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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAmerican Academy in Rome Announces2022–23 Rome Prize Winners and Italian FellowsArtists and scholars given time and space to think and work in RomeROME AND NEW YORK (April 25, 2022) – The American Academy in Rome (AAR) announced today thewinners of the 2022–23 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships supportadvanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, the gift of “time and spaceto think and work” was awarded to thirty-eight American and four Italian artists and scholars. They willeach receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus on theJaniculum Hill in Rome, starting in September 2022.The Rome Prize and Italian Fellowship winners will be presented in person during the annual Arthur andJanet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony. The event will also feature a Conversations/Conversazioni between theacclaimed composer and Bang on a Can cofounder David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident) and AARPresident Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow). In addition, one of Lang’s compositions—the Academy Award–nominated “Simple Song #3”—will be performed live. The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is the 2021–22sponsor of the Conversations/Conversazioni series.“This year’s Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows represents the diversity of the United States, and theirprojects build on the Academy’s commitment to the global impact of the arts and humanities,” said MarkRobbins, AAR President and CEO. “These fellowships are transformative, and we look forward to seeingthe ways this experience is translated in the work to come.”Rome Prize winners are selected annually by independent juries of distinguished artists and scholarsthrough a national competition. The eleven disciplines supported by the Academy are: ancient studies,architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, medievalstudies, modern Italian studies, music composition, Renaissance and early modern studies, and visualarts. The selected candidates were ratified by the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome.Nationwide, the Rome Prize competition received 909 applications, representing 47 US states andterritories and 19 different countries. Thirty-three Rome Prizes were awarded to 37 individuals (four prizesare collaborations), representing an acceptance rate of 3.6 percent. This group of Rome Prize winners isamong the most diverse in the Academy’s history. Approximately 46 percent of the winners identify aspersons of color, representing a new high for this demographic. Twenty-four percent of the Rome Prizewinners were born outside the United States. Ages of the incoming group range from 27 to 67, with anaverage age of 43.In addition to the Rome Prize winners, the Academy announced the recipients of four Italian Fellowships,through which Italian artists and scholars live and work in the Academy community, pursuing their own7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022aarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
projects in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment with theirAmerican counterparts. The Italian Fellows are also selected through a national jury process. A TerraFoundation Fellow was also selected.A full list of the 2022–23 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows, as well as the international jurors whoselected them, follows.American Academy in RomeEstablished in 1894, the American Academy in Rome (AAR) is America’s oldest overseas center forindependent studies and advanced research in the arts and humanities. The Academy has since evolved tobecome a more global and diverse base for artists and scholars to live and work in Rome. The residentialcommunity includes a wide range of scholarly and artistic disciplines, which is representative of the UnitedStates and is fully engaged with Italy and contemporary international exchange. The support provided bythe Academy to Rome Prize and Italian Fellows, and invited Residents, helps strengthen the arts andhumanities.To learn more about the American Academy in Rome, please visit aarome.org.Media InquiriesAndrew MitchellDirector of Communications212-751-7200, ext. 342a.mitchell@aarome.org7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022Rachel JudloweJudlowe, LLC917-608-8855rachel@judlowe.comaarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
