Ingrid D. Rowland
Ingrid Drake Rowland | |
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| Born | August 19, 1953 |
| Alma mater | Pomona College Bryn Mawr College |
| Occupation(s) | Classical scholar, professor, author |
Ingrid D. Rowland (b. August 19, 1953[1]) is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame.[2] She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Biography
She is the daughter of Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate Frank Sherwood Rowland.
Rowland completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in classics at Pomona College in 1974[3] and earned her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Greek literature and classical archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.[2]
Based in Rome, Rowland writes about Italian art, architecture, history and many other topics for The New York Review of Books.
Publications
- The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome (1998)
- The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe (1999)
- The Scarith of Scornello: a Tale of Renaissance Forgery (2004) based on the "Etruscan" forgeries of Curzio Inghirami
- The Roman Garden of Agostino Chigi (2005)
- From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance (2005)[4]
- Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic (2008)
- From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town (2014)
- The Divine Spark of Syracuse (2019)
Awards and honors
- Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing, Robert B. Silvers Foundation, 2021[5]
- Socio Corrispondente, Accademia dei Sepolti, Volterra, Italy, 2005
- Founding Member, Academia Bibliotecae Alexandrinae (Egypt), 2004
- Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
- Fellow, Getty Research Institute, 2000–2001
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2000–2001
References
- ^ Sourced from http://authorities.loc.gov. Retrieved on July 25, 2011.
- ^ a b "Faculty Profile: Ingrid Rowland". University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
- ^ "Starr Named to Academy". Pomona College Magazine. Pomona College. 24 June 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
- ^ "Ingrid D. Rowland". New York Review of Books. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ^ Caplan, Walker (2022-01-05). "Here are the winners of the inaugural Silvers-Dudley Prizes for criticism and journalism". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
