The American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011–12 Rome Prize. Recipients of the 115th annual Rome Prize Competition 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 2011–12 Rome Prize winners are:
Albert Paul Albano
Aaron S. Allen
Margaret Marshall Andrews
Paola Bonifazio
Bradford Albert Bouley
Benjamin David Brand
Angela Co
Lonn Combs
Beatriz del Cueto
Jennifer R. Davis
Matt Donovan
Sean Friar
Colin Gee
Elliott Green
Jiminie Ha
Albertus G. A. Horsting
Mary Reid Kelley
Sean Lally
Lei Liang
Siobhan Liddell
Craig Martin
Camille S. Mathieu
Jackie Murray
Suzanne Rivecca
David A. Rubin
Jenny Snider
Heidi Wendt
The 2011–12 winners will join Elizabeth C. Robinson and Carly Jane Steinborn, who will be in the second year of their Rome Prize Fellowships.
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 2011–12 Rome Prize winners follows:
Ancient Studies
Paul Mellon/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
MARGARET MARSHALL ANDREWS
Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania
Down in the Valley: A Topographical Study of the Subura in Rome from Caesar through Charlemagne
Frank Brown Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
ALBERTUS G. A. HORSTING
Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Prosper of Aquitaine’s Poetical Synthesis of Augustinian Theology: A Critical Edition of the ‘Liber Epigrammatum’
Andrew Heiskell/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
JACKIE MURRAY
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Skidmore College
Apollonius’ Argonautica: Anchored in Time
Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
ELIZABETH C. ROBINSON
Department of Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Larinum: A Case Study for the Romanization of Southern Italy
Emeline Hill Richardson Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
HEIDI WENDT
Departments of Religious Studies and Classics, Brown University
Emporium Deorum: Entrepreneurial Religion in the Early Roman Empire
Architecture
Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize
ANGELA CO
Principal, Studio Co
Instructor, University of Kentucky College of Design
Cataloging and Prototyping Baroque Effects
Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize
LONN COMBS
Principal, EASTON + COMBS, New York
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
New Vectors of Liquid Stone: Speculations on the Material Innovations of Pier Luigi Nervi and the Roman Tradition
Design
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
COLIN GEE
Theater Artist, Brooklyn, New York
“Frontier,” production design
Rolland Rome Prize
JIMINIE HA
Creative Director/Founder, W/ —— Project Space
New York
The Design of Constraints
Historic Preservation and Conservation
Booth Family Rome Prize
ALBERT PAUL ALBANO
Executive Director, Intermuseum Conservation Association, Cleveland, Ohio
The Holy Grail of the Old Master Glow and the Myth of Patina
National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
BEATRIZ DEL CUETO, FAIA
Principal, Pantel, del Cueto & Associates, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Conservation Methodology for Historic Buildings in the Spanish Caribbean
Landscape Architecture
Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
SEAN LALLY
Founder, WEATHERS – Sean Lally, LLC, Chicago, IL
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Chicago
Gradient Nolli
Garden Club of America Rome Prize
DAVID A. RUBIN
Partner, OLIN, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Repurposing the Ruined (Mined) Landscape
Literature
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
MATT DONOVAN
Chair, Department of Creative Writing and Literature, Santa Fe University of Art and Design
Every Last Thing
John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
SUZANNE RIVECCA
Writer, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
The Habitants: A Novel of Walt Whitman in New Orleans
Medieval Studies
Lily Auchincloss Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
BENJAMIN DAVID BRAND
Assistant Professor, Department of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, University of North Texas
The Historiae Sanctorum of Medieval Rome
Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
JENNIFER R. DAVIS
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Catholic University of America
Charlemagne’s Practice of Empire
Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
CARLY JANE STEINBORN
Department of Art History, Rutgers University
Transforming Sacred Space: Image and Materiality in the Orthodox Baptistery of Ravenna
Modern Italian Studies
Paul Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
AARON S. ALLEN
Assistant Professor of Musicology, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Fidelio in Italy: Reception, Historiography, and the Crisis of Nineteenth-Century Opera
National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
PAOLA BONIFAZIO
Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin
The Documentary Scandal: Publicizing Modernization in Democratic Italy, 1948–1958
Donald and Maria Cox/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
(year one of a two-year fellowship)
CAMILLE S. MATHIEU
Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Revolutionizing the Antique: French Artists and Artistic Community in Napoleonic Rome, 1803–1819
Musical Composition
Samuel Barber Rome Prize
SEAN FRIAR
Harold W. Dodds Honorific Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University
Expanding Clunker Concerto: A Junk Car Percussion Quartet Concerto
Elliott Carter Rome Prize
LEI LIANG
Associate Professor of Music, University of California, San Diego
Sextet and Chamber Concerto
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
BRADFORD ALBERT BOULEY
Department of History, Stanford University
Dissecting the Holy: Saintly Anatomy in Early Modern Italy
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize
CRAIG MARTIN
Associate Professor, Department of History, Oakland University
Renaissance Italian Thought and the Religious Rejection of Aristotle
Visual Arts
Jules Guerin Rome Prize
ELLIOTT GREEN
Artist, Athens, NY
Time Portrayed in Painting
Vera G. List/Edith Bloom Rome Prize
SIOBHAN LIDDELL
Instructor, Sculpture Department, Yale University
Diary of Light
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
MARY REID KELLEY
Artist, Saratoga Springs, New York
Literary Aspiration, Romantic Respiration
Harold M. English/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
JENNY SNIDER
Artist, New York
Montage of Attractions: Rome
Rome Prizes in the Visual Arts are made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
To download the brochure from the Rome Prize Ceremony held in New York on 13 April, click here.