2009-2010

Balsdon Fellow

John Robertson (Oxford): Sacred history and enlightenment history: Rome and Naples 1650–1750 (October–December 2009)

Hugh Last Fellow

Caroline Vout (Cambridge): Rome: city of seven hills (January–March 2010)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow

Ana Maria Suarez Huerta: Travels across Europe in the eighteenth century: the unique case of Spain (April–July 2010)

Rome Fellows

Catherine Fletcher (Royal Holloway/Birkbeck/Open): Our men in Rome: ambassadors and agents at the papal court, c. 1450–1550 (October 2009–June 2010)

Richard Pollard (Cambridge): 1. An edition and commentary for the seventh-century papal letters; 2. A study and edition of ninth-century Nonantola’s manuscript annotations (October 2009–June 2010)

Rome Scholar

Tom True (Cambridge): Sistine patronage and urbanism in the Marche (1585–1620) (October 2009–June 2010)

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar

Amy Russell (California at Berkeley): The transformation of public space in Republican and Augustan Rome (October 2009–June 2010)

Rome Awardees

Joseph Hammond (St Andrew’s): Art and patronage of the Carmelite order (October–December 2009)

Paul Howard (Oxford): ‘Tu sei nimmico/der tale o dder tar re: ffàje la guerra’: Casus Belli — Giuseppe Gioachino waging war between tradition and experimentation (January–March 2010)

Tim Potter Memorial Awardee

Ann Liebeck (Oxford): Anna de Amicis, Antonia Bernasconi, Lucrezia Agujari and Caterina Gabrielli, their influence on changing vocal technique in works for soprano by Mozart, through the operas of Jommelli, Traetta and the Neapolitan School (October–December 2009)

Macquarie University Gale Scholar

Clare Rowan (Macquarie): 1. Building an emperor: Roman visions of imperial monuments; 2. ‘Under divine auspices’: patron deities and the visualization of imperial power in the Severan period (October 2009–June 2010)

Melbourne Rome Scholar

David Chidgey (Melbourne): An Italian teacher of English language and culture in sixteenth-century England and Italy (February–April 2010)

2008-2009

Balsdon Fellow
Michael Bury (Edinburgh): Divergent judgements: works of art in contention, Rome 1540–1610 (January–March 2009)

Hugh Last Fellow
Stephen Heyworth (Oxford): A commentary on Ovid, Fasti 3 (April–June 2009)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow
William Eisler (Musée monetaire cantonal, Lausanne): The medals of Martin Folkes: art, Newtonian science and Masonic sociability in the age of the Grand Tour (September–December 2008)

Rome Fellows
Carrie Churnside (Birmingham): The seventeenth-century sacred cantata in the papal states (October 2008–June 2009)
Emiliano Perra (Bristol): The Holocaust in Italian television (October 2008–June 2009)

Rome Scholars

Meaghan McEvoy (Oxford): The resurgence of Rome in the fifth century AD (October 2008–June 2009)

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar
Marden Nichols (Cambridge): The Odyssey frieze, a Roman wall-painting of the first century BCE considered in a spatial and cultural context (October 2008–June 2009)

Rome Awardees
Caillan Davenport (Oxford): New élites in Rome and Italy, AD 235–337 (October–December 2008)

Claire Holleran (King’s, London): Shopping in ancient Rome (October–December 2008)

Elizabeth Munro (Oxford): Recycling the Roman villa: the use of architectural components as raw materials for small-scale production in the late Roman period (October–December 2008)

Edward Payne (Courtauld): Violence and corporality in the art of Jusepe de Ribera (January–March 2009)

Tim Potter Memorial Awardee
Alun Williams (Cardiff): Colonization in the western Mediterranean: case-studies of Greek, Roman and Phoenician colonies in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia (January–March 2009)

Macquarie University Gale Scholar
Duncan Keenan-Jones (Macquarie): The Aqua Augusta. Regional water supply in Roman and late antique Campania: an historical and archaeometrical study (November 2008–July 2009)

Melbourne Rome Scholar
Mark Shepheard (Melbourne): Musicians and artists at the court of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in Rome, 1689–1740 (January–March 2009)

Giles Worsley Travel Fellow

Rebecca Madgin (Leicester/East London): The contemporary value of industrial architecture — the Ostiense Quarter (October–December 2008)

