At the 2020 annual business meeting of the American Musicological Society, it was announced that the AMS Teaching Award for 2020 was awarded to The Norton Guide to Teaching Music History, edited by IU Musicology Ph.D. graduate and friend of the department, C. Matthew Balensuela. Dr. Balensuela is currently Professor of Music at DePauw University… Read more »
Awards
Prof. Ayana Smith Receives Award for Racial Justice Research
In June of this year, IU announced the creation of a new Racial Justice Research Fund designed to provide start-up funding for race-related research, workshops, and to engage members of the university community. As of September 21, the fund was supporting 31 projects and continues to accept proposals on a rolling basis. Ayana Smith, associate… Read more »
Elizabeth G. Elmi awarded 2020 IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award
We are so very pleased to share that recent IU Jacobs School of Music alumna, Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi, was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Musicological Society (IMS). In her dissertation, titled “Singing Lyric among Local Aristocratic Networks in the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples: Aesthetic and Political Meaning in the Written… Read more »
Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Austin B. Caswell Award!
The Austin B. Caswell Award was established in 1998 in honor of Professor Caswell, a devoted teacher and member of the musicology faculty at Indiana University from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. The award recognizes the two best undergraduate music history papers written at the Jacobs School of Music each year and students may… Read more »