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Madison Schindele (musicology) awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2025-2026 Academic Year

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Madison Schindele (musicology), who has been named one of three CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students awarded Fulbright research fellowships for the 2025- 2026 academic year!  She has been selected alongside Ph.D. students Wesley Doucette (French) and Cortney Berg (Art History) from the GC as recipients of the prestigious award, funded by […]

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Musicologist Max Keller published in The New York Times

Musicologist and current PhD student Max Keller has had an essay published in The New York Times (in the print edition on June 22), titled “Does it Matter how a Cello is Held? It’s a Centuries-Old Debate.”  Congratulations! See link below to read Max’s article:  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/arts/music/cello-endpins-debate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk8.v2GD.iZPQfX9qYhA4&smid=url-share

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Prof. Anaar Desai-Stephens featured in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month

Prof. Anaar Desai-Stephens, who joined the Graduate Center faculty this year, has been featured by the Graduate Center in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, in recognition of scholars who are leading change in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.  Prof. Desai-Stephens, a member of the ethnomusicology faculty, focuses her research on popular music, media […]

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2025 AMS/NYU Lecture on April 10th featuring Prof. Emily Wilbourne

Join Professor Emily Wilbourne at New York University on April 10th, 2025 at 7pm for the 2025 AMS/NYU Lecture!  In this lecture, Prof. Wilbourne will draw on her recent award-winning book, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford, 2023).  Free admission, but registration is required. Please click here to see the event flyer with […]

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Rajeswari Ranganathan, Madison Schindele, and Joseph Vaz awarded Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year

Congratulations to three doctoral students from the Music department who have been awarded Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year: Rajeswari Ranganathan, Madison Schindele, and Joseph Vaz!  They are among the 102 doctoral candidates who were awarded dissertation fellowships from the annual Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship competition.   Rajeswari Ranganathan (Ethnomusicology) Nāgasvaram Ensemble […]

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Lindsey Williams (Ph.D. candidate in Musicology) wins the Graduate Student Essay Prize in Global Early Modern Studies

Congratulations to Lindsey Williams (Ph.D. candidate in Musicology) on winning the Graduate Student Essay Prize in Global Early Modern Studies, for her essay entitled “Reimagining Rossane: Voices, Style, and Role in Scarlatti’s Il gran Tamerlano”! The Graduate Center’s program in Global Early Modern Studies awards the prize to an essay written on an early modern topic written by a […]

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Prof. Emily Wilbourne awarded the 2025 Phyllis Goodheart Gordan Prize for the best book in Renaissance Studies from the Renaissance Society of America

Congratulations to Prof. Emily Wilbourne, who has won a second prize for her book, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford University Press, 2024)!  The Renaissance Society of America has awarded her book the 2025 Phyllis Goodheart Gordan Prize for the best book in Renaissance Studies. In addition, Prof. Amanda Wunder (Professor of Art History, […]

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Professor Emerita Tania León announced as a 2025 Special Merit Award Honoree ahead of the 67th GRAMMY Awards

Ahead of the 67th GRAMMY Awards on February 2nd, 2025, Professor Emerita Tania León was announced as a 2025 Special Merit Award Honoree.  Frankie Beverly, The Clash, Dr. Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal, Prince^, Roxanne Shante, and Frankie Valli were named the 2025 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honorees, and the Trustees Awards went to Erroll […]

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