2007-2008

Balsdon Fellow
Maureen Carroll (Sheffield): Burial and commemoration of babies and neonates in Roman Italy, Gaul and the Celtic North (April–June 2008)

Hugh Last Fellow
Penelope Davies (Texas at Austin): Art and persuasion in Republican Rome (January–March 2008)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow
Viccy Coltman (Edinburgh): Marble mania: the art history and historiography of sculpture in Britain since 1790 (September–December 2007; March 2008)

Rome Fellows
Lucy Davis (Courtauld/CASVA Washington DC): ‘Pittori fiamminghi’ at the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590–1630 (October 2007–June 2008)
Sarah Morgan (Sydney): Ines Donati, ‘La Capitana’: the making of a female fascist martyr (October 2007–June 2008)

Rome Scholars
Annelies Cazemier (Oxford): Sanctuaries in southern Italy and Sicily in the face of Roman expansion (October 2007–June 2008)
Rachel King (Manchester): Communities of craftsmen and consumers of Baltic amber in early modern Rome (October 2007–June 2008)

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar
Paul Johnson (Southampton): Trade, exchange and the development of Italian maritime cities in late antiquity (October 2007–June 2008)

Rome Awardees
Sarah Burnett (Warwick): A saint between east and west: the cult of Saint Nicholas in medieval Italy (January–March 2008)
Matthew Dal Santo (Cambridge): Orthodoxy, asceticism and the cult of saints as aspects of Byzantine Latinism in the writings of Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) (October–December 2007)
Frances Parton (Cambridge): The Liber Pontificalis and Franco-papal relations 824–91 (October–December 2007)
Benjamin Russell (Oxford): Sculpted stone and the Roman economy, 100 BC –AD 300 (January–March 2008)

Tim Potter Memorial Awardee
Victoria Leitch (Oxford): Trade in Roman and late Roman north African cookwares in Italy (October–December 2007)

Macquarie University Gale Scholar
Jaye McKenzie-Clark (Macquarie): Ceramic production in Campania: the supply and distribution of tabelware to Pompeii (October 2007–June 2008)

Balsdon Fellow
Susan Walker (Ashmolean, Oxford): The fall of Alexandria in early Roman imperial art (January–March 2007)

Hugh Last Fellow
Christopher Smith (St Andrews): The struggle for Rome (October–December 2006)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellows
Andrew Moore (Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service): The Grand Tour of Thomas Coke, 1712–1718 (January–April 2007)
Carol Richardson (Open University): The Venerable English College, Rome: a study in Anglo-Roman cultural relations (April–July 2007)

Rome Fellow
Simon Martin: Sport: a cultural history of twentieth-century Italy (October 2006–June 2007)

Rome Fellow or Scholar
Natasja De Bruijn (Glasgow): Examining the role of stone technologies in bronze and iron age communities: a Sardinian case study (October 2006–June 2007)

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar
Isabelle Vella Gregory (Cambridge): A study of Sardinian bronzetti and archival material in central Italian and Sardinian collections (October 2006–June 2007)

Rome Scholars
Meredith Carew (Oxford): Italian Fascist venereal disease control policy: an examination of the theory and practice of government policy regarding health and sexuality, 1922–45 (October–November 2006; January–July 2007)
Miles Pattenden (Oxford): Canon law and government in the Renaissance papal states (October 2006–June 2007)

Rome Awardees
Roslynne Bell (Canterbury, New Zealand): The Augustan and Julio-Claudian cult of the Magna Mater (December 2006–March 2007)
Maximilian Gwiazda (Cambridge): Cistercian architecture and sculpture and the culture of thirteenth-century Latium (June–July 2007)
Jason Mander (Oxford): Reconstructing the children of Rome: an assessment of funerary depictions in the capital and their influence on Italy and the western provinces (December 2006)
Heather Robbins (Toronto, Canada): The origins and development of the cult of martyrs in Rome (October–December 2006)
Jessica Sharkey (Cambridge): The politics of Thomas Wolsey’s cardinalate, 1515–30 (November–December 2006)

Macquarie University Gale Scholar
Peter Edwell (Macquarie): (1) The city of Rome in the age of Maxentius and Constantine; (2) The Palmyrenes in world history (November 2006–July 2007)

