Reimagining old and new worlds: the American Academy in Rome

SERIES: An international capital: Rome and foreigners 
SPEAKER: Aliza S. Wong, director American Academy in Rome
DATE: Thursday, April 18, 6 p.m. 

For 130 years, the American Academy in Rome has opened its doors to artists, architects, sculptors, art historians, writers, composers, designers, archaeologists, historians and all other creative thinkers in the arts and humanities who have found inspiration and innovation in the Eternal City. And while Rome Prize winners have dabbled in the historical context and reality of Rome's chaotic beauty, they have also celebrated the idea of Rome, the scope of possibilities and impossibilities made imaginable because of where we are, the air we breathe, the streets we walk. The American Academy in Rome is one of the few foreign academies to welcome not only scholars and artists from its own nation but also global creatives, including those from the host country, Italy. And in welcoming this pantheon of scholars, Rome and the American Academy have hosted 452 Guggenheim Fellows, 74 Pulitzer Prize winners, 52 MacArthur Fellows, 13 Grammy winners, 9 Pritzker Prize winners, 9 Poet Laureates and 5 Nobel Laureates.

Aliza S. Wong, current director of the American Academy in Rome, is professor of history, director of European studies and interim dean of the Honors College at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. The field of her research is modern Italy and the Mediterranean, with a focus on issues of race, nation, culture and identity. She has won numerous teaching and research awards, as well as received recognition for her work on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, including being named Lubbock YWCA Woman of the Year for her work on social justice (2018) and Minnie Stevens Piper Professor of the Foundation (2019).

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