Features

In September 1974, AAR piloted a language and cultural orientation program for new Rome Prize Fellows, in partnership with the University of Siena.

The artist Rick Lowe, designer Sheila Bridges, medievalist Geraldine Heng, and classicist Patrice Rankine join nine other distinguished AAR Residents from the arts and humanities for the 2024–25 academic year.

AAR invites applications for the annual Rome Prize competition. Each year, fellowships are given to approximately thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence in their fields.

The editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome invites submissions for volume 70, to be published in autumn 2025.

This week the Academy welcomes the newest cohort of Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows to the Eternal City.

The American Academy shares an early preview of our upcoming fall programming in Rome and New York.

A PhD candidate at the University of Delaware, Gabriella L. Johnson is completing her dissertation on how people in the early modern period perceived and engaged with aquatic nature through coral, shells, and marine fossils.

A new book from Rizzoli posthumously surveys the arc of 1985 Fellow Antoine Predock’s life and career.

Shruti Swamy, our 2024 Rome Prize Fellow in Literature, is thinking expansively about motherhood and caregiving while working on her novel, Margret and Vishnu.
 

On June 4, thirteen Rome Prize and Getty Global Fellows in the humanities presented their work during the inaugural Open Stacks event. 

Joseph Farrell (2014 Resident), professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and his wife, the writer Ann de Forest, have been exploring Rome together since 1982. Here are a few of their favorite places to visit.

Kate Soper (2024 Fellow) is working on Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus, a monodrama for soprano and orchestra which she will perform with the New York Philharmonic in May 2025. 

About 1,300 people filled the McKim, Mead & White Building to experience visual, musical, and literary works created by fellows in the arts during Summer Open Studios.

Last month Fausto Ferraresi and Giorgia Lauri of the Rome Sustainable Food Project visited London community kitchen Refettorio Felix—led by two former RSFP interns.

The American Academy in Rome honored the filmmaker and screenwriter Sofia Coppola at the McKim Medal Gala on June 5, 2024. The sold-out evening raised over $900,000.

AAR Fellows and Trustees visited the ongoing excavations in Pompeii’s Region IX, where removal of the volcanic material from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE has revealed incredible finds of a type unseen at the site in decades. 

The Columbia University PhD candidate is examining the foreign communities of Rome through the Greek inscriptions they produced.

The arrival of American troops in 1944 was welcome news all over Rome, and not least of all at the Academy, which had closed its doors four years earlier due to World War Two.

Helen “Ili” Nagy (1986 Fellow, 2009 Resident) remembers Darby Scott (1966 Fellow, 1979 Resident).

AAR has successfully matched the National Endowment for the Humanities “Challenge Grant” of nearly half a million dollars toward the construction of a new Library Annex in the Villa Chiaraviglio.