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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Ana Beatriz Mujica, musicology student writing her dissertation with Prof. Emily Wilbourne, has just had an article titled “French Song and the Strummed Guitar: A seventeenth-century Alfabeto Manuscript at the BNF” published in the French musicology journal Revue de Musicologie. Congratulations! For more information, please see link below: https://sfmusicologie.fr/derniere-livraison
Congratulations to Prof. Emily Wilbourne, who was awarded the 2024 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award from the American Musicological Society for her book Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford University Press, 2023)! See link below for more details on Prof. Wilbourne’s book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/voice-slavery-and-race-in-seventeenth-century-florence-9780197646915?cc=us&lang=en&
A New York Times feature just appeared online about Gastr del Sol, a group that Professor David Grubbs formed in 1992 and that was active until 1998. Gastr del Sol is having a boxed set of archival recordings (including the recent find of a recording of their final concert from 1997 in the Montreal […]
Prof. David Grubbs was honored with a 2024-25 Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. Congratulations to Professor Grubbs! The 2024-25 Berlin Prize Fellows
Prof. Kofi Agawu was honored with the 2023 the Guido Adler Prize by the International Musicological Society. Congratulations to Professor Agawu! https://www.musicology.org/awards-and-programs/ims-gap/95-awards-programs/309-ims-gap2023
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Scott Burnham, who was recently named an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society. “For his contributions to the fields of musicology and music theory (whose overlap he has richly demonstrated), for his distinguished teaching career, and for his generous service to these fields and to the AMS. His path-breaking […]
Congratulations to PhD candidate Nafset Chenib, whose paper “Blindness in Tchaikovsky’s Opera Iolanta” won the AMS Greater New York Chapter’s annual student paper prize this year!
Please join us in congratulating musicologist Lidia Chang (Ph.D. 2021) who has accepted a tenure-track job at Colorado College! Lidia is a Baroque flutist and musicologist whose dissertation, “‘Leisure with Decorum’: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian Era’ was advised by Stephanie Jensen-Moulton. Congratulations Lidia!
Kris Königin (they/he), a trans musicologist and vocal instructor, will present his work “Archiving Trans, Trans in the Archive: A Methodological Framework for Studying and Locating Our Musical ‘Trancestors’” at both the American Studies Association (5 Nov) and American Musicological Society (10 Nov) national conferences in New Orleans. Using primary sources from the 1860s through […]
