The American Academy in Rome's 2020–21 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows
The American Academy in Rome today published the latest winners of its annual Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. Twenty-two American and two Italian artists and scholars were recognized for their academic work and research in various fields of architecture, design, the arts, and humanities. This year's prize winners in the Architecture category are UCLA lecturer Katy Barkan and UC San Diego Associate Professor David Serlin. Take a look at the complete list below. ARCHITECTURE Rome Prize in Architecture: Katy Barkan Lecturer, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles Obelisks: A History of Uncertainty Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon/Frances Barker Tracy Rome Prize: David Serlin Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego Sensory Design and Architectural Empathy in the “Progetto Ophelia” DESIGN Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize: Steven ParkerLecturer, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio; Curator, SoundSpace at the Blanton Museum of Art Futurist Opera Mark Hampton/Jesse Howard Jr. Rome Prize: Terese Wadden Costume Designer, Brooklyn The Clothes of Rome HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize: Jean DommermuthLecturer, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Conservator, ArtCare, New York Sixteenth-Century Florentine Canvas Painting Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize: Paulette Marie Singley Professor, Department of Architecture, Woodbury University Preserving Perishables: Strategies for Conserving the Cultural History of Cuisine in Contemporary Rome LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize: Kevin Benham Assistant Professor, Jon Emerson/ Wayne Womack Design Professorship, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University A Line in the Land: Tracing the Transhumance Garden Club of America Rome Prize: Robert Gerard Pietrusko Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Adapting the Viticultural Landscape ANCIENT STUDIES Arthur Ross/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize: Dillon GischPhD Candidate, Department of Classics, Stanford University Replication and Difference in Images of “Modest Venus,” 200 BCE–600 CE Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Emeline Hill Richardson Rome Prize: Rebecca Levitan PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley The Pasquino Group: Sculpture, Conversation, and Resistance from Ancient Rome to Renaissance Italy Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize: Maggie L. Popkin Robson Junior Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome Millicent Mercer Johnsen/ Irene Rosenzweig Rome Prize: Christy Q. Schirmer PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin Exploiting Riverine Resources in the Roman Empire LITERATURE John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, A gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman: Alexandra KleemanAssistant Professor, Department of Writing, The New School The Taxon Cycle: A Novel MEDIEVAL STUDIES Marian and Andrew Heiskell/ Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize: Danny Smith PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Stanford University Dreaming in Public in Late Medieval Rome MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize: Anna Dumont PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Northwestern University From Design Reform to Fascist Craft: Women and Italian Textile Production, 1870–1945 Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize: Matthew H. Ellis Professor, Department of History, Sarah Lawrence College In the Shadows of Italian Empire: Libya, Egypt, and the Politics of Cross-Border Migration and Exile, 1911–1970 MUSICAL COMPOSITION Elliott Carter Rome Prize: Katherine Balch Composer, New York Kalesa Ed Kaluca: Music for double bass (and) Luciano Berio Rome Prize: William Dougherty Department of Music, Columbia University New Works for Konus Quartett, TILT Brass, Ensemble Resilience, and Ensemble Proton Bern RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES National Endowment for the Humanities/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize: Carla Keyvanian Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Auburn University Humanist History and Architecture in Sistine Rome Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: Rebecca Messbarger Professor of Italian, Affiliate Professor of History, Art History, Performing Arts, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis Ghostly Light: How Criminal Corpses Animated the Italian Enlightenment Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Donald and Maria Cox Rome Prize: Lindsay Sheedy PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis Un’orrida bellezza: Religious Polychrome Scul
The American Academy in Rome today published the latest winners of its annual Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. Twenty-two American and two Italian artists and scholars were recognized for their academic work and research in various fields of architecture, design, the arts, and humanities.
This year's prize winners in the Architecture category are UCLA lecturer Katy Barkan and UC San Diego Associate Professor David Serlin.
Take a look at the complete list below.
