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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
