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American Academy in Rome

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The American Academy in Rome, founded in 1894 and chartered by the US Congress in 1905 and 1912, is an independent center for the development of US artists and scholars. Its present institutional form dates to 1914, when the American Academy, newly consolidated with the American School of Classical Studies in Rome (founded in 1895 under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America), took up a joint campus on the Janiculum Hill, encompassing 11 acres.

The Academy still operates under its 1912 charter as “an institution for the study and practice of the fine arts and for the study and investigation of the archaeology, literature, and history of the Classical and later periods.” The Academy appoints its “Rome Prize” Fellows through a juried competition (with now typically four out of an annual total of c. 30 fellowships reserved for ancient studies). In addition to a small staff (which includes a Professor-in-Charge for the humanities), a complement of...

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Further Reading

  • Bonfante, L., and H. Nagy, eds. 2016. The collection of antiquities of the American Academy in Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

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  • Goldman, N.W., ed. 2001. New light from ancient Cosa: Classical Mediterranean studies in honor of Cleo Rickman Fitch. New York: Peter Lang.

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  • Kohl, B.G., et al. 1995. The centennial directory of the American Academy in Rome. New York/Rome: American Academy in Rome.

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  • Scott, R.T. 1995. The academy and the school of classical studies. In American Academy in Rome: Celebrating a century, 84–88. New York: American Academy in Rome.

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  • Valentine, A., and L.N. Valentine. 1973. The American Academy in Rome, 1894–1969. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

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  1. Department of Classics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Corey T. Brennan

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  1. Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Binghamton University - SUNY, Binghamton, NY, USA

    Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D.

  2. Department of Modern Languages and Classics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Alison Barclay

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Brennan, C.T. (2018). American Academy in Rome. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1429-2

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