Research on the sixteenth-century military architect Giovan Battista Belluzzi, who worked for the de Medici in Florence and on the island of Elba, conducted at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. While in Washington Lamberini, of the University of Florence, also consulted a unique 17th-century manuscript held by the US Library of Congress and worked with the US Army archives on the postwar restoration of stolen art treasures to Italy.
Awardee Database
Awardees
Nicole Ives
Project on the integration of Bosnian refugees into Danish society. At the time, Ives was a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Neil Christian Pages
Project on memorialization in contemporary culture, focusing on a study of Copenhagen’s Isted Lion. At the time, Pages was in the German Department at SUNY Binghamton.
Jennifer von Reis
Project on Finnish women in mathematics
Juniper Hill
Project on the cross-temporal and cross-cultural fusions in Finnish folk music
Erin Dougherty
Project on the history and development of Sami political rights. Dougherty, of Willamette College, had already worked with the Inuit population in Sitka, Alaska. She conducted this Norwegian project based at the University of Tromsø, then planned to go to law school.
Jean Manes
In recognition of her work in Montevideo. Manes also participated in a broadcast on the Lois Roth Award on the Voice of America Spanish.
Orna Blum
Orna Blum was award Lois Roth Award (Honorable Mention) for work with marginalized communities in Jamaica.
John Felstiner
For his translation of the Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan.
Dick Davis
Jointly awarded, with Afkham Darband, for their translation of Farid-Ud-Din Attar’s classic text, The Conference of the Birds.
Afkham Darband
Jointly awarded, with Dick Davis, for their translation of Farid-Ud-Din Attar’s classic text, The Conference of the Birds.
Françoise Cartano
For the translation of Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser.
Nili Kaplan‐Myrth
Project on the prevention of blindness in aboriginal communities. At the time, Kaplan-Myrth was at Yale University.
Sabra Thorner
Project on the social impact of Australia’s Aboriginal Cultural Centers. At the time, Thorner was at Georgetown University.
Elio Brancaforte
Project on maps of the Baroque period held in Danish libraries and archives
Nathan Kramer
Project on contemporary writer Villy Sørenson.
Maile Chapman
Project: a historically-based novel weaving threads from medicine and public heath, institutional architecture and women’s healthcare. At the time, Chapman was at Syracuse University.
Tomas Matza
Project on the challenge to Finnish national identity posed by globalization. At the time, Matza, a recent Princeton University graduate, was developing a career as a journalist.
Baron Kelly
Project on the thirty-year Scandinavian career of Earle Hyman, distinguished black American actor who learned Norwegian, Swedish and Danish and performed the classical repertory, from Ibsen to Strindberg and Shakespeare to O’Neill, before his American career began. At the time, Kelly was in the Theater Department at the University of Wisconsin.
Anna Rudberg
Project on the response of theology and religion to recent social change. At the time, geographer Rudberg was at Dartmouth College.
Alexandra Zafiroglu
Project on the shift in the daily experience of time and space brought about by the use of mobile phones. At the time, Zafiroglu was at Brown University.
Omie Kerr
Exceptional second prize awarded for work as a Cultural Attaché in Mexico.
*The Prix Coindreau Prize, The Jeanne Varnay Pleasants Prize for Language Teaching, and the CASVA-Henry & Judith Millon Award are currently inactive.