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Affiliated Fellowships

The Academy is host to recipients of other fellowships and awards. These include:

Click here for a list of 2007-2008 Affiliated Fellows (PDF).


ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
Thanks to the generous assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the availability of a small number of new Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars engaged in long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, geography, history, languages and literatures, law, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political philosophy). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group.

Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of residence at any one of nine national residential research centers, including the American Academy in Rome. Such an environment, beyond providing free time, encourages exchanges across disciplinary lines that can be especially helpful to deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ACLS will award approximately 9 Burkhardt Fellowships per year in this and the next two years to recently tenured humanists at institutions in the US and Canada; each fellowship carries a stipend of $65,000. For further information, please visit the ACLS website.

Burnham Prize of the Chicago Architectural Club
Three-month residencies at the Academy are granted by the Chicago Architectural Club for architects practicing within a 90-mile radius of Chicago. For additional information, write to Alan Armbrust, c/o I-Space, 230 West Superior, Chicago, IL 60611.

Dinkeloo Fellowship of the Van Alen Institute
This fellowship is open to U.S. citizens who are recent or prospective graduates of U.S. architecture and related degree programs. Dinkeloo Fellows, through their two-month stay at the American Academy and related travel, have the opportunity to research how architectural design in concert with technology can expand the concept and reality of the public realm. For application guidelines and further information, contact the Van Alen Institute, 30 West 22 Street, New York, NY 10010 or via phone at (212) 924-7000 or via e-mail at vanalen@vanalen.org.

Italian Fulbright Awards
The Fulbright Commission has eliminated the awards that brought many outstanding Italian artists and scholars to the American Academy from 1951 to 2004.

Samuel H. Kress Traveling Fellowship (Jerusalem and Amman, Athens, Nicosia, or Rome)
The award consists of $18,500 for a five month residency at the Albright in Jerusalem, with the remainder of the award to be spent at one of the following schools:  the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman (five months), the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia (five months), the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (five months), or the American Academy in Rome (minimum six weeks).  Room and half-board at the Albright is $4,050; the remainder ($14,450) is the stipend which is intended to cover room and any board expenses at any one of the other four institutions as well as travel and incidental expenses.  A doctoral dissertation research fellowship for students specializing in architecture, art history, archaeology and classical studies. Applicants must demonstrate the necessity of being resident at the Albright and at one of the other four institutions mentioned above in order to complete their research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or students studying at U.S. universities. Please visit www.aiar.org for more information.

Berthe M. Marti Fellowship in Latin
The Berthe M. Marti Fellowship, established by Berthe M. Marti, FAAR'45, provides a stipend for nine months of study in Rome. The first six weeks are spent at the American Academy, the rest of the year in housing of the Fellow's own choosing. The stipend also provides research and travel funding. Applicants must be advanced graduate students in Latin at Bryn Mawr College or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, or persons who have received their Ph.D. from one of those institutions no more than three years before applying for the award. The award is open to candidates in one or more of the following areas of study: early, classical, or medieval Latin; Latin palaeography; the transmission of Latin texts; the establishment of texts of Latin authors. Potential candidates should consult with the Chair or DGS of their graduate department.

Mellon East-Central European Research Fellowships
The American Academy in Rome is pleased to offer awards to East-Central European scholars through a program in cooperation with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Established in 1993, this program now serves Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Slovak scholars who have already obtained the Ph.D. at the time of application, or have equivalent experience, and who wish to undertake a specific research project in Rome.

As many as three East-Central European scholars will be selected through a juried, open competition for three-month residencies at the American Academy in Rome. Awards are offered in the following fields:

  • Ancient Studies (through the 6th century)
  • Medieval Studies (6th through the 14th centuries)
  • Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (14th through the 18th centuries)
  • Modern Italian Studies (18th century to the present)

Program Summary
Program Guidelines
Program Application

For additional information, please write to the Academy's Director at the American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Rome, Italy.

Cynthia Hazen Polzky/Metropolitan Visiting Curator Award
Through a multi-year initiative, a Metropolitan Museum curator, who is recommended by the Director of the Museum as well as the Director of the Academy, becomes part of the Academy community for a period of 6-8 weeks. Applications are not accepted.

The Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellowship
This fellowship, awarded by the Provost of Columbia University, was established by the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome and Friends of Columbia University in honor of Mr. Sovern's chairmanship of the Academy board from 1993 to 2005. It enables a member of the Columbia community to be in residence at the Academy for a period of four to six weeks.

Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship
The Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship is awarded by the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens to encourage the study of the Greco-Roman world as a whole. For more information, see the Announcement for the Oscar Broneer Travelling Fellowship 2008-2009 or visit the website directly at www.ascsa.edu.gr.

Raiziss/de Palchi Traveling Fellowship of
The Academy of American Poets
This fellowship is awarded bi-annually to a U.S. citizen for the translation of modern Italian poetry into English. Recipients reside at the American Academy in Rome for six weeks during those years when the prize is awarded. For additional information, please contact The Academy of American Poets, 584 Broadway, Suite 1208, New York, NY 10012-3250 or call (212) 274-0343.

Multi-Country Research Fellowship of the Council of
American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
The program is open to US doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D in the fields of humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. CAORC member centers include the American Academy in Rome. It is anticipated that approximately ten fellowships of up to $9,000 each will be awarded. Once a CAORC fellowship has been awarded, the fellow must honor the 2 week minimum stay in Rome. Please consult the Visiting Artists & Scholars page for more information regarding minimum stay requirements. Contact the Council at www.caorc.org or fellowships@caorc.org for application forms and information. Deadline for Fellowships: Friday, January 13, 2006.

The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Regional Research Program
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
NHB - CE-123, MRC 178
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Email: fellowships@caorc.org
CAORC website www.caorc.org

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & The American Academy in Rome
In order to promote cooperation in the field of academic research, the American Academy in Rome and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa exchange annually one scholar per institution.  The program of exchange is for one student for 9,5 months, or two students for successive semesters to a total of 9,5 months.  Scholars eligible for the exchange are normally doctoral candidates in the humanities from the two institutions.  AAR pre-doctoral fellows may apply during the year in which they hold the Rome Prize or during any of the three following years, even if they have completed the Ph.D by then. 

Exchange scholars have free access to all courses, lectures, seminars and to the libraries of the host institution.  As to the fulfillment of their academic duties, they respond only to their home institution.  The scholar originating from the AAR has also access to the relevant courses held at the University of Pisa, pending acceptance by the individual teachers.  The SNS offers board and lodging or provides a stipend sufficient to cover these costs to the AAR scholar. The AAR offers board and lodging to the SNS scholar.  In addition, the AAR provides its own scholar with a stipend.  Given the residential nature of the two institutions, scholars selected for the exchange are expected to remain in residence with only occasional, brief absences.
Click here for the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & American Academy in Rome application form.

 

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