Each year, students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and departmental supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. This… Read more »
Awards
Recent Ph.D. graduate Nicolette van den Bogerd awarded AWSS Graduate Essay Prize
The Jacobs School of Music Department of Musicology is proud to announce that Dr. Nicolette van den Bogerd (Ph.D., 2024), currently a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, has been awarded the 2024 Graduate Essay Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies… Read more »
Doctoral Research and Language-Learning Trips to Germany and Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy
Students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and department supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. Learn more about… Read more »
Ives Festival Awarded IU Public Arts and Humanities Project Grant
In an effort spearheaded by Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Research, and Creative Activity Professor Judah Cohen and Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Peter Burkholder, the IU Jacobs School of Music has secured a $25,000 IU Public Arts and Humanities Project grant. This funding will make the upcoming Charles Ives at 150 festival accessible for Indiana… Read more »
Jack Szczuka and Olivia Woodrow Awarded 2024 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
Two Jacobs School of Music students, Jack Szczuka and Olivia Woodrow, have been named recipients of the 2024 Austin B. Caswell Awards. The awards were given to Szczuka’s paper, “Soviet Musical Orientalism: The Role of the Symphonic Works of Reinhold Glière,” and Woodrow’s paper, “An Argument On the Female Musicianship and Sexual Morality of Barbara Strozzi.”… Read more »
Sergio Ospina Romero receives Trustees Teaching Award
IU Musicology Assistant Professor Sergio Ospina Romero was one of only eleven IU Jacobs School of Music faculty, both tenure-track and non-tenure-track, to receive the prestigious 2024 Trustees Teaching Award. Selected by a five-member ad hoc committee appointed by the Jacobs School’s Faculty Issues Committee, this award recognizes Ospina Romero’s outstanding contributions in the classroom… Read more »
Doctoral Research Trip to Budapest
Each year, students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and department supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. In… Read more »
Hudson Maness and Miles Damaso Awarded 2023 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
Congratulations to two Jacobs School of Music students, Hudson Maness and Miles Damaso, recipients of our 2023 Austin B. Caswell Awards. Maness received the award for his paper “The Tragedy of the Ospedali”. The committee also recently opened the award up to podcasts and Damaso’s “Recording Techniques in Early Jazz and How They Helped Shape… Read more »
CFP: 2023 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
ELIGIBILITY Students may nominate their own projects. Alternatively, students’ projects may be nominated or encouraged by faculty members, associate instructors, and classmates. To be eligible for this year’s award, a project must have been submitted in fulfillment of course requirements for a music history class during the 2022 calendar year. You may revise the project… Read more »
Prof. Halina Goldberg Wins 2021 H. Colin Slim Award at AMS
Congratulations to IU Professor of Musicology Halina Goldberg, who has just won the 2021 H. Colin Slim Award from the American Musicological Society. Her award-winning article, titled “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” was published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Each year, the H. Colin… Read more »