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Winners of the Fellowship Program 2008-2009

The Italian Academy is pleased to announce the winners of the Italian Academy Fellowship Program for the academic year 2008-2009:

Erminia Ardissino
Università di Torino
The emergence of modernity in 17th century Italian literature (Spring 2009)

Vittorio Enrico Avvedimento
Università Federico II di Napoli
Aging and disease: coping with oxidation-driven cellular processes (Spring 2009)

Jeremie Barthas
European University Institute
The transmission of Italian financial culture in France in the 15th and 16th centuries (Fall 2008)

Michele Battini
Università di Pisa
Alexander Bodini Research Fellow In Culture And Religion
Social anti-semitism in the Counter-Enlightenment (Fall 2008)

Bianca Calabresi
Columbia University
The female narcissus: Renaissance women's writing technologies (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

Walter Cupperi
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Italian sculpture in the Netherlands: 1530-1556 (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

Ferdinando Fiumara
Università di Torino
Perpetuation of memory storage: a novel mechanism in the long-term maintenance of synaptic plasticity and behavior (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

Marco Formisano
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gunpowder and the book: the art of war in Europe from the 4th through the 16th centuries (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

Stefano Gattei
Università di Pisa
Johannes Kepler and the history of the calculus (Spring 2009)

Mauro Grondona
Università di Genova
Alexander Pekelis: life, work and ideas (Fall 2008)

Rita Lucarelli
Leiden University
Demons in ancient Egypt during the Late and Greco-Roman Periods (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

Marco Pagano
Università Federico II di Napoli
The regulation and performance of financial markets (Spring 2009)

Vittorio Pellegrini
NEST INFM CNR National Research Council
The physics and applications of graphene-based nanodevices (Fall 2008)

Rosaria Polito
Università Cattolica di Roma
Alexander Bodini Research Fellow In Psychiatry

In vivo neurochemical action of cortical stimulation in the human brain: combined rTMS/MRS study of GABA, glutamate and glutamine (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

Silvio Pons
Università Tor Vergata di Roma
Communism and anti-communism in Italy: 1970s-1980s (Fall 2008)

Dominique Reill
University of Miami
Nationalists against the nation: 19th century projects for a multinational Europe (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

Riccardo Viale
Università di Milano-Bicocca
Visiting Senior Fellow

Cultural and cognitive aspects of tacit knowledge in technology transfer between academic and industrial laboratories (Spring 2009)

Megan Williams
Columbia University
Early modern diplomatic networks in the transmission of culture (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)