Scholars who have completed their doctoral dissertation in the field of music in 2022 and 2023 are eligible to apply for the IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award 2024. Dissertations may be written in any language. The award, which includes a cash prize, is overseen by an international committee led by members of the IMS Directorium. Applicants must be IMS members (click here to join or renew your membership). The application deadline was February 20, 2024.
Winners of the IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award
Award Winner: Devon Borowski, “Navigating Voices: Song, History, and Humanity in the British Imperial Project, 1770–1836” (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 2023).
Award Winner: Francesco Milella, “Beyond Italian Opera: Manuel García in Postcolonial Mexico City (1826–1828)” (Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 2022).
1st Honorable Mention: Giulia Accornero, “Measured Music: Diagrammatics of Musical Time from Baghdad to Paris, 850–1350” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2023).
2nd Honorable Mention: Alexander Cowan, “Unsound: A Cultural History of Music and Eugenics,” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2023).
3rd Honorable Mention: Paul Newton-Jackson, “Georg Philipp Telemann and the Invention of ‘The Polish Style’: Musical Polishness in the Early Modern German Imagination” (Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 2022).
4th Honorable Mention: Júlia Durand, “Ferramenta, retalho ou papel de parede: a música de catálogo na criação audiovisual online” (Lisbon: Nova FCSH, 2023).
Committee: Paulo Ferreira de Castro (PT, chair), Evi Nika-Sampson (GR), Britta Sweers (CH), Leonardo Waisman (AR), Fumitaka Yamauchi (TW)
The deadline for applications was February 20, 2024.
Award Winner: Peter Asimov, “Comparative Philology, French Music, and the Composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to Messiaen” (Cambridge: Clare College, 2020).
1st Honorable Mention: Alana Mailes, “Mobility, Diplomacy, and Musical Exchange between England and Venice, 1600–1660” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2021).
2nd Honorable Mention: Timothy Daly, “From Counterpoint to Composition in the Early L’homme armé Mass” (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2020).
Committee: Paulo Ferreira de Castro (PT), Ralf Martin Jäger (DE), Evi Nika-Sampson (GR, chair), Jason Stoessel (AU)
The deadline for applications was February 15, 2023.
Award Winner: Elizabeth Grace Elmi, “Singing Lyric among Local Aristocratic Networks in the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples: Aesthetic and Political Meaning in the Written Records of an Oral Practice” (Bloomington: Indiana University, 2019). Published as an open access publication: Elizabeth Grace Elmi, Singing Lyric in the Kingdom of Naples: Written Records of an Oral Practice (Mainz: Schott Campus, 2023).
1st Honorable Mention: Daniel K. S. Walden, “The Politics of Tuning and Temperament: Transnational Exchange and the Production of Music Theory in 19th-Century Europe, Asia, and North America” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2019).
2nd Honorable Mention: Arwin Quiñones Tan, “Music, Labor, and Capitalism in Manila’s Transforming Colonial Society in the Late Nineteenth Century” (Manila: University of the Philippines, 2018).
Committee: Egberto Bermúdez (CO, chair), Andrea Bombi (ES), Jen-yen Chen (TW), John Griffiths (AU), Laura Tunbridge (UK), Christiane Wiesenfeldt (DE)
The deadline for applications was December 31, 2019. The award was generously supported by the Strecker-Stiftung.
Award Winner: Shingkwan Woo, “The Ceremonial Music of Zhu Zaiyu” (New Brunswick: The State University of New Jersey, 2017).
1st Honorable Mention: Yen Jen Yvonne Liao, “Western Music and Municipality in 1930s and 1940s Shanghai” (London: University of London, 2016).
2nd Honorable Mention: Valentina Anzani, “Antonio Bernacchi (1685–1756): virtuoso e maestro di canto bolognese” (Bologna: University of Bologna, 2018).
Committee: Egberto Bermúdez (CO, chair), Andrea Bombi (ES), Jen-yen Chen (TW), John Griffiths (AU), Laura Tunbridge (UK), Christiane Wiesenfeldt (DE)
The deadline for applications was June 20, 2018. The award was generously supported by the Strecker-Stiftung.
Current IMSODA Committee
Chair: Paulo Ferreira de Castro (PT)
Members: Evi Nika-Sampson (GR), Britta Sweers (CH), Leonardo Waisman (AR), Fumitaka Yamauchi (TW)
Applications
Please fill in the IMSODA application form below and include
- your doctoral dissertation;
- an abstract of not more than 1,000 words (in English);
- a recommendation letter from your dissertation supervisor or another academic with a detailed knowledge of your dissertation (in English); and
- your short CV (in English).
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