Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony held at the Metropolitan Club in New York on April 18. Recipients of the 2013–14 Rome Prizes are provided with a fellowship that includes a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for a period of six months to two years in Rome, Italy.
The 2013–14 Rome Prize winners are:
- Ryan Bailey, Ancient Studies
- Anna Gimon Betbeze, Visual Arts
- Peter Bognanni, Literature
- Sheramy D. Bundrick, Ancient Studies
- Bradley E. Cantrell, Landscape Architecture
- Nicholas de Monchaux, Design
- Hamlett Dobbins, Visual Arts
- Martin Eisner, Medieval Studies
- Stephanie Ann Frampton, Ancient Studies
- Mari Yoko Hara, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Lindsay Harris, Modern Italian Studies
- Dan Hurlin, Visual Arts
- Thomas Kelley, Architecture
- Elizabeth Fain LaBombard, Landscape Architecture
- Thomas Leslie, Historic Preservation and Conservation
- Ruth W. Lo, Modern Italian Studies
- Maya Maskarinec, Medieval Studies
- Thompson M. Mayes, Historic Preservation and Conservation
- Eric Nathan, Musical Composition
- Catie Newell, Architecture
- Patrick Nold, Medieval Studies
- Jessica Nowlin, Ancient Studies
- Ruth Noyes, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Max Page, Historic Preservation and Conservation
- Gabrielle Piedad Ponce, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Irene San Pietro, Ancient Studies
- Reynold Reynolds, Visual Arts
- Peter Streckfus, Literature
- Dan Visconti, Musical Composition
- Catherine Wagner, Design
- Tracey E. Watts, Ancient Studies
Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to approximately thirty individuals who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Prize recipients are invited to Rome for six months to two years to immerse themselves in the Academy community where they will enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their own professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience and on the inestimable resources that Italy, Europe, and the Academy have to offer.
A more detailed description of the 2013-14 Rome Prize winners follows:
ANCIENT STUDIES
Emeline Hill Richardson Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Ryan Bailey
Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
The Acts of Saint Cyprian of Antioch
National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Sheramy D. Bundrick
Associate Professor of Art History, College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Athens, Etruria, and the Movement of Images
Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Stephanie Ann Frampton
Assistant Professor of Classical Literature, Department of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alphabetic Order: The Roman Alphabet and the Material Culture of Literature in the Ancient World
Frank Brown/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)
Jessica Nowlin
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University
Reorienting Orientalization: Local Consumption and Value Construction in Central Italy between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Sea
Paul Mellon/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
Irene San Pietro
Department of Classical Studies, Columbia University
Charity and the Creation of the Church
C. Douglas Dillon Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Tracey E. Watts
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Beyond the Pleasure Garden: Urban Agriculture in Ancient Rome
ARCHITECTURE
James R. Lamantia, Jr. Rome Prize
Thomas Kelley
Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Partner, Norman Kelley, LLC, Chicago, IL and New York, NY
Economy of Illusions: A (re)Valuation of Rome’s Visual Culture
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
Catie Newell
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Taubman College, University of Michigan
Principal, *Alibi Studio, Detroit, MI
Involving Darkness
DESIGN
Rolland Rome Prize
Nicholas de Monchaux
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley
Robustness, Resilience, Redundancy and Rome.
Abigail Cohen Rome Prize
Catherine Wagner
Artist, San Francisco, CA
Professor, Department of Art, Mills College
Re-classifying History II
HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION
Booth Family Rome Prize
Thomas Leslie
Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University
“Building Correctly:” Pier Luigi Nervi and the Synthesis of the Constructeur
National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
Thompson M. Mayes
Deputy General Counsel, Law Department, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Why This Place Matters
Mark Hampton Rome Prize
Max Page
Professor of Architecture and History, Department of Art, Architecture, and Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Usable Pasts: The Legacy of Mussolini and the Lessons of Scarpa
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Garden Club of America Rome Prize
Bradley E. Cantrell
Director and Associate Professor, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University
Synthetic and Responsive Ecologies
Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
Elizabeth Fain LaBombard
Associate, James Corner Field Operations, New York, NY
Living on the Edge: Re-thinking Landscape on the Periphery of Rome
LITERATURE
John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Peter Bognanni
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Macalester College
Gifted and Talented
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
Peter Streckfus
Assistant Professor, Department of English, George Mason University
Water and Plastic
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Lily Auchincloss Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Martin Eisner
Assistant Professor of Italian, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University
Dante and the Afterlife of the Book: The Philology of World Literature
Phyllis G. Gordan Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Maya Maskarinec
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Building Rome Saint by Saint. Sanctity from abroad at home in the city (6th-9th century).
National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Patrick Nold
Associate Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Albany
Money, Magic, and Murder: The trial and execution of a bishop at the Roman Curia in 1317
MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES
Marian and Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Lindsay Harris
Research Associate, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exposing Virtue and Vice: Photography, the 'Primitive,’ and Modernity in Italy, 1870-1936
Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one of a two-year fellowship)
Ruth W. Lo
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
Feeding Rome: Food, Architecture, and Urbanism of City Markets, 1907-1943
Rome Prizes in Modern Italian Studies are made possible in part through a grant from the US Department of Education.
MUSICAL COMPOSITION
Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize
Eric Nathan
Composer, New York, NY
Multitude, Solitude
Samuel Barber Rome Prize
Dan Visconti
Composer, Arlington, VA
Living Language
RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
Mari Yoko Hara
McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
Places of Performance: Scenography, Painting, and Architecture of Baldassarre Peruzzi
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
Ruth Noyes
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“One of those Lutherans we used to burn in campo de fiore.” Catholic convert diaspora artists figuring early modern conversion.
Millicent Mercer Johnsen Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Gabrielle Piedad Ponce
Department of German and Romance Languages and Literature, The Johns Hopkins University
Cervantes in Rome: Patrons, Poets and Literary Academies
VISUAL ARTS
Harold M. English/Jacob H. Lazarus- Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
Anna Gimon Betbeze
Artist, New York, NY
Lecturer, School of Art, Yale University
Ruins and Portals
Jules Guerin Rome Prize
Hamlett Dobbins
Artist, Memphis, TN
Director, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College
Slow Time in Rome
Jesse Howard, Jr. Rome Prize
Dan Hurlin
Artist, New York, NY
Director of the Graduate Program in Theatre, Professor of Theatre and Dance, Sarah Lawrence College
Untitled Futurist Project
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
Reynold Reynolds
Artist, Los Angeles, CA
Projected Geometry
Rome Prizes in the Visual Arts are made possible in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.