Advisors

Color photograph of a olive skinned woman in a bright red coat talking to a woman whose back is to the camera
Annalisa Metta, a 2017 Italian Fellow, is an AAR Advisor in landscape architecture (photograph by Daniele Molajoli)

Each year a select group of artists, scholars, writers, and professionals serve the American Academy in Rome as Advisors in eleven disciplines.

List as of October 23, 2024.

Ancient Studies

Andrea Cucchiarelli
Ancient studies

Elizabeth Fentress
Roman archaeology, landscape archaeology

Silvia Orlandi
Latin epigraphy

Simonetta Serra
Roman topography, early Christian and late antique archaeology

Architecture

Cinzia Abbate
Architecture

Simone Capra
Architecture

Maria Claudia Clemente
Architecture

Andrea Conte
Architecture

Jacopo Costanzo
Architecture

Anna Livia Friel
Architecture

Benjamin Gallegos Gabilondo
Architecture

Luca Galofaro
Architecture

Marco Provinciali
Architecture

Antonino Saggio
Architecture

Carlo Vigevano
Architecture

Design

Alessandro Dandini de Sylva
Photography curator and book designer

Alessio de’Navasques
Curator

Ilaria Gianni
Curator and writer

Lorenzo Gigotti
Design

Stella Jean
Fashion designer

Clara Tosi Pamphili
Fashion curator

Andrea Viliani
Curator

Historic Preservation & Conservation

Maria Rosaria Basileo
Restoration

Laura Cibrario
Historic preservation

Alison Heritage
Conservation

Yvonne Mazurek
Preservation theory

Landscape Architecture

Fabio Attorre
Landscape architecture, global biodiversity

Alberta Campitelli
Italian villas and gardens

Nathalie Grenon-Sartogo
Landscape architecture

Annalisa Metta (2017 Italian Fellow)
Landscape architecture

Literature

Chiara Barzini
Writer

Isabella D’Amico
Founder of literary agency

Claudia Durastanti (2015 Italian Fellow)
Writer and translator

Maria Ida Gaeta
Literary curator

Jahan Khajavi
Poet

Jhumpa Lahiri (2013 Resident)
Writer

Francesca Marciano
Writer

Raffaella Silvestri
Writer

Virginia Virilli (2019 Italian Fellow)
Novelist, screenwriter

Medieval Studies

Fabrizio Conti
Medieval studies

Cristiana Filippini
Medieval art history

Dario Internullo
Medieval studies

Lila Yawn (1998 Fellow)
Medieval art history and history

Modern Italian Studies

Carmen Belmonte (2019 Italian Fellow)
Italian art history

Lorenzo Benadusi
Modern Italian history

Dario Biocca
Modern Italian history

Mauro Canali
History, twentieth-century Italian and American history

Giovanna Capitelli
Art history

Maddalena Carli
Contemporary history

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Art history

Ester Coen
Modern art historian

Barbara Drudi
Art history, postwar Italian and American art

Davide Lacagnina
Modern Italian art historian

Musical Composition

Francesco Antonioni
Composer and event organizer

Tonino Battista
Composer and conductor

Alvin Curran
Composer

Emanuele de Raymondi
Composer and musician

Timothy Martin
Singer and actor

Vittorio Montalti (2014 Italian Fellow)
Composer

Lucia Ronchetti
Composer

Marco Sinopoli
Composer and musician

Giulia Tagliavia
Composer

Stewart Wallace
Composer

Renaissance & Early Modern Studies

Jeffrey Blanchard (1979 Fellow)
Renaissance and Baroque architecture

Patrizia Cavazzini
Italian early modern and Baroque art and art markets

Ingrid Rowland (1982 Fellow, 2000 Resident)
Early modern and Renaissance history, literature, and art history

Gaetano Sabatini
Early modern

Guendalina Serafinelli
Early modern art history and collecting

Ramie Targoff (2013 Resident)
Medieval history

Visual Arts

Mistura Allison
Curator

Wendy Artin
Visual artist

Giuliana Benassi
Curator

Ilaria Conti
Curator

Marco Delogu
Photographer, curator

Theo Eshethu
Artist and filmmaker

Emily Jacir (2016 Fellow)
Visual artist

Damiana Leoni
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome

Ilaria Leoni
Gallerist

Pepi Marchetti Franchi
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome

Dani Martiri
Curator

Costanza Mazzonis di Pralafera
Contemporary art consultant and manager for Arte Fiera - Bologna

Peter Benson Miller
Curator and scholar, Italian modern art

Liana Miuccio
Photographer and filmmaker

Jebila Okongwu
Artist

Lorcan O’Neill
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome

Justin Randolph Thompson
Visual artist

Shara Wasserman
Curator