Abby Anderton (Historical Musicology) successfully defended her dissertation entitled "'In den Ruinen der alten Philharmonie': Classical Music, Propaganda, and the American Cultural Agenda in West Berlin (1945-1961)."
Melanie Batoff (Historical Musicology) was awarded a Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship Dissertation Award to write her dissertation, "Re-envisioning the Visitatio sepulchri in Medieval Germany: The Intersection of Chant, Liturgy, and Pedagogy."
Alexander Cannon (Ethnomusicology) received a teaching position at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey during Fall 2011.
Alison DeSimone (Historical Musicology) is a 2011 recipient of the Handel Institute Research Grant, awarded by The Handel Institute of the United Kingdom. Earlier this fall she was awarded the Walter L. Arnstein prize for best graduate student paper given at the 2011 Midwest Conference on British Studies. Her research in the U.K. is supported by an Overseas Doctoral Fellowship from the Institute of Musical Research at the School of Advanced Study of The University of London, as well as a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant and a Rackham International Research Award. DeSimone was awarded the 2011 J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship by The American Handel Society, and the 2011 Leland Fox Award from the National Opera Association for the best scholarly paper on an opera topic. Her early research was supported by a summer research grant from the UM Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies; in 2010-11 she was awarded the Louise E. Cuyler Prize in Musicology at UM, and (with Prof. Louise K. Stein) was mentored through a Distinguished Research Partnership from the Rackham Graduate School.
Timothy Freeze (Historical Musicology) has accepted a two-year postdoctoral position at Indiana University. He willl be teaching a course there in the fall of 2011.
Jesse Johnston (Ethnomusicology) was awarded a FLAS to study Filipino during the 2011-2012 school year.
Alyson Jones (Ethnomusicology) has won a ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for her work, "Playing Out: Women Instrumentalists and Women's Ensembles in Contemporary Tunisia." She will be teaching a graduate seminar at the University of Michigan during Fall 2011.
Laura Kennedy (Historical Musicology) accepted a tenure-track position at Furman University beginning in Fall 2012.
Michael Mauskapf (Historical Musicology) was named a Graduate Student Fellow by Arts of Citizenship, a University of Michigan initiative dedicated to public scholarship. He also received a half-year Rackham Humanities Candidacy Research Fellowship, as well as a Rackham International Research Award. In Summer 2011 he will participate in CRLT's award-winning Preparing Future Faculty seminar.
Yona Stamatis (Ethnomusicology) accepted teaching positions at the University of Michigan in Fall 2011 and Kalamazoo College in Winter 2012.
In July 2011, Oxford released a collective volume, edited by Jane Fulcher and entitled The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music. It contains articles by 22 international scholars, including UM faculty Joseph Lam, Jim Borders, Charles Garrett and Jane Fulcher.
Jane Fulcher pulished several articles, including "Defining the New Cultural History of Music: Its Origins, Methodologies,
and Lines of Inquiry" and "From the Voice of the Marechal to Musique Concrete: Pierre Schaefferand the Case for Cultural History" in The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music. She also published an article in the November 2011 issue of The Musical
Quarterly called "Debussy as National Icon: From Vehicle of Vichy's Compromise to French Resistance Classic," and another in the edited volume, A Community of Scholars (Princeton University Press) entitled "Essential Exchanges."
Louise K. Stein has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College and University Teachers (awarded for use in 2012-13) for her project “Opera and the Transformation of Public Life in Naples under the Marquis del Carpio, 1683-1687.” Stein was elected a senior fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. She is also Faculty Advisor to the LSA Music program, active in the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and a faculty affiliate in Romance Language and Literatures.
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