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Awards for the Department at the American Musicological Society meeting
At the 2007 Annual Meeting of the AMS in Quebec City, members of the Department of Music received the following major awards:
The Otto Kinkeldey Award for best monograph by a senior scholar:
to Philip Gossett for his Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
The Ruth A. Solie Award for best multi-author collection of essays:
to Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon (U. Virginia), for The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press [NY], 2006). This volume contains several essays by current and former graduate students in the Department as well as by Prof. Judith Zeitlin (East Asian Studies)
The H. Colin Slim Award for best article by a senior scholar:
to Anne Walters Robertson for "The Savior, the Woman, and the Head of the Dragon in the Caput Masses and Motet" Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 59/3 (2006) [this article also served as the basis for a wonderful concert by the best Renaissance choir in the US, Pomerium, which was heared with Anne's introduction at the meeting]
The Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation-Year Fellowship:
to Michael A. Anderson for his dissertation "SYMBOLIZING THE SAINTS: THEOLOGY, RITUAL, AND KINSHIP IN MUSIC FOR JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST. ANNE (CA. 1175-1520)".
In addition, in October, Anne Walters Robertson was also awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal of the Yale University Graduate School Alumni Association "for outstanding achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration and public service".
Philip Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Professor in the Humanities and Music, has been named the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor.
Bohlman, who was Chair of Jewish Studies from 2003 to 2006, has broad research and teaching interests that include folk and popular music, Jewish music, music of the Middle East and South Asia, music and nationalism, and music and religion.
He has authored numerous books, most recently, The Music of European Nationalism (2004), Jüdische Volksmusik: Ein Mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte (2005) and the forthcoming Jewish Music and Modernity (2008). He is currently working on books about music drama during the Holocaust and Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, as well as "the silence of music," the subject of his 2007 Royal Halloway-British Library lectures.
Bohlman also is a pianist and serves as the artistic director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, a Jewish cabaret that is an Ensemble-in-Residence at the University. He serves as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
He has won numerous honors, including the Edward Dent Medal of the Royal Music Association, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin and most recently, the British Academy's Derek Allen Prize for Musicology.
A member of the Chicago faculty since 1987, Bohlman also has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University and the Universities of Freiburg, Vienna and Newcastle as well as the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Bohlman received his M.M. and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois in 1980 and 1984, respectively.
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