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The forty-first annual Jerome Lectures were packed this year as David Mattingly, professor of Roman archaeology and history at the University of Leicester, delivered a series of paradigm-busting presentations on Roman North Africa.

Nicholas Blechman is the winner of the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design and an Art Director at The New York Times in New York City.

Peter Jonathan Bell is the winner of the Robert Lehman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

James Siena is the Mary Miss Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and an artist from New York City.

William O'Brien Jr. is the Founders Rome Prize Winner in Architecture. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT where he holds the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, and is the principal of an independent architectural design practice in Cambridge.

The public spaces of the McKim, Mead & White Building were proudly made available to art, and to the city of Rome, on the evening of Wednesday, January 30, when a series of five (actually six) installations was presented as Cinque Mostre.

Ross Altheimer is the winner of the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture and a Landscape Architecture Studio Leader at Hammel Green and Abrahamson in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jennifer Knust is the ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow in Ancient Studies, an Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and an Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University.

Mari Yoko Hara is the Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Rome Rrize Winner in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia.

Carl D’Alvia is the Henry W. and Marian T. Mitchell Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist from West Cornwall, Connecticut.

Anthony Cheung is the Luciano Berio Rome Prize Winner in Musical Composition and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.

John Marino is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence and professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Glendalys Medina is the John Armstrong Chaloner / Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist.

The playwright John Guare is the John T. Sargent Writer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

The show featured objects from the AAR’s Norton–Van Buren Archaeology Study Collection—a collection of over six thousand objects including everything from Etruscan cinerary urns to Christian lamps, much of which has never been exhibited to the public.

The Academy has just published a personal memoir by Lawrence Richardson Jr., a 1950 Fellow, 1979 Resident, and Academy Trustee from 1969 to 1992, focusing on his years in Rome.

Thomas Hendrickson is the winner of the Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Barry Strauss is the Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, a professor of history and a professor of classics at Cornell University.

Jesse Jones is the Elliott Carter Rome Prize Winner in Musical Composition and a DMA candidate in the Department of Music at Cornell University.

Ramie Targoff is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence and Professor of English at Brandeis University.