ARCHITECTURE
- Rome Prize in Architecture: Katy Barkan
Lecturer, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles
Obelisks: A History of Uncertainty - Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards
Gordon/Frances Barker Tracy Rome Prize: David Serlin
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Sensory Design and Architectural Empathy in the “Progetto Ophelia”
DESIGN
- Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky
Rome Prize: Steven Parker
Lecturer, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio; Curator, SoundSpace at the Blanton Museum of Art
Futurist Opera - Mark Hampton/Jesse Howard Jr.
Rome Prize: Terese Wadden
Costume Designer, Brooklyn
The Clothes of Rome
HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION
- Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize: Jean Dommermuth
Lecturer, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Conservator, ArtCare, New York
Sixteenth-Century Florentine Canvas Painting - Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize: Paulette Marie Singley
Professor, Department of Architecture, Woodbury University
Preserving Perishables: Strategies for Conserving the Cultural History of Cuisine in Contemporary Rome
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
- Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster
Brewster Rome Prize: Kevin Benham
Assistant Professor, Jon Emerson/ Wayne Womack Design Professorship, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University
A Line in the Land: Tracing the Transhumance - Garden Club of America Rome Prize: Robert Gerard Pietrusko
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Adapting the Viticultural Landscape
ANCIENT STUDIES
- Arthur Ross/Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Rome Prize: Dillon Gisch
PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, Stanford University
Replication and Difference in Images of “Modest Venus,” 200 BCE–600 CE - Samuel H. Kress Foundation/
Emeline Hill Richardson Rome Prize: Rebecca Levitan
PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
The Pasquino Group: Sculpture, Conversation, and Resistance from Ancient Rome to Renaissance Italy - Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize: Maggie L. Popkin
Robson
Junior Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University
Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome - Millicent Mercer Johnsen/
Irene Rosenzweig Rome Prize: Christy Q. Schirmer
PhD Candidate, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
Exploiting Riverine Resources in the Roman Empire
LITERATURE
- John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize,
A gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman: Alexandra Kleeman
Assistant Professor, Department of Writing, The New School
The Taxon Cycle: A Novel
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
- Marian and Andrew Heiskell/
Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize: Danny Smith
PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Stanford University
Dreaming in Public in Late Medieval Rome
MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES
- Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize: Anna Dumont
PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
From Design Reform to Fascist Craft: Women and Italian Textile Production, 1870–1945 - Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Rome Prize: Matthew H. Ellis
Professor, Department of History, Sarah Lawrence College
In the Shadows of Italian Empire: Libya, Egypt, and the Politics of Cross-Border Migration and Exile, 1911–1970
MUSICAL COMPOSITION
- Elliott Carter Rome Prize: Katherine Balch
Composer, New York
Kalesa Ed Kaluca: Music for double bass (and) - Luciano Berio Rome Prize: William Dougherty
Department of Music, Columbia University
New Works for Konus Quartett, TILT Brass, Ensemble Resilience, and Ensemble Proton Bern
RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
- National Endowment for the Humanities/
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize: Carla Keyvanian
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Auburn University
Humanist History and Architecture in Sistine Rome - Rome Prize in Renaissance and
Early Modern Studies: Rebecca Messbarger
Professor of Italian, Affiliate Professor of History, Art History, Performing Arts, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis
Ghostly Light: How Criminal Corpses Animated the Italian Enlightenment - Samuel H. Kress Foundation/
Donald and Maria Cox Rome Prize: Lindsay Sheedy
PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Un’orrida bellezza: Religious Polychrome Sculpture in the Kingdom of Naples (1503–1714)
VISUAL ARTS
- Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize: Jennifer Packer
Assistant Professor, Department of Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
Fantasy in the Hold
TERRA FOUNDATION AFFILIATED FELLOWSHIP IN ROME
- Gloria J. Bell
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Eternal Sovereigns: Indigenous Artists, Activists, and Travelers Reframing Rome
