Emily Roman (BA in Music; Emphasis in Music History) won a University Writing Award for her essay, “Nietzsche’s Wagner.” She will be pursuing a master's degree in musicology at Michigan State University in the fall.

Júlia Coelho (PhD, Musicology) published a co-authored chapter "The Art of Liminality," in The Liminal Loop, ed. Timothy Carson. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2022. Her portion of the chapter is entitled "Sea, Saudade, and Liminality” and concerns 13th-century Galician-Portuguese cantigas d'amigo by Martin Codax from Pergamiño Vindel.

Emily Hicks (PhD, Musicology) received a grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to conduct dissertation research in Augsburg this summer. Her dissertation is entitled, "Music of Augsburg: The Cultural Impact of Civic Musicians in Early Modern Germany."

Dr. James ("Chip") Parsons (PhD, musicology, 1992) was appointed Distinguished Professor by Missouri State University, where he has taught since 1995. The award is granted in recognition of excellence in research.

Elizabeth Durrant (MA, Musicology, 2021) published a review of Rae Linda Brown's The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price in Notes 78/3 (2022). Click here for more information.

Dr. Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinen published her book, From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution with Oxford University Press.

Brian Anderson will participate in a roundtable entitled "Rethinking Research in the Age of Digital Humanities!" at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.

Jessica Stearns (PhD, Musicology) presented her paper “Analyzing Christian Wolff’s Indeterminate Music through the Process of Performance” at the University of Toronto's symposium "Dialogues: Analysis and Performance" (Oct. 7-9, 2021).

Peter Kohanski (PhD, Musicology) presented his paper, Water Music, Fireworks, and Royal Public Image: Re-evaluating Handel's Instrumental Music in London" at the Handel Institute's 2021 conference, "Handel: Interactions and Influences (November 20-21, 2021).

Júlia Coelho (PhD, Musicology; DMA, Vocal Studies) published an article, "Claudio Monteverdi and l’Orfeo, Favola in Musica: Character Construction and Depiction of Dmotion" in Philomusica on-line 17.1.