2022 Rome Prize Fellowship Winners and JurorsANCIENT STUDIESARCHITECTUREAndrew Heiskell Rome PrizeSarah BeckmannAssistant Professor, Department of Classics,University of California, Los AngelesThe Villa in Late Antiquity: Roman Ideals and LocalIdentitiesArnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards GordonRome PrizeMichael Meredith and Hilary SamplePrincipals and Founders, MOS Architects,New YorkCorviale: One-Kilometer-Long Social HousingDorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome PrizeEmily L. HurtPhD Candidate, Department of History, YaleUniversityPalimpsest Cities of the Roman EmpireRome Prize in ArchitectureJennifer Newsom and Tom CarruthersFounding Principals, Dream The Combine,MinneapolisAssistant Professor and Assistant Professor ofthe Practice, College of Architecture, Art, andPlanning, Cornell UniversityWandering Stars, Vanishing Points: OverwritingSpatial Imaginaries of RomeAndrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome PrizeEvan JewellAssistant Professor, Department of History,Rutgers University, CamdenYouth and Power: Acting Your Age in the RomanEmpire (149 BCE–68 CE)DESIGNArthur Ross Rome PrizeAndrew R. LundPhD Candidate, Department of Classics,University of CincinnatiSeneca Comicus: Comic Enrichment and theReception of the seruus callidus in Senecan TragedySamuel H. Kress Foundation/Emeline HillRichardson Rome PrizeLillian Clare SellatiPhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art,Yale UniversityWhen Is Herakles Not Himself? IntentionalIconographic Slippage in Greater Central Asia, 330BCE to 230 CE7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022Rolland Rome PrizeJohn DavisPianist, BrooklynKeys to the Highway: Nineteenth-Century AfricanAmerican Pianists on the Road to Jazz, Rhythm &Blues, and Rock ‘n’ RollCynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon PolskyRome PrizeJasmine Hearn and Athena KokoronisDesigners, BrooklynAn introduction TOWARDS A REPERTORYCLOSETaarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
HISTORIC PRESERVATION ANDCONSERVATIONSuzanne Deal Booth Rome PrizePreeti ChopraProfessor, Department of Art History, Universityof Wisconsin, MadisonHistoric Preservation, British Monuments, and theLegacy of Ancient Rome in Modern IndiaAdele Chatfield-Taylor Rome PrizeMonica RhodesLoeb Fellow, Graduate School of Design, HarvardUniversityPreservation and Public EngagementLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTUREGilmore D. Clark and Michael I. Rapuano/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome PrizeKatherine Jenkins and Parker SuttonPrincipals, Present Practice, Columbus, Ohio; andAssistant Professors of Landscape Architecture,Knowlton School, Ohio State UniversityRoman Aesthetics of CareGarden Club of America/Prince CharitableTrusts Rome PrizeAlexa Vaughn, ASLALandscape Designer and Accessibility Specialist,Los AngelesSorda Nella Città Eterna Deaf in the Eternal City:Deaf and Disabled Storytelling and CreativeInvestigations in the Aesthetic Intersections ofAccessibility and Historic Preservation in RomanLandscapesLITERATUREJohn Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift ofDorothy and Lewis B. CullmanGina ApostolTeacher, Department of English, Ethical CultureFieldston SchoolThe Treatment of Paz (novel)7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022Rome Prize in LiteratureJamel BrinkleyAssistant Professor, Fiction, Program in CreativeWriting, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University ofIowaAnother Life: A NovelRome Prize in LiteratureTung-Hui HuAssociate Professor, Department of English,University of MichiganPunishment, an IndexJoseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of theDrue Heinz TrustRobyn SchiffProfessor, Department of English, EmoryUniversityInformation Desk: An EpicMEDIEVAL STUDIESDonald and Maria Cox/Andrew W. MellonFoundation/National Endowment for theHumanities Rome PrizeLamia BalafrejAssociate Professor, Department of Art History,University of California, Los AngelesCorporeal Instruments: Art, Technology, and Slaveryin the Medieval MediterraneanSamuel H. Kress Foundation Rome PrizeDenva E. GallantAssistant Professor, Department of Art History,University of DelawareIllustrating the Vitae Patrum: The Rise of theEremitic Ideal in Fourteenth-Century ItalyAndrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome PrizeCarolyn J. QuijanoPhD Candidate, Department of History, ColumbiaUniversityForeign Magistracies and Accountability in theMedieval Italian Communes, c. 1200–1400aarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
