The Department of Musicology is proud to announce that Professor Halina Goldberg received the PIASA 2024 Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume for her and co-editor Nancy Sinkoff’s book Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital Centering the Periphery, which was conferred to them at an awards ceremony at the Polish Consulate in… Read more »
Faculty
Phil Ford Receives IU Presidential Arts & Humanities Fellowship
The Department of Musicology is proud to announce that Professor Phil Ford has been awarded an IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship. This highly competitive award, administered through the Office of the Vice President for Research, supports distinguished scholarly work across the university and recognizes projects that promise to make significant contributions to the arts… Read more »
Sergio Ospina Romero Receives Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
We are thrilled to share that Assistant Professor Sergio Ospina Romero has been named a recipient of Indiana University’s 2024–2025 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. This prestigious campus-wide honor recognizes early-career faculty who have demonstrated exceptional promise through their research, teaching, and creative activity. A specialist in the global circulation of music and media technologies, Professor… Read more »
Phil Ford receives Trustees Teaching Award
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 »
Halina Goldberg’s Recent Book Wins Prestigious PIASA Award
We are delighted to announce that Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery, edited by Halina Goldberg and Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University Press, 2023), has been honored with the Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA). This accolade recognizes the… Read more »
IU Musicology Hosting Series of Events on Kavalier and Clay
In one week, the IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater will present the world premiere of Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay., a new opera co-produced with the Metropolitan Opera. The show portrays two cousins in 1940s New York City—a refugee from wartime Prague and a closeted queer… Read more »
IU Musicology at AMS 2024
November 14–17, 2024 2024 Annual Meeting Website Palmer House Hilton Hotel | Chicago, Illinois Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception Saturday, Nov. 16 | 9:30–11:30 PM | Clark 5 (7th floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel) Conference Schedule View the Searchable Online Program Wednesday, November 13 Tenth New Beethoven Research Conference… Read more »
“La conquista discográfica de América Latina”, a new book by Sergio Ospina Romero
Between 1903 and 1926 the Victor Talking Machine Company deployed more than twenty sound recording expeditions to all over Latin America and the Caribbean. Sergio Ospina Romero new book, La conquista discográfica de América Latina, is the first comprehensive cultural history of those expeditions and, by way of them, of the dawn of the… 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 »
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 »