Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome

For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence.

Fellowships are chosen from the following disciplines:

• Ancient studies
• Architecture
• Design: includes graphic, industrial, interior, exhibition, set, costume, and fashion design, urban design, city planning, engineering, and other design fields
• Historic preservation and conservation
• Landscape architecture: includes environmental design and planning, landscape/ecological urbanism, landscape history, sustainability and ecological studies, and geography
• Literature: includes fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry
• Medieval studies
• Modern Italian studies
• Musical composition
• Renaissance and early modern studies
• Visual arts: includes painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film and video, installation, new media, digital arts, and other visual-arts fields

Award

Full-term fellowships generally run from early September through the following June. Winners of half-term fellowships may indicate a preference to begin in September or February. Each Rome Prize winner is provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a private workspace.

Eligibility

• Applicants for all Rome Prize Fellowships, except those applying for the National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowships, must be United States citizens at the time of their application.
• Graduate students in the humanities may apply for predoctoral fellowships only if they are all but dissertation (ABD).