Jessica Stearns (PhD, Musicology) was awarded a short-term fellowship from the New York Public Library to conduct archival research in the library's Christian Wolff Papers for her dissertation, "Indeterminate Music and the City: A Context for Christian Wolff's Notation."
Dr. David Heetderks published an article entitled "What Happens after the Primal Burn? Dissonance in Sonic Youth’s Middle Period," in Music Theory Online.
Mariachi Aguilas participated in the Nelson Elementary School’s diversity day program under the direction of Lizeth Dominguez (MA, Ethnomusicology) and the faculty mentorship of Dr. Catherine Ragland.
Andrew Vagts's paper, "Fanfare Topics as Boundary Markers in Mozart's Da Ponte Operas," won the Colvin Award for best student presentation at the Texas Society for Music Theory (February 28-29, 2020).
Arathi Govind (MM, Ethnomusicology, 2012) received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Berkeley in August of 2019 with a dissertation entitled "'An Undeniable Presence': Racial Justice Work among South Asian American Musicians." She was recently promoted to Senior Colleg
At the American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Prof. Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden received the M. Elizabeth C.