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Christopher Celenza F'03 Appointed Director of American Academy in Rome
12/16/2009
On December 14, the American Academy of Rome named Christopher S. Celenza F'03 its twenty-first director. He will serve a three-year tenure beginning in summer 2010.
Professor Celenza said, "I am honored to be able to serve the American Academy in Rome, an institution I, like many others, deeply admire. Its integration of the arts and humanities, its central place in what has long been one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, and its rich tradition of fostering the work of Americans abroad fill me with inspiration."
Professor Celenza is the recipient of a 2003 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars in support of his research on intellectual life in early modern Europe. These fellowships fund an academic year of residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program. Such an environment, beyond providing free time, encourages exchanges across disciplinary lines that can be especially helpful to deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The American Academy in Rome shares a similar aim of promoting academic and artistic exchange among scholars.
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