A joint resolution recognizing the American Academy in Rome, an American overseas center for independent study and advanced research, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding.
PL 103-299 (S.J.Res.204), enacted 08/18/1994

PUBLIC LAW 103-299—AUG. 18, 1994 
108 STAT. 1555 
Public Law 103-299 
103d Congress 
Joint Resolution 
Recognizing the American Academy in Rome, an American overseas center for 
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independent study and advanced research, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary 
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of its founding. 
[S.J. Res. 204] 
Whereas the American Academy in Rome was established 100 years 
ago in Italy as the foremost American overseas center for 
independent study and advanced research on the fine arts and 
the humanities; 
Whereas the American Academy in Rome has been a constant, 
active force for the enrichment of American culture, as year 
after year its Fellows and Residents have returned to the United 
States, enriched by the cultural heritage of Italy, and have con-
veyed their enrichment to their compatriots; 
Whereas the American Academy in Rome has maintained and 
expanded upon the basis of its founding, and currently serves 
more than 3,000 people annually with its fellowship and residency 
programs, its unique research library, a series of summer pro-
grams, and projects in archaeology and publishing, and serves 
thousands of other people who participate in Academy concerts, 
lectures, symposia, exhibitions, and other special events in Rome 
and the United States; 
Whereas the central purpose of the American Academy in Rome 
is its fellowship program, the Academy being committed to identi-
fying and nurturing the most promising American talent available 
through the annual Rome Prize Fellowships competition and 
related programs; 
Whereas since its founding, the American Academy in Rome has 
awarded more than 2,500 fellowships and residencies in the fields 
of architecture, design arts, landscape architecture, conservation 
and historic preservation, literature, musical composition, visual 
arts, classical studies, archaeology, art history, modern Italian 
studies, and post-classical humanistic studies; 
Whereas the i^erican Academy in Rome provides its gifted Fellows 
and Residents with the opportunity to develop and refine their 
professional, artistic, and scholarly potential through working 
on their own projects, interaction with their colleagues, and 
association with members of the Italian and European scholarly 
and artistic communities; 
Whereas Fellows and Residents of the American Academy in Rome 
have included 2 Nobel Prize winners, 4 United States Poets 
Laureate, 7 National Medal of Arts winners, 9 MacArthur Fel-
lows, and 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, and have won numerous 
other honors and awards; 
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PUBLIC LAW 103-299—AUG. 18, 1994 
Whereas the American Academy in Rome's Hbrary contains 111,000 
volumes and ranks among the world's richest in its holdings 
in the fields of Roman topography and archaeology, and is further 
distinguished for its collection of rare books, periodicals, and 
works on Italian art and architecture; 
Whereas the American Academy in Rome has always represented 
and fostered excellence in scholarship, having a distinguished 
scholarly faculty, having many of its Fellows and Residents go 
on to occupy chairs and posts of high responsibility in the finest 
colleges and universities in the United States, having publications 
which rival in quality the best that Europe produces, and having 
alumni who are the recipients of many academic degrees, honors, 
and awards; 
Whereas the American Academy in Rome can be proud of its reputa-
tion in Roman archaeology, having been committed to this lofty 
and exacting pursuit from its very inception, having revolution-
ized the history of Roman republican architecture and town plan-
ning by it's excavations at Cosa in Etruria, and by continuing 
to further the development of the field through its perennial 
engagement in the training of excavators and the work of exca-
vation; 
Whereas the American Academy in Rome relies entirely on the 
income from its endowment, and the financial support of philan-
thropic individuals, foundations, 
corporations, colleges 
and 
universities across the United States, and the National Endow-
ments for the Arts and for the Humanities; and 
Whereas the American Academy in Rome is committed to ensuring 
the availability of the Rome Prize Fellowships to future genera-
tions of Americans as the United States approaches the 21st 
century: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the American 
Academy in Rome, an American overseas center for independent 
study and advanced research based in Rome, Italy, which has 
played a pivotal role in the transference of culture between the 
United States and Italy, fostering international cultural relations 
between the two countries, be recognized for its contributions to 
America's cultural and intellectual life on the occasion of the 100th 
anniversary of its founding. 
Approved August 18, 1994. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S.J. Res. 204: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 140 (1994): 
July 15, considered and passed Senate. 
Aug. 8, considered and passed House.