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Wednesday evening’s lecture by Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics at Cornell University (2013 Resident), took place in the elegant Palazzo Mattei di Giove, which is home to the Centro Studi Americani.

Beth Saunders is the winner of the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Lucy Corin is the winner of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize in Literature (a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman) and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis.

A lecture by Stephen Greenblatt, RAAR’10, took place Wednesday evening under an auspicious full moon at the Villa Aurelia.  

This year the Trip’s aim was a deeper understanding of lesser-known parts of Italy and an appreciation of how culture and heritage fit – and clash – in a modern Italy.

The most spare and conceptually elegant art show offered at the AAR in recent years was two installations by American artist Jason Dodge (in the Art Gallery) and Italian artist Martino Gamper (in the Cryptoporticus).

Randall Mason is the winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation and an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (SEB) performed the work of Rome Prize winners Anthony Cheung and Jesse Jones at the Villa Aurelia on March 8, 9, and 10.

Brenda Longfellow is the Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize winner in Ancient Studies and an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa.

Claudia Moser is the winner of the Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies and a Ph.D candidate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.

The forty-first annual Jerome Lectures were packed this year as David Mattingly, professor of Roman archaeology and history at the University of Leicester, delivered a series of paradigm-busting presentations on Roman North Africa.

Nicholas Blechman is the winner of the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design and an Art Director at The New York Times in New York City.

Peter Jonathan Bell is the winner of the Robert Lehman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

James Siena is the Mary Miss Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and an artist from New York City.

William O'Brien Jr. is the Founders Rome Prize Winner in Architecture. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT where he holds the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, and is the principal of an independent architectural design practice in Cambridge.

The public spaces of the McKim, Mead & White Building were proudly made available to art, and to the city of Rome, on the evening of Wednesday, January 30, when a series of five (actually six) installations was presented as Cinque Mostre.

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.