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Ross Altheimer is the winner of the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture and a Landscape Architecture Studio Leader at Hammel Green and Abrahamson in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jennifer Knust is the ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow in Ancient Studies, an Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and an Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University.

Mari Yoko Hara is the Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Rome Rrize Winner in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia.

Carl D’Alvia is the Henry W. and Marian T. Mitchell Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist from West Cornwall, Connecticut.

Anthony Cheung is the Luciano Berio Rome Prize Winner in Musical Composition and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.

John Marino is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence and professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Glendalys Medina is the John Armstrong Chaloner / Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist.

The playwright John Guare is the John T. Sargent Writer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

The show featured objects from the AAR’s Norton–Van Buren Archaeology Study Collection—a collection of over six thousand objects including everything from Etruscan cinerary urns to Christian lamps, much of which has never been exhibited to the public.

The Academy has just published a personal memoir by Lawrence Richardson Jr., a 1950 Fellow, 1979 Resident, and Academy Trustee from 1969 to 1992, focusing on his years in Rome.

Thomas Hendrickson is the winner of the Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Barry Strauss is the Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, a professor of history and a professor of classics at Cornell University.

Jesse Jones is the Elliott Carter Rome Prize Winner in Musical Composition and a DMA candidate in the Department of Music at Cornell University.

Ramie Targoff is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence and Professor of English at Brandeis University.

Erik Adigard is the Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Winner in Design, the founder and designer of M-A-D, and a lecturer at the California College of the Arts.

David McCullough gave the annual Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture in Rome called “Standing the Test of Time: Reflections on the Craft of Writing.”

Since 1996, the American Academy in Rome has been proud to host the annual fall new music festival called “Nuova Consonanza” at the Villa Aurelia.

Patrick Baker is the Lily Auchincloss Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Winner in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medieval and Neo-Latin Philology at the University of Münster.

Polly Apfelbaum is the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist.

Adele Chatfield-Taylor announced today that she plans to step down from the American Academy in Rome at the end of 2013 when she will have completed twenty-five years as the Academy's president and CEO.