New York (19 April 2007) – Today the Trustees of
the American Academy in Rome announced the winners of the
2007-08 Rome Prize Competition. Awardees are provided with
a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for a
period of 6 months to 2 years.
The announcement was made by Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR’84,
President of the American Academy in Rome, who stated that
the Trustees had awarded the fellowships at the board meeting
earlier in the day. The following individuals will take
up residence at the American Academy in Rome in September
2007:
ANCIENT STUDIES
Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
ROBERT R. CHENAULT
Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History, University
of Michigan
Rome and its Senators in the Fourth Century A.D.
National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
JACKIE ELLIOTT
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University
of Colorado at Boulder
Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales
Frances Barker Tracy/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Helen
M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute
of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one of a two-year fellowship)
JOHN N. N. HOPKINS
Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas
at Austin
The Topographical Transformation of Archaic Rome: A New
Interpretation of Architecture and Geography in the Early
City
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
ELEANOR M. RUST
Department of Classics, University of Southern California
Ex Angulis Secretisque Librorum: Reading, Writing, and
Using Miscellaneous Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae
Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
DYLAN SAILOR
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University
of California, Berkeley
Prestige, Ambition, and the Writing of History in the Early
Principate
Jesse Benedict Carter/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral
Rome Prize
RACHEL VAN DUSEN
Department of Classics, University at Buffalo
Central Apennines: A History of Cultural Change in the
Highlands of Central Italy
ARCHITECTURE
Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize
FREDERICK FISHER
Principal-in-Charge, Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects
Art Space Collage
Founders Rome Prize
DANIEL MIHALYO/ANNIE HAN
Lead Pencil Studio
SPATIAL INQUIRY: Looking at Nothing in Rome
DESIGN
Rolland Rome Prize
JOHN CARY
Executive Director, Public Architecture
Activist Architecture | Attivismo architettonico
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
MOLISSA FENLEY
Artistic Director, Molissa Fenley and Dancers
The Pattern of the Surface
HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION
Booth Family Rome Prize
JANA DAMBROGIO
Conservator, Document Conservation Laboratory, National
Archives and Records Administration
A Technical Study of Northeastern Italian Monastic Legal
and Accounting Documents and Bindings at the Vatican Secret
Archives
National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
JOHN OCHSENDORF
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
The Preservation of Masonry Vaulting in Rome
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
ALAN BERGER
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Graduate
School of Design, Harvard University
Landscape Reclamation and the Pontine Marshes
Garden Club of America Rome Prize
LISA TZIONA SWITKIN
Senior Associate, Field Operations
Monument Landscapes: Constriction and Construction of the
City
LITERATURE
John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy
and Lewis B. Cullman
JUNOT DÍAZ
Writer and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tokyo Rose: a novel
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American
Academy of Arts and Letters
SARAH MANGUSO
Writer and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
Writing for Publication, Performance & Media, Pratt
Institute
The Guardians (a collection of short prose)
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
FLORENCE ELIZA GLAZE
Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director, The Honors
Program, Coastal Carolina University
Gariopontus and the Salernitans: Medical Texts and Medical
Practice in Southern Italy c. 1050-1225
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one of a two-year fellowship)
ERIK GUSTAFSON
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Tradition and Renewal in the Thirteenth-Century Franciscan
Architecture of Tuscany
MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES
National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
PAUL ARPAIA
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Indiana University
of Pennsylvania
Luigi Federzoni, Standardbearer of italianità from
Liberal to Post-Fascist Italy
Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
CHRISTINA FERANDO
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Staging Neoclassicism
MUSICAL COMPOSITION
Samuel Barber Rome Prize
ERIN GEE
Composer
Sleep Towards Sound: An Opera in Four Acts
Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize
YOTAM HABER
Composer
Music in the Jewish Community of Rome: Research and Composition
of a New Work for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
THOMAS FREDERICK MAYER
Professor, Department of History, Augustana College
Trying Galileo
Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
DANIEL R. McREYNOLDS
Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Refiguring the Palladian Legacy: Architectural Reform in
Eighteenth-Century Venice
Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral
Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
GREGORY WALDROP
History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley
Sight Unseen: Priests and Visual Representation in Early
Quattrocento Siena
Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
MARJORIE CURRY WOODS
Associate Professor, Department of English, The University
of Texas at Austin
Weeping for Dido: Male Writers and Female Emotions in the
Medieval and Renaissance Classroom
VISUAL ARTS
Chuck Close Rome Prize
DANIEL BOZHKOV
Artist
Eternity’s Ephemera: Frescoes of Rome’s
Daily Histories
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
TIM DAVIS
Photographer
(Ill)illuminations
John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan
Museum of Art Rome Prize
KATE GILMORE
Artist and Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Design,
State University of New York at Purchase
Untitled
Jesse Howard, Jr. Rome Prize
CAVEH ZAHEDI
Filmmaker
Ulysses
The Rome Prize is awarded annually through an open competition
that is juried by leading artists and scholars in the fellowship
fields. Forty individuals were invited to make up eight
juries to review the applications.
The juries this year were chaired by Miranda Marvin, RAAR'04
(Ancient Studies), Thom Mayne (Design), Paula M. De Cristofaro,
FAAR'06 (Historic Preservation/Conservation), Edmund White
(Literature through the Committee for Awards of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters), Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Medieval
Studies), Victoria de Grazia, FAAR'78, RAAR'07 (Modern
Italian Studies), Steven Stucky, RAAR'06 (Musical composition),
Mark Weil, RAAR'86 (Renaissance and Early Modern Studies),
and Laurie Simmons, RAAR'05 (Visual Arts).
Established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of Congress
in 1905, the American Academy in Rome is a center that
sustains independent artistic pursuits and humanistic studies.
It is situated on the Janiculum, the highest hill within
the walls of Rome. Each year, through a national competition,
the Rome Prize is awarded to up to 30 individuals - emerging
artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture,
Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature,
Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and scholars (working
in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern, or
Modern Italian Studies). The application deadline is November
1st.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Shawn Miller, Program Director
American Academy in Rome
7 East 60 Street
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 212-751-7200 ext. 42
Fax. 212-751-7220
E-mail: s.miller@aarome.org
