David Gilman Romano Awarded Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship

Aug. 21, 2024
David Gilman Romano stands at a mapping table with two students

David Gilman Romano with students in the Archaeology Mapping Lab at the University of Arizona.

Drew Bourland, University of Arizona

David Gilman Romano, a professor in the School of Anthropology, was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, or IAS. This prestigious membership allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas among an international community of scholars at one of the foremost centers for intellectual inquiry.

A man wearing a plaid shirt and University of Arizona ball cap stands outside

David Gilman Romano

Romano's fellowship research project, the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, has been ongoing since 2004. During this fellowship, he will write and edit Volume II of his Mt. Lykaion Studies series, which includes reports on excavations and scientific studies conducted in Arcadia, Greece — known in antiquity as the birthplace of Zeus. The series, co-directed and edited by Mary E. Voyatzis, also of the School of Anthropology at the U of A, will be published by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Throughout the fall semester, Romano will be in residence in Princeton, NJ and collaborating remotely with his students in the Archaeological Mapping Lab at the University of Arizona campus. 

"Working at the Institute is as close to a scholar's paradise as exists anywhere in the world!" Romano said. 

Each year, IAS welcomes more than 250 of the most promising post-doctoral researchers and distinguished scholars from around the world to advance fundamental discovery as part of an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Visiting scholars are selected through a highly competitive process for their bold ideas, innovative methods, and deep research questions by the permanent Faculty — each of whom are preeminent leaders in their fields. Past IAS Faculty include, Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, John von Neumann, Hetty Goldman, George Kennan, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Located in Princeton, NJ, the Institute for Advanced Study was established in 1930. Today, research at IAS is conducted across four Schools — Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science — to push the boundaries of human knowledge.

Among past and present scholars, there have been 35 Nobel Laureates, 44 of the 62 Fields Medalists, and 23 of the 27 Abel Prize Laureates, as well as MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows, winners of the Turing Award and the Wolf, Holberg, Kluge, and Pulitzer Prizes.

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