Anna Mascorella wins Einaudi fellowship for research in Rome

Anna Mascorella
Mascorella

Anna Mascorella, a doctoral candidate in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program at Cornell, was recently awarded the Luigi Einaudi Fellowship for Dissertation Research from the Cornell Institute for European Studies and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

The fellowship award will allow Mascorella to spend the 2016-17 academic year in Rome, Italy, for work toward her dissertation, “Restoration, Displacement, Appropriation: Negotiating the Baroque Legacy in Fascist Rome.”

Mascorella will investigate the urban reconfiguration of Rome under Benito Mussolini, and hopes to provide new insights that frame struggles in contemporary Rome and the city’s relationship to its past. She will do research at the Archivio Centrale dello Stato and the Archivio Storico Capitolino, among other institutions, museums and sites in Rome, Bologna and Florence.

The competitive fellowship is only available to doctoral students at Cornell who undertake research in modern European government, history, economics and related social science fields.

“This is a major coup for Anna – who will be in Rome next year researching the PNF (Partito Nazionale Fascista/National Fascist Party)’s complex negotiation of the Baroque legacy in the city’s urban fabric,” said Medina Lasansky, Mascorella’s special committee chair.

Lasansky, the Michael A. McCarthy Associate Professor of Architectural Theory, said professor of architecture Mary Woods and Claudia Lazzaro, professor and director of graduate studies in the history of art, also have provided guidance in Mascorella’s area of research and her dissertation work to date.

The Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship includes a graduate student stipend, in absentia fees and enrollment in Cornell’s student health insurance plan.

Mascorella also received the 2015 Manon Michels Einaudi Grant for dissertation research in Rome, and was recently notified of a citation of special recognition from the Graham Foundation’s highly competitive 2016 Carter Manny Award program for dissertations in architecture. The reviewers noted that Mascorella’s work was “among a small and impressive group of projects selected for this honor … We believe [her] project will make an important contribution to architecture.”

Edith Fikes is a writer for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

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