2005-2006

Balsdon Fellow
Ian Wood (Leeds): Modern uses of the early Middle Ages (January–March 2006)

Hugh Last Fellow
James Clackson (Cambridge): Languages of ancient Italy (April–June 2006)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellows
Chloe Chard (independent researcher): Laughter and the imaginative geography of Italy, c. 1750–1830 (September–December 2005)
John Wilton-Ely (independent researcher): The Adam Style: a revolution in design (January–April 2006)

A.D. Trendall Fellow
Frank Sear (Melbourne): The water supply in Pompeii (October–November 2005)

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar
Keith Swift (Oxford): Archaeological and petrological approaches to the intra- and inter-regional distribution of pottery as an indicator of economic interaction in central Adriatic Italy (October 2005–June 2006)

Rome Fellows
Emma-Jayne Graham (Sheffield): An evaluation of the evidence for the rite of os resectum at Rome during the late Republic (October 2005–June 2006)
Adam Gutteridge (Cambridge/Brown): Making time: creating the ancient and curating the ruined in late antique Rome (October 2005–June 2006)
Lucy Sackville (York): An examination of high medieval inquisition manuals (October 2005–June 2006)

Rome Scholars
Carlos Machado (Oxford): The changing faces of power: the dedication of honorific statues in late Roman Italy and Africa (third–fifth centuries AD) (October 2005–June 2006)

Rome Awardees
Matthew Elliot (United Arab Emirates): The Dario Piperno affair and the rise and fall of Italian influence in Afghanistan under Amanullah (June–July 2006)
Kate Litherland (Leicester): News and current affairs on RAI: television, language and politics in the first ten years of Italy’s Second Republic (October 2005–January 2006)
Natalia Nowakowska (King’s, London/Oxford): The kingdom of Erasmus? Humanism, heresy and reform in the Polish Church, 1500–35 (February 2006)
William Wootton (Oxford): Paving Pompeii: an interdisciplinary investigation into craftsmanship, technology and mosaic production (December 2005–March 2006)

2004-2005

Balsdon Fellow
Louise Bourdua (Aberdeen): 'Before and after Giotto.' Art and patronage in Padua (October - December 2004)

Hugh Last Fellow
Philip Kenrick (freelance/Oxford): Revision of Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum (January - March 2005)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow
Edward Corp (Toulouse): The Stuart court in Italy , 1717-66 (April - July 2005)

Ralegh Radford Rome Fellow
Felicity Harley (Adelaide): The origins and development of church decoration in Rome , fourth-sixth centuries (October 2004 - June 2005)

Rome Fellow
Phillippa Plock (Leeds): Nicholas Poussin's representations of femininity in 1620s Rome (October 2004 - June 2005)

Rome Scholars
Luca Baldoni (UCL): Male loves. Homosexuality in twentieth-century Italian poetry: Saba , Pasolini, Penna and Bellezza (October 2004 - June 2005)

Nicholas Cullinan (Courtauld): Untying 'the knot': arte povera in context (October 2004 - April 2005)

Lucy Donkin (Courtauld): Baths and bathing in medieval Italy (October 2004 - June 2005)

Rome Awardees
Caroline Anderson (York): Domestic devotion and the material culture of private religion in Counter-Reformation Florence (February - March 2005)

Kristian Chetcuti Bonavita (Cambridge): Cultural identity as a process of change: the archaeology of north Italy in the Roman world (January - March 2005)

Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou (Oxford): Human responses to environmental instability: re-assessing the nature of Late Glacial (15,000-10,000 bp) human subsistence changes (October - November 2004)

Julien Riel-Salvatore (Arizona State): Meridionalismo and the development of Italian prehistoric research (December 2004 - February 2005)

Tim Potter Memorial Awardee
Tehmina Bhote (Southampton): Objects, people, interactions: the material cultures of early medieval southern Italy (February 2005 - March 2005)

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2003-2004

Balsdon Fellow
Simon Stoddart (Cambridge): Power and place in Etruria.  The spatial dynamics of a mediterranean civilzation, 1200-500 BC (January - March 2004)

Cary Fellow
Robert Coates-Stephens (Reading): The archaeology and architecture of ancient and medieval Rome

Hugh Last Fellow
Nicholas Purcell (Oxford): (1) The Kingdom of the Capitol; (2) Plebs urbana (October - December 2003)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow
Elizabeth Sears (Michigan): Art historians in Rome in the 1920s and 1930s (April - July 2004)

