our new class of Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows to the Eternal City.

The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce its slate of Residents for 2021.

The American Academy in Rome remembers the artist and 2005 Fellow Jackie Saccoccio, who died on December 4.

Photographer Carole Raddato has gifted the core of her vast collection—some 30,000 digital images—to the AAR Library to ensure its long-term preservation and continued access to scholars.

The Library of the American Academy in Rome has reopened its doors to scholars.

Marilyn Hernández, deputy chief development officer for individual giving at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the Academy’s new Vice President for Development.

Sanjaya Thakur, associate professor and chair of the Classics Department at Colorado College, has been appointed director of AAR’s Classical Summer School.

Matthew Brennan is the 2020 Booth Family Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation and a PhD candidate in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University in Bloomington.