Phil Ford, associate professor of music in musicology, has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Trustees Teaching Award. He is one of only a handful of faculty members—tenure-track and non-tenure-track—across the Jacobs School to receive this honor, which celebrates excellence and dedication in teaching. Awardees are selected by a five-member ad hoc committee… Read more »
Month: April 2025
Travis Whaley Wins Irene Alm Memorial Prize from the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
We are thrilled to announce that Ph.D. candidate Travis Whaley has been awarded the Irene Alm Memorial Prize by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) for his paper “The Coexistence of Organ Tablature and Thoroughbass in the Seventeenth Century.” This prestigious award recognizes the best student presentation at the SSCM’s annual spring conference. Named in… Read more »
Yishai Rubin Awarded OVPIA Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant for Research in London
We are excited to share that Yishai Rubin, a Ph.D. student in musicology, has been awarded a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant from IU’s Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (OVPIA). The $3,500 grant will support Rubin’s research trip to the United Kingdom in summer 2025, where he will conduct archival work at the British… Read more »
Kathryn Reilly Receives 2025 Austin B. Caswell Award for Cantonese Opera Research
Jacobs School of Music student Kathryn Reilly has been named recipient of the 2025 Austin B. Caswell Award. The award was given for Reilly’s paper, “Cantonese Opera Singers—Composers and Masters of Communication: The Role of Linguistic Tones and Vocal Improvisation in Cantonese Opera.” The committee was impressed by the creative topic and argument. They described… Read more »