Overview
Each year a select group of artists, scholars, writers, and professionals serve the American Academy in Rome as Advisors in eleven disciplines.
2023–24
Ancient Studies
Elizabeth Fentress
Roman archaeology, landscape archaeology
Silvia Orlandi
Latin epigraphy
Simonetta Serra
Roman topography, early Christian and late antique archaeology
Architecture
Cinzia Abbate
Architecture
Jacopo Costanzo
Architecture
Luca Galofaro
Architecture
Antonino Saggio
Architecture
Carlo Vigevano
Architecture
Design
Alessandro Dandini de Sylva
Photo curator and book designer
Ilaria Gianni
Curator and writer
Lorenzo Gigotti
Design
Clara Tosi Pamphili
Fashion curator
Andrea Viliani
Curator
Historic Preservation and Conservation
Laura Cibrario
Historic preservation
Alison Heritage
Conservation
Yvonne Mazurek
Preservation theory
Landscape Architecture
Fabio Attorre
Landscape architecture, global biodiversity
Alberta Campitelli
Italian villas and gardens
Simone Capra
Landscape architecture
Nathalie Grenon-Sartogo
Landscape architecture
Annalisa Metta (2017 Italian Fellow)
Landscape architecture
Literature
Chiara Barzini
Writer
Isabella D’Amico
Founder of literary agency
Maria Ida Gaeta
Literary curator
Jhumpa Lahiri (2013 Resident)
Writer
Francesca Marciano
Writer
Virginia Virilli (2019 Italian Fellow)
Novelist, screenwriter
Medieval Studies
Carrie Beneš (2009 Fellow)
Historian in late medieval Italy
Fabrizio Conti
Medieval studies
Cristiana Filippini
Medieval art history
Ramie Targoff
Medieval history
Lila Yawn (1998 Fellow)
Medieval art history and history
Modern Italian Studies
Carmen Belmonte (2019 Italian Fellow)
Italian art history
Lorenzo Benadusi
Modern Italian history
Dario Biocca
Modern Italian history
Mauro Canali
History, twentieth-century Italian and American history
Giovanna Capitelli
Art history
Maddalena Carli
Contemporary history
Ester Coen
Modern art historian
Barbara Drudi
Art history, postwar Italian and American art
Davide Lacagnina
Modern Italian art historian
Musical Composition
Francesco Antonioni
Composer and event organizer
Tonino Battista
Composer and conductor
Alvin Curran
Composer
Timothy Martin
Singer and actor
Vittorio Montalti (2014 Italian Fellow)
Composer
Marco Sinopoli
Composer and musician
Giulia Tagliavia
Composer
Stewart Wallace
Composer
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Jeffrey Blanchard (1979 Fellow)
Renaissance and Baroque architecture
Patrizia Cavazzini
Italian early modern and Baroque art and art markets
Ingrid Rowland (1982 Fellow, 2000 Resident)
Early modern and Renaissance history, literature, and art history
Guendalina Serafinelli
Early modern art history and collecting
Visual Arts
Johanne Affricot
Curator
Mistura Allison
Curator
Wendy Artin
Visual artist
Giuliana Benassi
Curator
Ilaria Conti
Curator
Marco Delogu
Photographer, curator
Denise Di Castro
Art gallerist
Theo Esethu
Artist and filmmaker
Emily Jacir (2015 Fellow)
Visual artist
Damiana Leoni
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome
Ilaria Leoni
Gallerist
Pepi Marchetti Franchi
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome
Costanza Mazzonis di Pralafera
Contemporary art consultant and manager for Arte Fiera - Bologna
Peter Benson Miller
Curator and scholar, Italian modern art
Liana Miuccio
Photographer and filmmaker
Jebila Okongwu
Artist
Lorcan O’Neill
Contemporary international art and art galleries in Rome
Justin Randolph Thompson
Visual artist
Shara Wasserman
Curator
As of September 26, 2023.