We are happy to share that Philip V. Bohlman, the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities in the College, was awarded the Research Ireland - Harrison Medal by the Society for Musicology (SMI). The Medal is awarded by the President and Council of the SMI to recognize outstanding achievements and excellence in research in musicology.
Bohlman was presented with the medal on November 24, after which he delivered the 2025 Harrison Lecture, "On Goodness." You can view the ceremony and lecture on YouTube.
About the Research Ireland – Harrison Medal
In 2004 the Harrison Medal was inaugurated by the Society for Musicology in Ireland in honor of Frank Llewellyn Harrison (1905–1987), the Irish musicologist who made a seminal contribution to the study of medieval music (especially music in medieval Britain) and to the study of ethnomusicology. Harrison held positions in Canada and the United States before being appointed to a Lectureship in Music at Oxford in 1952; he was appointed Reader in the History of Music there in 1962. Harrison subsequently became Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Amsterdam in 1970. A detailed account of his career and publications by Robin Elliott is available in EMIR, Vol. 1, pp. 469–471. In 2018 the award was renamed the Irish Research Council - Harrison Medal in recognition of the longstanding contribution towards the funding of the award by the Irish Research Council (IRC).