Rome Fellow
Alice Sanger (Manchester): The role of relics in art patronage, collecting and aristocratic devotion in early modern Rome (1563-c.1650) (October 2003 - June 2004)

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar
Michele Forte (Sheffield): Changing patterns in the exploitation of a mountain environment in south-central Italy (October 2003 - June 2004)

Rome Scholars
Roberto Cobianchi (Warwick): Gabriele Rangone (1410-86): the first observant Franciscan cardinal and his patronage in Rome and Bagnoregio (October 2003 - June 2004)

Jane Dunnett (Royal Holloway): The Censorship of Foreign Books under Fascism (October 2003 - June 2004)

Julie-Ann Vickers (Cambridge): Italian centres of 12th-century forgery: questions of production and reception (October 2003 - June 2004)

Rome Awardees
Jessica Hughes (Courtauld): Images of provinces/'nationes' in the art of the Roman Empire (October 2003 - January 2004)
Andrew Manson (Columbia): Architecture, archaeology and urbanism in 'La grande Rome': the Via dell'Impero and the Palazzo del Littorio competition (October 2003 - January 2004)

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2002-2003

Balsdon Fellows
Helen Hills (Manchester): Architecture and the politics of holiness in post-Tridentine Italy (1563 - c.1700) (March - May 2003)
Henry Hurst (Cambridge): Publication of Santa Maria Antiqua excavations on the Palatine Hill, Rome  (January - February 2003)

Cary Fellow
Robert Coates-Stephens (Reading): The archaeology and architecture of ancient and medieval Rome

Hugh Last Fellows
Guy Bradley (Cardiff): The Iuvanum Survey Project: the emergence and transformation of communities in Italy (September - November 2002)
Jennifer Price (Durham): Regional patterns of production and use of Roman vessel glass in central Italy - a preliminary study (January - March 2003)

Jaguar RCM Scholar
Juho Laitinen (cellist) (September - November 2002)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow
Richard Wrigley (Oxford Brookes): The image of the artist in Romantic Rome (September - November 2002; April - July 2003)

Rome Scholars
Piers Baker-Bates (Cambridge): Sebastiano del Piombo - his place in the artistic and religious world of sixteenth-century Rome (October 2002 - June 2003)

Xavier Salomon (Courtauld Institute): The patronage of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini (1571-1621) (October 2002 - June 2003)

Alexander Thein (Pennsylvania): The synoecism of Rome and Italy: a study of the Sullan veteran colonies (October 2002 - June 2003)

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar
Corinna Riva (Oxford): Exploring the Orientalizing period in the Picenum - Part of the Upper Esino Valley Survey (October 2002 - June 2003)

Rome Awardees
Benjamin Cornford (Cambridge): Early medieval histories of Rome: Jordanes and Paul the Deacon (January - April 2003)
Lisa Marlow (Cambridge): Investigation of Italian Lower Palaeolithic sites (October - November 2003)
Susan May (UCE, Birmingham): An enquiry into the nature and original locations of bibliographic collections of cardinals in fifteenth-century Rome (February - March 2003)
Jonathan Prag (UCL, London): The epigraphy of ancient Sicily and the archaeology of Western Sicily in the Republican period (June - July 2003)

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2001 - 2002

Balsdon Fellows
Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge): Charlemagne in Italy (April-June 2002)
Roger Wilson (Nottingham): Rural life in Roman Sicily: excavations and fieldwork at Castagna and Campanaio, province of Agrigento (June-August 2002)

Cary Fellow
Robert Coates-Stephens (Reading):  Architecture in Rome, AD 500-1000 (October 2001-September 2002)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow
Richard Read (University of Western Australia): Adrian Stokes: the early career: art criticism, literature and psychoanalysis (November 2001 - January 2002)

Trendall Fellow
Ron Ridley (University of Melbourne):  Travellers to Rome from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century (April-May 2002)

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar
Josephine Crawley Quinn (University of California, Berkeley): North African imperialism in Numidia, Carthage and Rome (January - September 2002)

