The American Academy in Rome will showcase the work of its Rome Prize Fellows in the humanities with the second annual Open Stacks: Scholars’ Presentations. The event will feature a variety of short talks highlighting the research that the Fellows have undertaken during the year, providing insights into their evidence, research questions, and methodologies. Themes uniting the work they present here are environmental contexts, minority communities, and the recontextualization of the past.

The event will be held in English. 

Locating and Translating Religion

Vassiliki Panoussi, “Searching for the Egyptian Goddess Isis in the City of Rome”

Brigitte A. Keslinke, “What Was on the Menu in Mithras-Worship?” 

Shannah Rose, “Reframing Mesoamerican Deities in Early Modern Rome: Lorenzo Pignoria and the Remediation of Indigenous Religion”

Claire Dillon, “Between Cross and Crescent: Neo-Medieval Architecture in Italian Africa”

Institutions and Individuals

Carol E. Harrison, “Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein and the Index of Prohibited Books”

Lucas R. Ramos, “Social Care as Social Control: Homosexuality and Psychiatry in Cold War Palermo”

Craig Perry, “The Death of a Merchant and the History of Medieval Africa”

Emily C. Mitchell, “Exemplary Epitaphs: Status, Rhetoric, and Power on the Tombstones of Lucius Castricius and Tinuleia Musa”

Putting Together Pieces

Julia Rose Katz, “Baroque Montage: Sequencing Spolia in Early Modern Rome”

Crystal Rosenthal, “Questioning the Quadrifrons: Harbor Arches in an Expanded Field” 

Giancarlo Tursi, “Dialectal Dante: Translations, Fragments, Drawings” 

Jenny Lin, “Silk Threads, Unbroken: Passages Across the Global Art/Fashion System”