Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowships in the Humanities

FAIN: RA-50127-13

American Academy in Rome (New York, NY 10021-4905)
Adele Chatfield-Taylor (Project Director: August 2012 to June 2014)
Mark Robbins (Project Director: June 2014 to present)

Sixteen months of stipend support (1.5 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The American Academy in Rome requests an NEH grant of $442,800 for partial support of nine 11-month post-doctoral fellowships in the humanities (three in each of the following academic years: 2013-14, 2014-15, and 2015-16), and of the costs of the juries convened to select the winners. These NEH fellowships, which have provided crucial opportunities for scholars since 1976, are at the core of Academy's mission of advancing and enriching American culture and scholarship by maintaining a residential center for independent study, research, and creative work in the humanities and arts while fostering cross-disciplinary exchange, a philosophy that has informed the Academy's program since 1894.

Associated Products

Trojan Temporality and the Materiality of Literary History (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Trojan Temporality and the Materiality of Literary History
Abstract: The matter of Troy in the medieval Latin West sustains a vision of the city of Troy as ever present yet always already destroyed: a city that exists outside of time. In medieval historiography, the Fall of Troy results in the Trojan diaspora and the settlement of Europe by Trojan refugees who flee the burning city; the fall of Troy consequently makes the narrative of European history possible. This vision of Trojan ancestry as a myth of origins is often invoked to express a vision of European futurity. This paper will explore how the /translatio /of the matter of Troy generated its own temporality. In the absence of the Homeric epics, the matter of Troy was transmitted to the medieval West by the Latin prose texts attributed to Dares and Dictys. These texts represent themselves as the /translatio /of ancient Greek textual traditions and simultaneously as the material transmission of these traditions from papyrus to parchment. The vernacular itinerary of the Latin texts of Dares and Dictys create a distinct Trojan temporality. In the twelfth-century /Roman de Troie/, Benoît de Sainte-Maure insists that the materiality of translation practices allows the reader to participate directly in the Trojan War, while two centuries later, the visual program in a manuscript of Raoul de Presles’ translation of Augustine’s /De Civitate Dei/ encapsulates the atemporality of Troy as transmitted by Dares.
Author: Marilynn Desmond
Date: 01/21/2016
Location: University of Cambridge, UK
Primary URL: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/medieval/?p=709
Primary URL Description: University website

Introduzione storico-filosofica al Gymnasticus di Filostrato (English translation: Introduction to Philostratus' Gymnasticus) (Book Section)
Title: Introduzione storico-filosofica al Gymnasticus di Filostrato (English translation: Introduction to Philostratus' Gymnasticus)
Author: Heather Reid
Editor: Paolo Madella
Editor: Heather Reid
Editor: Emanuele Isidori
Editor: Alessandra Fazio
Abstract: This is a new Italian translation of Philostratus’ 3rd century CE essay on athletic training, On Gymnastics (Peri Gymnastike) with introductions and commentary aimed at scholars of sport history, philosophy, and pedagogy. Paolo Madella’s translation includes introductory notes and extensive footnotes that take into account recent scholarship as well as ancient context. Heather L. Reid provides a philosophical-historical introduction to the text, Emanuele Isidori and Alessandra Fazio offer a practical pedagogical interpretation of the text, and Fernando Garcia Romero opens the discussion with a preface that situates the text within the ancient and modern literature on sport. This is a new look aimed at modern sport scholars at the most complete text we have on ancient sport.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/sullallenamento/oclc/924160140&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: OCLC WorldCat
Publisher: Sette Città
Book Title: Filostrato: sull’Allenamento
ISBN: 9788878533820

Translatio imperii and the Matter of Troy in Angevin Naples (Article)
Title: Translatio imperii and the Matter of Troy in Angevin Naples
Author: Marilyn Desmond
Abstract: not available
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Italian Studies

Trojan Itineraries and the Matter of Troy (Book Section)
Title: Trojan Itineraries and the Matter of Troy
Author: Marilyn Desmond
Editor: Rita Copeland
Abstract: not available
Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Title: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in England: Vol. I: The Middle Ages

Defining Olympic Sport (Book Section)
Title: Defining Olympic Sport
Author: Heather Reid
Editor: Shawn E. Klein
Abstract: not available
Year: 2017
Publisher: Lexington Books
Book Title: Defining Sport: Conceptions and Boundaries

Plato the Gymnasiarch (Book Section)
Title: Plato the Gymnasiarch
Author: Heather Reid
Editor: Dora Katsonopoulou
Abstract: not available
Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Book Title: Festschrift in Hounour of Stephen G. Miller

Philosopher Kings and Tragic Heroes: Essays on Images and Ideas from Western Greece (Book)
Title: Philosopher Kings and Tragic Heroes: Essays on Images and Ideas from Western Greece
Editor: Davide Tanasi
Editor: Heather Reid
Abstract: not available
Year: 2016
Publisher: Parnassos Press
Type: Edited Volume
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Liberty, Bondage and Liberation in the Second Millennium BCE (Article)
Title: Liberty, Bondage and Liberation in the Second Millennium BCE
Author: Eva Von Dassow
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: "Ancient Liberties and Modern Perspectives" Special issue of History of European Ideas 44/6

Jews, Rights, and Belonging in Tunisia: Léon Elmilik, 1861-1881 (Article)
Title: Jews, Rights, and Belonging in Tunisia: Léon Elmilik, 1861-1881
Author: Jessica Marglin
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2020
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: L’Année du Maghreb, #23

David Castelli on Nationalism and Universalism (Article)
Title: David Castelli on Nationalism and Universalism
Author: Jessica Marglin
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2020
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The Jewish Quarterly Review, v. 110

Introduction: Jewish History in the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean in Jewish History (Book Section)
Title: Introduction: Jewish History in the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean in Jewish History
Author: Jessica Margolin
Author: Matthias B. Lehmann
Editor: Jessica Margolin
Editor: Matthias B. Lehmann
Abstract: What does an understanding of Jewish history contribute to the study of the Mediterranean, and what can Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of Jewish history? Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume emphasize human agency and culture over the length of Mediterranean history. This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://iupress.org/9780253047984/jews-and-the-mediterranean/
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Title: Jews and the Mediterranean
ISBN: 9780253047939

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