Prof. Alessandra Ciucci Awarded 2018-19 Rome Prize!

The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia offers our warmest congratulations to Prof. Alessandra Ciucci, who has been awarded the 2018-2019 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies! She will spend 2018-19 in residence at the American Academy in Rome completing her book, Resonances of the Rural across the Mediterranean: Music, Sound and Migrant Moroccan Men in Italy.

The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2018–19 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, 29 Rome Prizes were awarded to 29 artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five months to two years at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome. The Rome Prize and Italian Fellowship winners were presented on April 12, 2018, during the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union in New York.

For the full announcement, please see the Academy's website.