Rome Scholars
Ann Alwis (King's College, London): A Vita less ordinary: investigating the educational literacy of women using an unpublished text of Greek saints' lives (January-September 2002)
Lucy Grig (Reading): Christianising Roman material culture:  a case-study of Roman gold-glass (January - September 2002)
Michael MacKinnon (Winnipeg): The osteological evidence for animal breeds in Roman Italy (May - December 2002)

Rome Awardees
Sally-Ann Ashton (University College London): Roman copies of Ptolemaic royal and divine statuary in Rome (June 2002)
Lisa Beaven (Auckland): The Roman patrons of Claude Lorrain: a study of landscape and landholdings in seventeenth-century Rome (January-March 2002)
Robert Colby (Courtauld): Artistic relations and political strife, Rome and Ferrara, 1505-1515 (July-September 2002)
Helen Dawson (UCL-Institute of Archaeology): Comparative cultural trajectories of the Italian islands from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (January - March 2002)
Clare Pilsworth (Manchester): Martyr narratives of early medieval Italy: textual transmission and social memory (May-July 2002)

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2000 - 2001

Balsdon Fellow
Penelope Curtis (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds): Antiquity and modernity in Italian sculpture of the inter-war period (c. 1920-40) (June–August 2001)

Cary Fellow
Alastair Small (Edinburgh): Archaeology of Roman Italy (April-June 2001)

Hugh Last Fellow
Lisa Nevett (Open University): Domestic space and social organisation in classical antiquity (September–November 2001)

Rome Scholars in Ancient, Medieval & Later Italian Studies (all April – December 2001)
Opher Mansour (Courtauld): The offensiveness of the body in Roman figurative art of the 1590s and 1600s
Gillian Murphy (University College London): Monastic violence in the medieval period
Timothy Saunders (Bristol): Mapping time and the Tiber in Virgil’s Aeneid and Augustan Rome

Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar
Barbara Polci (East Anglia): The episcopal residence in the mediterranean basin in late antiquity: typologies, roles and functions (April–December 2001)

Rome Awardees in Ancient, Medieval & Later Italian Studies
William Broadhead (University College London): Internal migration and the transformation of Roman Republican Italy (January - April 2001)
Patrick Nold (Oxford): Towards an intellectual biography of Pope John XXII: the early theological controversies (June-July 2001)
Louise Revell (Southampton): Epigraphic landscapes of the Tiber valley (May–July 2001)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow
Hugh Brigstocke: The rediscovery of the Italian primitives and the concept of Christian art in nineteenth-century Britain (April - June, October - December 2001)

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1999 - 2000

Balsdon Fellow
Robert Gibbs (Glasgow): Bolognese and North Italian illuminated law manuscripts in the Vatican Library (November-December '99)

Cary Fellow
Alastair Small (Edinburgh): Archaeology of Roman Italy (April-June '00)

Hugh Last Fellows
Janet DeLaine (Reading): The urban development of Roman Ostia: a reappraisal (January-April '00)
Kate Gilliver (Cardiff): Military reform in the Late Republic and Early Principate (March '00)

Rome Scholars in Ancient, Medieval & Later Italian Studies (all October '99 to June '00)
Erika Milburn (Oxford): Critical edition of the lyric poetry of Luigi Tansillo (1510-1568)
Mathilde Skoie (Reading): Sulpicia in the history of commentary-writing. The Italian story
Thomas de Wesselow (Courtauld, London): Fresco painting in Assisi c. 1305-8: Giotto, the 'St Francis Cycle' and the young Simone Martini
Andrew Wilson (Oxford): Water management in the Tiber Valley

Rome Awardees in Ancient, Medieval & Later Italian Studies
Ian Holgate (St Andrews): The cult of St Monica and the art patronage of the Augustinian Tertiaries in Italy 1430-c. 1480 (March-May '00)
Gillian Murphy (UCL, London): Deviation to the Rule: monks and the papacy in the Middle Ages (mid-September to mid-November '99)
Zahra Newby (Courtauld, London): Representing athletics in the second sophistic (April-June 2000)
Camilla Russell (RHBNC, London): Friends of the pen: the correspondence of the spirituali between 1560 and 1580 (September-November '99)

Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow
Helen Langdon: The idea of Naples: English artist travellers and writers in Romantic Naples (March-May '00)

Pelham Awardee
Mark Shepheard (Oxford): The amphora finds of Pompeii: origins, distribution and epigraphy (October '99 - June '00)