MODERN ITALIAN STUDIESMarian and Andrew Heiskell Rome PrizeStephanie LeitzelPhD Candidate, Department of History, HarvardUniversityEconomies of Color: Italian Capitalists, DyeCommerce, and the Making of a Global Economy(1450–1650)Lily Auchincloss Rome PrizeSaskia K. VerlaanPhD Candidate, Department of Art History,Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBetween Drawing and Script: Asemic Writing byFeminist Artists in Italy 1968–1980National Endowment for the HumanitiesRome PrizeS. Elizabeth PenryAssociate Professor, Department of History,Fordham UniversityThe Italian Renaissance in Diaspora: JesuitEducation and Indigenous ModernitiesMillicent Mercer Johnsen/National Endowmentfor the Humanities Rome PrizeKonstantina ZanouAssistant Professor, Department of Italian,Columbia UniversitySoldiers of Fortune: Two Brothers and theAdventures of Antiquities from the OttomanMediterranean to Gilded Age New YorkVISUAL ARTSMUSICAL COMPOSITIONRome Prize in Visual ArtsTony CokesProfessor, Department of Modern Culture andMedia, Brown UniversityThe Daily Practice of Representation: The Artist andthe StudioLuciano Berio Rome PrizeMiya MasaokaAssociate Professor and Director, Sound Art,School of the Arts, Columbia UniversityThe Horizon Leans Forward for the InternationalContemporary EnsembleJoseph H. Hazen Rome PrizeTodd GrayArtist, Los Angeles and Akwidaa, Ghanathe hidden order of the wholeElliott Carter Rome PrizeChristopher StarkAssociate Professor, Department of Music,Washington University in St. LouisPiano TrioNancy B. Negley Rome PrizeEster PartegàsArtist, New YorkBreathing StructuresRENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERNSTUDIESPaul Mellon Rome PrizeElizabeth G. ElmiVisiting Assistant Professor, Department ofMusicology, University of North Carolina atChapel HillInscribing the Self in Occupied Southern Italy:Culture, Politics, and Identity in Lyric Song Practicesof the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022Abigail Cohen Rome PrizeElle PerezAssistant Professor, Department of Art, Film, andVisual Studies, Harvard UniversitySurrenderPhilip Guston Rome PrizeIoana M. Uricaruaarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
Associate Professor, Department of Film andMedia Culture, Middlebury CollegeURSA MAJOREnel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture,Urban Design, and Landscape ArchitectureAlessandro MulazzaniLandscape Architect, VeniceThe Sea of Rome: A Quest for a Coastal SustainableLandscapePhilip Guston Rome PrizeBradford M. YoungOwner and Cinematographer, Bradford YoungDP, BaltimoreUntitled GYMRITALIAN FELLOWSFranco Zeffirelli Italian FellowEdward LossJean François Malle Fellow, I Tatti, HarvardUniversity Center for Italian Renaissance StudiesThe Pope as a Spymaster: Papacy, Espionage, andInstitutions of Information Gathering of LateMedieval Italy (Late Thirteenth and FourteenthCenturies)Marcello Lotti Italian Fellow in MusicMarco MomiMusic Composer, PerugiaCommunity ConcertoFondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT ItalianFellow in Visual ArtsAlice VisentinVisual Artist, TurinMalefateTERRA FOUNDATION FELLOWAnna E. Arabindan-KessonAssistant Professor, Departments of AfricanAmerican Studies and Art and Archaeology,Princeton UniversityA Dream of Italy: Black Geographies and the GrandTourJuriesANCIENT STUDIESEmily Greenwood, Jury ChairLaurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Classics andthe University Center for Human Values,Princeton UniversitySeth Bernard (2011 Fellow)Associate Professor, Department of Classics,University of TorontoJane D. ChaplinJames I. Armstrong Professor of Classics, EveAdler Department of Classics, MiddleburyCollege7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022Allison L. C. Emmerson (2019 Fellow)Associate Professor, Department of ClassicalStudies, Tulane UniversityJinyu LiuProfessor, Department of Classical Studies,DePauw UniversityDESIGNMichael Bierut, Jury Chair (2016 Resident)Partner, Pentagram, New Yorkaarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
J. Yolande Daniels (2004 Fellow)Principal, studioSUMO; and Associate Professor,Architecture, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnologyIntegratedConservation Contracting (ICR-ICC), New YorkFelecia DavisPrincipal, Felecia Davis Studio; and AssociateProfessor of Architecture, College of Arts andArchitecture, Pennsylvania State UniversityBruce Smith, Jury Chair (2016 Resident)Professor, Department of English, SyracuseUniversityLITERATUREGary Hilderbrand (1995 Fellow, 2018 Resident)Principal, Reed-Hilderbrand, Cambridge,Massachusetts; and Peter Louis HornbeckProfessor in Practice of Landscape Architecture,Graduate School of Design, Harvard UniversityWalter J. Hood (1997 Fellow, 2014 Resident)Creative Director, Hood Design Studio, Berkeley;and Professor of Landscape Architecture &Environmental Planning and Urban Design,University of California, BerkeleyCalvin Tsao (2010 Resident)Principal, Tsao & McKown Architects, New YorkAlexandra Kleeman (2021 Fellow)Assistant Professor of Writing, Creative WritingProgram, New SchoolYiyun LiProfessor of Creative Writing, Lewis Center forthe Arts, Princeton UniversityMary Jo SalterKrieger-Eisenhower Professor, Writing Seminars,Johns Hopkins UniversityMEDIEVAL STUDIESHISTORIC PRESERVATION ANDCONSERVATIONWilliam Connell, Jury ChairProfessor of History and La Motta Endowed Chairin Italian Studies, Department of History, SetonHall UniversityThompson M. Mayes, Jury Chair (2014 Fellow)Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, NationalTrust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DCSusan Boynton (1999 Fellow)Professor of Music (Historical Musicology),Department of Music, Columbia UniversityAmy FreitagExecutive Director, J. M. Kaplan Fund, New YorkJoshua O'DriscollAssistant Curator of Medieval and RenaissanceManuscripts, Morgan Library and MuseumStella Nair (2017 Fellow)Associate Professor, Indigenous Arts of theAmericas, Department of Art History, Universityof California, Los AngelesCristina PuglisiConservator and Senior Project Manager,Integrated Conservation Resources and7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022Joëlle Rollo-KosterProfessor of Medieval History, Department ofHistory, University of Rhode IslandTeofilo F. Ruiz (2020 Resident)Distinguished Research Professor (emeritus),Department of History, University of California,Los Angelesaarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
Barbara WhiteProfessor, Department of Music, PrincetonUniversityMODERN ITALIAN STUDIESSilvana Patriarca, Jury ChairProfessor of History, Department of History,Fordham UniversityRENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERNSTUDIESSean S. Anderson (2005 Fellow)Director, Undergraduate BArch Program andAssociate Professor, Department of Architecture,Cornell UniversityLeslie Cozzi (2018 Fellow)Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, andPhotographs, Baltimore Museum of ArtShelleen GreeneAssociate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies,Department of Film, Television, and DigitalMedia, University of California, Los AngelesGaoheng ZhangAssociate Professor, Department of French,Hispanic, and Italian Studies, University of BritishColumbiaMUSICAL COMPOSITIONEstelle Lingo, Jury ChairProfessor of Art History and Floyd and DeloresJones Endowed Chair in the Arts, School of Art,Art History, and Design, University ofWashington, SeattleSusanna BergerAssociate Professor of Art History andPhilosophy, University of Southern CaliforniaMargaret Meserve (2007 Fellow)Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor,Department of History, University of Notre DameJessie Ann OwensDistinguished Professor Emeritus, Music,University of California, DavisNicholas Terpstra (2019 Affiliated Fellow)Professor, Department of History, University ofTorontoAndrew Norman, Jury Chair (2007 Fellow)Professor of Composition, Juilliard SchoolVISUAL ARTSChen YiLorena Searcy Cravens/Millsap/MissouriDistinguished Professor of Composition,Conservatory, University of Missouri, Kansas CityVittorio Montalti (2014 Italian Fellow)Professor of Composition, Potenza ConservatoryAugusta Read ThomasUniversity Professor of Composition, Departmentof Music, University of ChicagoKate Fowle, Jury ChairDirector, MoMA PS1E. V. Day (2017 Fellow)Artist, New YorkAllen Frame (2018 Fellow)Artist and Adjunct Professor, Photography MFA,Pratt InstituteRashid JohnsonArtist, New York7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022aarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow)Artist and University Artist in Residence,Syracuse UniversityMargaretta LovellProfessor, Jay D. McEvoy Jr. Professor ofAmerican Art and Architecture, Department ofArt History, University of California, BerkeleyTERRA FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPWinners of this award are selected through apreliminary jury for the Terra FoundationFellowship (listed above) and the Rome Prize juryfor modern Italian studies.John Davis - Jury ChairPresident, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield,MassachusettsDiana GreenwoldLunder Curator of American Art, Freer Gallery ofArt, Smithsonian Institution7 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022aarome.orgVia Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma Italia
Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample Principals and Founders, MOS Architects, New York Corviale: One-Kilometer-Long Social Housing Rome Prize in Architecture Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers Founding Principals, Dream The Combine, Minneapolis Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of
