Dream the Combine, MOS Architects among 202223 Rome Prize winners – The Architect’s Newspaper

A fresh cohort of 38 American creatives have been bestowed with the gift of time and space to think and work and will be headed to the Eternal City this September as recipients of the American Academy in Rome (AAR)s 20222023 Rome Prize.

Awarded annually to fellows working across a range of 11 different disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, design, and historic preservation and conservation, the Rome Prize that includes a stipend, workspace, and room-and-board at the Academys historic 11-acre campus on the Gianicolo. The Academy, a prestigious research and arts institutiondomestically headquartered in New York City, was first established in 1894 under the leadership of architect Charles McKim of McKim, Mead & White.

RomePrizewinners are selected by independent juries of distinguished artists and scholars through a national competition.

Among the just-announced 20222023 fellows are Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, founding principals of Minneapolis- and Ithaca, New Yorkbased creative practice Dream The Combine (Newsom and Carruthers are also on the curatorial team of the 2023 Counterpublic Triennial in St. Louis); Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, principals and founders of New York City-based MOS Architects; Monica Rhodes, Loeb Fellow at Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Design; Los Angeles-based landscape designer and accessibility specialist Alexa Vaughn; Katherine Jenkins and Parker Sutton, co-funding principals of Columbus, Ohiobased landscape architecture studio Present Practice; and Preeti Chopra, a professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, whose research is focused on South Asian architecture and urbanism.

In addition to the 20222023 Rome Prizes, the Academy has also announced the four recipients of the Italian Fellows, a complementary program in which Italian scholars and artists are invited to live and work at the Academy alongside their American counterparts. As detailed by the Academy, this cycle of the Rome Prize competition received 909 applications, with applicants representing 47 states. Like last year, this cycle marks one of the most diverse groups of fellows in the Prizes history, with approximately 46 percent of the winners identifying as people of color. (In 20212022, the figure was 44 percent). Twenty-four percent of the Rome Prize winners were born outside the United States, and the average age of the incoming cohort is 43.

This yearsRomePrizewinners and Italian Fellows represents the diversity of the United States, and their projects build on the Academys commitment to the global impact of the arts and humanities,said Mark Robbins, president and CEO of the AAR in a statement. These fellowships are transformative, and we look forward to seeing the ways this experience is translated in the work to come.

Below is the full list of Rome Prize winners organized by discipline along with the 20222023 Italian Fellows. Following that is a list of jurors for each respective discipline. An in-person prize ceremony, the annual Arthur and Janet C. RossRomePrizeCeremony, was held yesterday the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City.

Now, without further adohere are this years class of Rome Prize fellows and Italian Fellows:

Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize:Sarah BeckmannAssistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of California, Los AngelesThe Villa in Late Antiquity: Roman Ideals and Local Identities

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize:Emily L. HurtPhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale UniversityPalimpsest Cities of the Roman Empire

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize:Evan JewellAssistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University, CamdenYouth and Power: Acting Your Age in the Roman Empire (149 BCE68 CE)

Arthur Ross Rome Prize:Andrew R. LundPhD Candidate, Department of Classics, University of CincinnatiSeneca Comicus: Comic Enrichment and the Reception of the seruus callidus in Senecan Tragedy

Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Emeline Hill Richardson Rome Prize:Lillian Clare SellatiPhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale UniversityWhen Is Herakles Not Himself? Intentional Iconographic Slippage in Greater Central Asia, 330 BCE to 230 CE

Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize:Michael Meredith and Hilary SamplePrincipals and Founders, MOS Architects, New YorkCorviale: One-Kilometer-Long Social Housing

Rome Prize in Architecture:Jennifer Newsom and Tom CarruthersFounding Principals, Dream The Combine, Minneapolis; Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of the Practice, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell UniversityWandering Stars, Vanishing Points: Overwriting Spatial Imaginaries of Rome

Rolland Rome Prize:John DavisPianist, BrooklynKeys to the Highway: Nineteenth-Century African American Pianists on the Road to Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Rock n Roll

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize:Jasmine Hearn and Athena KokoronisDesigners, BrooklynAn introduction TOWARDS A REPERTORY CLOSET

Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize:Preeti ChopraProfessor, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin, MadisonHistoric Preservation, British Monuments, and the Legacy of Ancient Rome in Modern India

Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize:Monica RhodesLoeb Fellow, Graduate School of Design, Harvard UniversityPreservation and Public Engagement

Gilmore D. Clark and Michael I. Rapuano/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize:Katherine Jenkins and Parker SuttonPrincipals, Present Practice, Columbus, Ohio; and Assistant Professors of Landscape Architecture, Knowlton School, Ohio State UniversityRoman Aesthetics of Care

Garden Club of America/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize:Alexa Vaughn, ASLALandscape Designer and Accessibility Specialist, Los AngelesSorda Nella Citt Eterna | Deaf in the Eternal City: Deaf and Disabled Storytelling and Creative Investigations in the Aesthetic Intersections of Accessibility and Historic Preservation in Roman Landscapes

John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman:Gina ApostolTeacher, Department of English, Ethical Culture Fieldston SchoolThe Treatment of Paz (novel)

Rome Prize in Literature:Jamel BrinkleyAssistant Professor, Fiction, Program in Creative Writing, Iowa Writers Workshop, University of IowaAnother Life: A Novel

Rome Prize in Literature:Tung-Hui HuAssociate Professor, Department of English, University of MichiganPunishment, an Index

Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust:Robyn SchiffProfessor, Department of English, Emory UniversityInformation Desk: An Epic

Donald and Maria Cox/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize:Lamia BalafrejAssociate Professor, Department of Art History, University of California, Los AngelesCorporeal Instruments: Art, Technology, and Slavery in the Medieval Mediterranean

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Rome Prize:Denva E. GallantAssistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of DelawareIllustrating the Vitae Patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize:Carolyn J. QuijanoPhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia UniversityForeign Magistracies and Accountability in the Medieval Italian Communes, c. 12001400

Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize:Saskia K. VerlaanPhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBetween Drawing and Script: Asemic Writing by Feminist Artists in Italy 19681980

Millicent Mercer Johnsen/National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize:Konstantina ZanouAssistant Professor, Department of Italian, Columbia UniversitySoldiers of Fortune: Two Brothers and the Adventures of Antiquities from the Ottoman Mediterranean to Gilded Age New York

Luciano Berio Rome Prize:Miya MasaokaAssociate Professor and Director, Sound Art, School of the Arts, Columbia UniversityThe Horizon Leans Forward for the International Contemporary Ensemble

Elliott Carter Rome Prize:Christopher StarkAssociate Professor, Department of Music, Washington University in St. LouisPiano Trio

Paul Mellon Rome Prize:Elizabeth G. ElmiVisiting Assistant Professor, Department of Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInscribing the Self in Occupied Southern Italy: Culture, Politics, and Identity in Lyric Song Practices of the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples

Marian and Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize:Stephanie LeitzelPhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard UniversityEconomies of Color: Italian Capitalists, Dye Commerce, and the Making of a Global Economy (14501650)

National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize:S. Elizabeth PenryAssociate Professor, Department of History, Fordham UniversityThe Italian Renaissance in Diaspora: Jesuit Education and Indigenous Modernities

Rome Prize in Visual Arts:Tony CokesProfessor, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown UniversityThe Daily Practice of Representation: The Artist and the Studio

Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize:Todd GrayArtist, Los Angeles and Akwidaa, Ghanathe hidden order of the whole

Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize:Ester PartegsArtist, New YorkBreathing Structures

Abigail Cohen Rome Prize:Elle PerezAssistant Professor, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard UniversitySurrender

Philip Guston Rome Prize:Ioana M. UricaruAssociate Professor, Department of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury CollegeURSA MAJOR

Philip Guston Rome Prize:Bradford M. YoungOwner and Cinematographer, Bradford Young DP, BaltimoreUntitled GYMR

Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow:Edward LossJean Franois Malle Fellow, I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance StudiesThe Pope as a Spymaster: Papacy, Espionage, and Institutions of Information Gathering of Late Medieval Italy (Late Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)

Marcello Lotti Italian Fellow in Music:Marco MomiMusic Composer, PerugiaCommunity Concerto

Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture:Alessandro MulazzaniLandscape Architect, VeniceThe Sea of Rome: A Quest for a Coastal Sustainable Landscape

Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts:Alice VisentinVisual Artist, TurinMalefate

