The American Academy in Rome congratulates the winners of the 118th annual Rome Prize Competition.

The winners were announced at the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, held at the Harmonie Club in New York City on April 10.

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. Rome Prize recipients are provided with a fellowship, which includes a stipend and live/working space, and are invited to live in Rome for six months to two years to immerse themselves in the Academy community. They will enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their own professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, by drawing on their colleagues' knowledge and experience, as well as the inestimable resources that Italy, Europe, and the Academy have to offer.

Recipients of the 2014–15 Rome Prize (by discipline) are:

Ancient Studies

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

Ivan Cangemi

Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Mobility and Society in Early Iron Age Central Italy

Paul Mellon/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)

Nathan S. Dennis

Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University

Performing Paradise in the Early Christian Baptistery: Art, Liturgy, and the Transformation of Vision

Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

Sarah Levin-Richardson

Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Washington

Beyond Sex: Society and Identity in Pompeii’s Purpose-Built Brothel

Frank Brown/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year two of a two-year fellowship)

Jessica Nowlin

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University

Reorienting Orientalization: Local Consumption and Value Construction in Central Italy between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Sea

Emeline Hill Richardson Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

Sailakshmi Ramgopal

Department of Classics, University of Chicago

Romans Abroad: Associations of Roman Citizens from the Second Century BCE to the Third Century CE

National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

Heather L. Reid

Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Morningside College

Philostratus’ Gymnasticus: The Rehabilitation of Greek Athletics as Moral Education in Rome

Architecture

Founders Rome Prize

Firat Erdim

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program in Architecture, IE University

Peregrine Projections

James R. Lamantia Jr. Rome Prize

Vincent L. Snyder

Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin; and Principal, Vincent Snyder Architects

Antecedent Armatures and False-Work

Design

Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize

Rob Giampietro

Principal, Project Projects, New York

Walk with Me: Responsive Guides to Rome

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize

Carin Goldberg

Principal, Carin Goldberg Design, New York; and Adjunct Professor, School of Visual Arts

Conquering Rome: The Curation of Acceptance

Historic Preservation and Conservation

National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize

John V. Maciuika

Associate Professor, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, City University of New York, Baruch College, and CUNY Graduate Center PhD Program in Art History

The Eternal Palace: Transformations and Reconstructions of the Berlin “Stadtschloss,” 1450–2020

Booth Family Rome Prize

Anna Serotta

Assistant Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Documentation, Analysis and Replication of Tool Marks on Ancient Stone Sculpture

Landscape Architecture

Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize

Kim Karlsrud and Daniel Phillips

Co-Founders and Principals, Commonstudio, Los Angeles

Corsophilia: Uncovering the Biodiversity of the Roman Streetscape

Garden Club of America Rome Prize

Adam Kuby

Environmental Artist/Sculptor/Designer, Portland, Oregon

Urban Ecologies/Temporal Investigations

Literature

John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman

Krys Lee

Fiction Writer, Seoul, South Korea; and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, Underwood International College, Yonsei University

Unnamed Novel

Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters

Liz Moore

Assistant Professor of Writing, School of Arts and Sciences, Holy Family University

Untitled Novel in Progress

Medieval Studies

National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

Marilynn Desmond

University Distinguished Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New Yotk

The Fall of Troy and the Origins of Europe: Homer and the Medieval West

Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

David Anthony Morris

Department of History, University of Notre Dame

Apocalypse Now or Later: The Super Prophetas of Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore

Modern Italian Studies

Marian and Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

Denise Rae Costanzo

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University

Eternal City, New Lessons: Architects at Modern Academies in Postwar Rome

Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year two of a two-year fellowship)

Ruth W. Lo

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University

Feeding Rome: Food, Architecture, and Urbanism of City Markets, 1907–1943

Millicent Mercer Johnsen Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

Joseph John Viscomi

Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan

Fuori Tempo/Out of Time: The End of the Italian Communities in Egypt (1937–1967)

Rome Prizes in modern Italian studies are made possible in part through a grant from the US Department of Education.

Musical Composition

Luciano Berio Rome Prize

Andy Akiho

PhD Candidate in Music Composition, Princeton University; and Composer, New York

New Works for Orchestra

Elliott Carter Rome Prize

Paula Matthusen

Assistant Professor of Music, Wesleyan University

Modern Soundscapes, Ancient Structures: Sonic Pathways Between the Ancient Aqueducts and Contemporary Rome

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)

Michelle DiMarzo

Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Titian and the Culture of Midcentury Rome: The Venetian among the Ruins

Lily Auchincloss Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

Margaret Gaida

Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma

From Aleppo to Rome: Astrology as a Mirror of Cross-Cultural Transformation, 950–1521

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize

Stefania Tutino

Professor and Associate Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, Departments of History and Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Probabilism in Early Modern Europe: Moral Theology, Epistemology, and Politics

Visual Arts

Chuck Close Rome Prize

Corin Hewitt

Artist; and Assistant Professor, Sculpture and Extended Media, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University

Compressed Interiors

Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize

Cynthia Madansky

Artist, New York

E42

Gorham P. Stevens/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize

Dave McKenzie

Artist, Brooklyn

Yuh was a Spen Time a Mocho (pronounced muk-coh)

Gilmore D. Clarke/Michael Rapuano Rome Prize

Abinadi Meza

Artist and filmmaker, Houston; and Assistant Professor, School of Art, University of Houston

Memory Palace: An Eternal City, an Infinite Film

Rome Prizes in the Visual Arts are made possible in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.