American Academy In Rome Announces This Year's Rome Prize Winners

Forbes

23-04-2025

The American Academy of Rome has announced the 35 winners of this year's Rome Prize.
The 2025-26 recipients 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 this evening at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
There are 35 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 this fall. 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 has traditionally been 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, a new pilot Rome Prize will be awarded in a twelfth field — environmental arts & humanities, designed 'for collaborative efforts between artists and scholars working jointly on projects that help expand our understanding of the way human beings relate to, experience, and process their encounters with the natural world.'
This year's awardees were selected from 990 applicants in 44 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 17 different countries. The acceptance rate, determined by juries of distinguished artists and scholar was 3.54 percent.
'The Rome Prize is one of the world's most prestigious fellowship programs and provides the rare opportunity for scholars and artists across a range of sub-fields to collaborate with each other,' said Peter N. Miller, President of the American Academy in Rome, in the press release.
'Presented with the opportunity to deeply engage with their work and with that of the other fellows, Rome Prize winners return home with perspectives profoundly enriched by their immersion in an interdisciplinary community set in Rome. The winners form the heart of the Academy, embodying its ethos and extending its international impact through their work now and into the future,' added Miller.
Here is the complete list of the 2025–26 Rome Prize winners, plus the winner of the Tsao Family Rome Prize.
Paula Gaither, Department of Classics, Stanford University; Cynthia Liu, Department of Classics, University of Oxford; William Pedrick, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; and Dennis E. Trout, Department of Classics, Archaeology, and Religion, University of Missouri. and Darcy Tuttle, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley.
Akima Brackeen, School of Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory Henry, Principal and Founder, Atelier Cory Henry, Los Angeles, CA.
Heather Scott Peterson, Department of Architecture, Woodbury University; and Ginny Sims-Burchard, Proprietor and Studio Artist, Ginny Sims Ceramics, Minneapolis.
Sean Mooney, Managing Director and Chief Curator, Rock Foundation, New York; Chuna McIntyre, Founder and Director, Nunamta Yup'ik Eskimo Singers and Dancers; Katharine Ogle, Department of English, University of Southern California; Adam Summers, Department of Biology and the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington.
Claudia Chemello, Principal and Co-founder, Terra Mare Conservation, Charleston, SC; and Paul Mardikian, Principal and Co-founder, Terra Mare Conservation, Charleston, SC.
Tameka Baba, Landscape Architecture Section, Knowlton School, Ohio State University; Sean Burkholder, Department of Landscape Architecture, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania; and Karen Lutsky, Landscape Architecture, College of Design, University of Minnesota.
Maya Binyam, Department of Literature, Claremont McKenna College; and David Keplinger, MFA Program in Creative Writing, Department of Literature, American University.
Nastasya Kosygina, Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine; and John Mulhall, Department of History, Purdue University.
Charles Leavitt, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame; and Kevin Martín, Department of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Lembit Beecher, Composer, New York, NY; and Oswald Huỳnh, Composer, Portland, Oregon.
Eva Del Soldato, Department of Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; and Margo H. Weitzman, Department of Art History, Rutgers University.
Daniel J. Sheridan, Independent Scholar, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Jennifer Bornstein, Department of Art, University of California, Irvine; T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Department of Painting and Drawing, School of Art, Art History, and Design, University of Iowa; Andrea Fraser, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles; Liz Glynn, Department of Art, University of California, Irvine Heather Hart, Department of Art and Design, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University; and Jefferson Pinder, Department of Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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, 54 MacArthur Fellowships, 26 Grammy awards, 5 Pritzker Prizes, 9 Poet Laureate appointments, and 5 Nobel Prizes.