We are proud to share that two exceptional graduate students from the Division of Arts & Humanities have been named 2025–26 Rome Prize Fellows by the American Academy in Rome, one of the most esteemed honors in the humanities and arts.
Darcy Tuttle, a Ph.D. candidate in the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Graduate Group, was awarded the Donald and Maria Cox | Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize in Ancient Studies. Her research explores Roman republican to early imperial social and cultural history, with a particular focus on the material lives of urban non-elites. Her scholarly work is informed by five seasons of fieldwork in Italy with the Gabii Project.
Kevin Martín, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Italian Studies, received the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize. Kevin’s dissertation, Silenced Lexicons: The Historical Sociolinguistics of Italian-Occupied East Africa, 1882–1947, examines linguistic phenomena that spawned from the Italian colonial period in the Horn of Africa (1882-1947). His interdisciplinary research contributes to a broader understanding of the Romance language family’s interactions beyond Western Europe.
The Rome Prize supports advanced independent work and interdisciplinary exchange in the arts and humanities. Winners are selected annually through a national competition and awarded a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the American Academy in Rome for five to eleven months.
We extend our warmest congratulations to Darcy and Kevin for this remarkable achievement and for their outstanding contributions to scholarship at Berkeley and beyond.