In February 2024 we received a total of fifty-seven applications for the IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award (IMSODA2024), representing twenty countries and twelve different languages—a new record! The IMS decided to award two prizes this year, one each for doctoral dissertations completed in 2022 and 2023, as well as four honorable mentions:
Award Winners
Devon Borowski, “Navigating Voices: Song, History, and Humanity in the British Imperial Project, 1770–1836,” University of Chicago (US), 2023
Francesco Milella, “Beyond Italian Opera: Manuel García in Postcolonial Mexico City (1826–1828),” University of Cambridge (UK), 2022
1st Honorable Mention
Giulia Accornero, “Measured Music: Diagrammatics of Musical Time from Baghdad to Paris, 850–1350,” Harvard University (US), 2023
2nd Honorable Mention
Alexander Cowan, “Unsound: A Cultural History of Music and Eugenics,” Harvard University (US), 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,” University of Cambridge (UK), 2022
4th Honorable Mention
Júlia Durand, “Ferramenta, retalho ou papel de parede: a música de catálogo na criação audiovisual online,” Nova FCSH Lisbon (PT), 2023
