The Department of Music is pleased to acknowledge faculty, students, and alumni who have received research and publication prizes at recent meetings of the Society of Ethnomusicology, the Society for Music Theory, and the American Musicological Society Annual Meetings. Congratulations to all!
Society of Ethnomusicology
- Fiona Boyd (PhD candidate): Winner, Sound Studies Section Student Paper Prize.
- Shayna Silverstein (alumna): Honorable Mention, Ruth Stone Prize
- Jessica Baker (faculty): Winner, Ruth Stone Prize; Winner, Portia Maultsby Prize.
- Christ Batterman Chairez (alumnus): Winner, Charles Seeger Prize; Honorable Mention, Jaap Kunst Prize.
- Rumya Putcha (alumna): Honorable Mention, Marcia Herndo Prize; Winner, Kealiinohomoku Award.
American Musicological Society
- Gurminder Bhogal (PhD 2004): Winner, Roland Jackson Award for “Tracking the Harmonium from Christian Missionary Hymns to Sikh Kirtan” in the Yale Journal of Music and Religion
Society for Music Theory
- Thomas Christensen (faculty), Lester Hu (alum), and Carmel Raz (alum): Winners, Award for Diversity Course Design for course "History of Music Theory: Global Approaches and Perspectives"
- Yiqing Ma and Jacob Reed (PhD candidate): Honorable Mention, Award for Diversity Course Design for course "Analyzing Popular Music in East Asia: Hybridization and Globalization"
- Olga Sánchez Kisielewska (faculty): Winner, Emerging Scholar (Article) Award for “On Figaro’s Alleged Minuet and Some Challenges and Opportunities of Topic Theory” (Music Theory Spectrum 45, no. 1)
- Anabel Maler (alum): Winner, Emerging Scholar (Book) Award for Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music (Oxford University Press)