Anna E. Arabindan-KessonAssistant Professor, Departments of African American Studies and Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityA Dream of Italy: Black Geographies and the Grand Tour

Emily Greenwood, Jury ChairLaurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton UniversitySeth Bernard(2011 Fellow)Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of TorontoJane D. ChaplinJames I. Armstrong Professor of Classics, Eve Adler Department of Classics, Middlebury CollegeAllison L. C. Emmerson(2019 Fellow)Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Tulane UniversityJinyu LiuProfessor, Department of Classical Studies, DePauw University

Michael Bierut, Jury Chair (2016 Resident)Partner, Pentagram, New YorkJ. Yolande Daniels(2004 Fellow)Principal, studioSUMO; and Associate Professor, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFelecia DavisPrincipal, Felecia Davis Studio; and Associate Professor of Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture, Pennsylvania State UniversityGary Hilderbrand(1995 Fellow, 2018 Resident)Principal, Reed-Hilderbrand, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard UniversityWalter J. Hood(1997 Fellow, 2014 Resident)Creative Director, Hood Design Studio, Berkeley; and Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California, BerkeleyCalvin Tsao(2010 Resident)Principal, Tsao & McKown Architects, New York

Thompson M. Mayes, Jury Chair (2014 Fellow)Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DCAmy FreitagExecutive Director, J. M. Kaplan Fund, New YorkStella Nair(2017 Fellow)Associate Professor, Indigenous Arts of the Americas, Department of Art History, University of California, Los AngelesCristina PuglisiConservator and Senior Project Manager, Integrated Conservation Resources and Integrated Conservation Contracting (ICR-ICC), New York

Bruce Smith,Jury Chair (2016 Resident)Professor, Department of English, Syracuse UniversityAlexandra Kleeman(2021 Fellow)Assistant Professor of Writing, Creative Writing Program, New SchoolYiyun LiProfessor of Creative Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton UniversityMary Jo SalterKrieger-Eisenhower Professor, Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University

William Connell, Jury ChairProfessor of History and La Motta Endowed Chair in Italian Studies, Department of History, Seton Hall UniversitySusan Boynton(1999 Fellow)Professor of Music (Historical Musicology), Department of Music, Columbia UniversityJoshua ODriscollAssistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Morgan Library and MuseumJolle Rollo-KosterProfessor of Medieval History, Department of History, University of Rhode IslandTeofilo F. Ruiz(2020 Resident)Distinguished Research Professor (emeritus), Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Silvana Patriarca, Jury ChairProfessor of History, Department of History, Fordham UniversitySean S. Anderson(2005 Fellow)Director, Undergraduate BArch Program and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell UniversityLeslie Cozzi(2018 Fellow)Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Baltimore Museum of ArtShelleen GreeneAssociate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los AngelesGaoheng ZhangAssociate Professor, Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia

Andrew Norman, Jury Chair (2007 Fellow)Professor of Composition, Juilliard SchoolChen YiLorena Searcy Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor of Composition, Conservatory, University of Missouri, Kansas CityVittorio Montalti(2014 Italian Fellow)Professor of Composition, Potenza ConservatoryAugusta Read ThomasUniversity Professor of Composition, Department of Music, University of ChicagoBarbara WhiteProfessor, Department of Music, Princeton University

Estelle Lingo, Jury ChairProfessor of Art History and Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts, School of Art, Art History, and Design, University of Washington, SeattleSusanna BergerAssociate Professor of Art History and Philosophy, University of Southern CaliforniaMargaret Meserve(2007 Fellow)Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Notre DameJessie Ann OwensDistinguished Professor Emeritus, Music, University of California, DavisNicholas Terpstra(2019 Affiliated Fellow)Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto

Kate Fowle, Jury ChairDirector, MoMA PS1E. V. Day(2017 Fellow)Artist, New YorkAllen Frame(2018 Fellow)Artist and Adjunct Professor, Photography MFA, Pratt InstituteRashid JohnsonArtist, New YorkCarrie Mae Weems(2006 Fellow)Artist and University Artist in Residence, Syracuse University

John Davis Jury ChairPresident, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MassachusettsDiana GreenwoldLunder Curator of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian InstitutionMargaretta LovellProfessor, Jay D. McEvoy Jr. Professor of American Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley

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