Brigitte A. Keslinke and Giancarlo Tursi
Two BU alumni were named 2024 Rome Prize fellows in April 2024. Brigitte A. Keslinke (CAS’17) of Philadelphia, Pa., was named a winner of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Donald and Maria Cox Rome Prize in the category of Ancient Studies for “The Making of a Meal: Commensality in the Cult of Mithras.” Giancarlo Tursi (CAS’09) of Santa Barbara, Calif., won the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize in the Modern Italian Studies category for “Dialectal Dante: The Politics of Translation in Risorgimento Italy.” The Rome Prize, established in 1894, is granted to scholars of classical studies, ancient and modern history, art and architecture, literature, and other related disciplines. Brigitte and Giancarlo join the 2024 fellows at the American Academy in Rome for a yearlong study period.
From the Fall 2024 issue.