The 2024-25 winners of the highly prestigious Rome Prize were announced today by the American Academy in Rome. The Rome Prize is awarded annually to American artists and scholars for research and work in the arts and humanities.
This year’s winners will be officially recognized during the Janet & Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony and Concert, taking place tonight at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
There are 31 recipients of the Rome Prize this year. Each one will receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus on the Janiculum Hill in Rome, starting in September 2024. The stipend is $16,000 for a half-term (five months) and $30,000 for a full-term period of work in residence (10 months).
The Rome Prize is awarded in eleven disciplines: ancient studies, architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, medieval studies, modern Italian studies, music composition, Renaissance and early modern studies, and visual arts.
This year’s awardees were selected from a record-high 1,106 applications from applicants in 46 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico.
“The Rome Prize is one of the most storied fellowship programs in the United States,” said AAR President Peter N. Miller, in a news release. “Over a thousand people compete for the chance to live and work in Rome, inspired by the city and one another. The Rome Prize winners represent a bridge between the United States and Italy, but also between a present of potential and a future of achievement.”
This year’s recipients in each category are:
Brigitte A. Keslinke, University of Pennsylvania; Emily C. Mitchell, Harvard University; Vassiliki Panoussi, College of William and Mary; Crystal Rosenthal, University of Texas at Austin; Dennis E. Trout, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Michelle JaJa Chang, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; David Costanza, Cornell University.
Amy Revier, Austin, Texas.
Katherine L. Beaty, Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard Library; Krupali Krusche, University of Notre Dame.
Anthony Acciavatti, Yale University; Megumi Aihara and Dan Spiegel, The Spiegel Aihara Workshop, San Francisco; University of California, Berkeley (Spiegel).
Selby Wynn Schwart, San Francisco; Jacob Shores-Argüello, Baylor University.
Claire Dillon, Columbia University; Craig Perry, Emory University.
Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina; Lucas R. Ramos, Columbia University; Giancarlo Tursi, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jonah Nuoja Luo Haven, Harvard University; Jen Shyu, Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³), Brooklyn.
Julia Rose Katz, Rutgers University; Shannah Rose, New York University: Jenny Lin, University of Southern California, is the winner of the Tsao Family Rome Prize.
Lex Brown, Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University; Matthew Connors, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Devon Dikeou, Curator and Cofounder of the Dikeou Collection; Nona Faustine, Brooklyn; Richard Mosse, New York; Sheila Pepe, Brooklyn.
In addition to the 31 Rome Prize winners, the Academy awarded three Italian Fellowships for Italian artists and scholars to live and work in the Academy with their American counterparts. Those winners are architect Giuseppe Grant, composer Daria Scia and postdoctoral researcher Eugenio Villa.
In addition, Kimmah M. Dennis of the Art Institute of Chicago was named the recipient of the Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellowship for a Chicago-Based Visual Artist.
Founded in 1894 under the leadership of American architect Charles F. McKim, the American Academy in Rome was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1905. In addition to McKim, other early supporters included Harvard College, The Carnegie Foundation, J.P. Morgan, The Rockefeller Foundation, and William K. Vanderbilt. The academy is supported today by private donations from individuals and foundations and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Since its founding the American Academy of Rome has served as a center for research and creativity, allowing its residents to immerse themselves in the experience of Rome and be enriched by fellow members. Residents and fellows of the Academy have received 622 Guggenheim Fellowships, 74 Pulitzer Prizes, 53 MacArthur Fellowships, 26 Grammy awards, 5 Pritzker Prizes, 9 Poet Laureate appointments, and 5 Nobel Prizes.