Humanities Awards

Humanities Awards

Rome Fellowships (nine months)

Rome Fellowships at the BSR offer early career postdoctoral researchers the chance to spend nine months in Rome pursuing independent research on the social, religious, political, and economic cultures of the Italian peninsula and their wider reception, from prehistory to the present.

Our Rome Fellows join a dynamic community of scholars and artists working across the humanities, visual arts, and architecture. With access to world-class resources, a lively programme of events, and a network of international research partners, Rome Fellows are supported in developing their work in new and exciting directions.

The BSR offers time and space for focused research, while also encouraging rich intellectual and creative exchange. Whether deepening a long-term project or starting something new, Rome Fellows are part of a tradition of excellence and innovation that connects the UK and Italy with the wider Mediterranean and beyond.

Applications open in September and close in November each year.
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Latest Events

Latest Events

ITALY
Lecture | In Search of the pontifex maximus in Quattrocento Rome
In the roughly 1000 years after its supposed rejection by the emperor Gratian as ‘unlawful for a Christian’, the pagan title pontifex maximus was only rarely used
14 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30
ITALY
Lecture | Urban regeneration in the 21st Century: from idea to reality
London, like many European cities, underwent major changes after the second world war, including large-scale construction of new housing using modernist ideals, the decline of
21 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30
ITALY
Material Environments | The Water-mills on the Janiculum and the Gothic Siege of Rome
This is the third in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic
29 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30

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