About the Award:
More information about the Barry S. Brooks Dissertation Fellowship is forthcoming.
History of Award Winners:
| Year | Name | Dissertation Title | Area |
| 1990 | Barbara A. Renton | The Musical Culture of Eighteenth-Century Bohemia, with Special Emphasis on the Music Inventories of Osek and the Knights of the Cross | PhD |
| 1991 | Yiu-Kwong Chung | Henze’s Five Scenes from the Snow Country | DMA |
| 1991 | David Stern | The Use of Accidental Inflections and the Musical System in Josquin’s Period, ca. 1480-1520 | PhD |
| 1992 | Zdenek D. Skoumal | Structure in the Late Instrumental Music of Leos Janacek | PhD |
| 1992 | Heather Platt | Text-Music Relationships in the Lieder of Johannes Brahms | PhD |
| 1993 | Emilio Ros Fabregas | The Manuscript Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, M. 454; Study and Edition in the Context of the Iberian and Continental Manuscript Traditions | PhD |
| 1993 | Sylvia Kahan | The Princesse Edmund de Polignac (1865-1943): A Documentary Chronicle of Her Life and Artistic Circle | DMA |
| 1994 | Bridget Conrad | The Sources of Jolivet’s Musical Language and His Relationships with Varèse and Messiaen | PhD |
| 1995 | Antoni Pizá | The Tradition of Autobiography in Music | PhD |
| 1995 | L. Chandler Carter, II | The Progress in The Rake’s Return; composition “No Easy Walk to Freedom: An Opera Based on the Life of Nelson Mandela” | PhD |
| 1996 | Diana Hallman | The French Grand Opera La Juive (1835): A Socio-Historical Study | PhD |
| 1996 | Ellie Hisama | Gender, Politics, and Modernist Music: Analyses of Five Compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion Bauer (1887-1955) | PhD |
| 1997 | Thomas Sauer | Texture in Robert Schumann’s First-Decade Piano Works | DMA |
| 1998 | Albin Zak | The Poetics of Rock Composition: Multitrack Recording as Compositional Practice | PhD |
| 1999 | Benedict Weisser | Notational Practice in Contemporary Music: A Critique of Three Compositional Models (Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Brian Ferneyhough); his compositions are “Emma G.” and ” Napeague” | PhD |
| 2000 | Elliott Hurwitt | W.C. Handy as Music Publisher: Career and Reputation | PhD |
| 2001 | Carolyn Guzki | American Opera at the Metropolitan, 1910-1935: A Contextual History and Critical Survey of Selected Works | PhD |
| 2001 | Alexander Stewart | Composition and Performance in Contemporary New York City Big Bands (1989-1999) | PhD |
| 2002 | Andrew White | Good Invention Repaid with Interest: The Importance of Borrowing in Bach’s Compositional Practice | PhD |
| 2002 | Marc Thorman | Speech and Text in Compositions by John Cage, 1950-1992″ and his composition “I Am Right, You Are Wrong” | PhD |
| 2003 | David Garcia | Arsenio Rodriguez: A Black Cuban Musician in the Dance Music Milieus of Havana, New York City, and Los Angeles | PhD |
| 2004 | Philip Stoecker | Studies in Post-Tonal Symmetry: A Transformational Approach | PhD |
| 2004 | Marva Duerksen | Organicism and Musical Analysis: Three Case Studies | PhD |
| 2005 | Channan Willner | Durational Pacing in Handel’s Instrumental Works: The Nature of Expansion in the music of the High Baroque | PhD |
| 2006 | Catherine Ragland | Ni Aquí ni Allá (Neither Here nor There): Música Norte?a and the Mexican Working-Class Diaspora | PhD |
| 2007 | Kyle Adams | A New Theory of Chromaticism from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century | PhD |
| 2008 | Jadranka Važanová | Svadobné nôty: Ceremonial Wedding Tunes in the Context of Slovak Traditional Culture | PhD |
| 2009 | Quynh Nguyen | An Analysis of Olivier Messiaen’s Last Piano Solo Work: Les Petites Esquisses d’oiseaux. | DMA |
| 2010 | Jonas Westover | A Study and Reconstruction of the Passing Show of 1914: The American Musical Revue and Its Development in the Early Twentieth Century | PhD |
| 2011 | John Wriggle | Chappie Willet and Popular Music Arranging in Swing Era New York. | PhD |
| 2012 | Andrew Pau | An Analytical Study of Bizet’s Carmen: Melody, Text Setting, Harmony, and Form | PhD |
| 2013 | Nathan Bowen | Mobile Phones, Group Improvisation, and Music: Trends in Digital Socialized Music Making | PhD |
| 2014 | Drew Nobile | A Structural Approach to the Analysis of Rock Music | PhD |
| 2014 | Jordan Stokes | Music and Genre in Film: Aesthetics and Ideology | PhD |
