Below are some of
the awards and fellowships that Musicology students have
won in the past four years. The departmental student awards
can be found here.
2007
| Jessica Bissett |
2007 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Peter Broadwell |
2007 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Kelsey Cowger |
2007 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Sara Gross |
2007-2008 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Zarah Ersoff |
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Ross Fenimore |
2007-2008 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Kariann Goldschmitt |
2006-2007 UCLA Foreign Language Acquisition Fellowship |
| Marcus Harmon |
2007 Collegium of Teaching Fellowship |
| Lindsey Johnson |
2007 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Peter Lawson |
2007 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Julianne Lindberg |
2007 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Jeremy Mikuh |
2007 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Elizabeth Morgan |
2007 Collegium of Teaching Fellowship |
| Barbara Moroncini |
2007-2008 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Stephan Pennington |
2007-2008 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Marcie Ray |
2007 Academic Senate Committee on Teaching Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award |
| Ryan Rowen |
2007 Recipient: Pauline Venable Turrill 19th Century Music Award |
| Lindsey Strand-Polyak |
2007 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
2006
| Ewelina Boczkowska |
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
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2006 Collegium of Teaching Fellowship |
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2006-2007 Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship |
| Peter Broadwell |
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Kelsey Cowger |
2006-2007 UCLA Graduate Division Research Mentorship
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Zarah Ersoff |
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Kariann Goldschmitt |
2006-2007 UCLA Foreign Language Acquisition Fellowship |
| Jonathan Greenberg |
2006-2007 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Marcus Harmon |
2006-2007 UCLA Graduate Division Research Mentorship
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Ljubica Ilic |
2006-2007 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Julianne Lindberg |
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Lisa Musca |
2006 AMS 50 Fellowship |
| Stephan Pennington |
2006 Academic Senate Committee on Teaching Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award |
| Marcie Ray |
2006-2007 UCLA Graduate Division Research Mentorship
2006 James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship |
| Marianna Ritchey |
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Erica Scheinberg |
2006-2007 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Lindsey Strand-Polyak |
2006 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
Stephanie
Vander Wel |
2006-2007 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |

Zarah Ersoff : “Radical Dissonances: Envoicing Trans Resistance at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival." Trans-:Negotiations and Resistance Conference at the University of Southern California, April 2006.
Philip Gentry: “John Cage, Paul Goodman, and the Corruption of America's Youth." 32nd National Meeting of the Society for American Music, Chicago, IL, March 2006. “Doris Day, Calamity Jane, and the Sound of Whiteness." Thinking Gender: the 16th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, UCLA, March 2006.
“Doris Day, Calamity Jane, and the Sound of Whiteness." National Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Chapter, Nashville, TN, February 2006.
Kariann Goldschmitt: review of "Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music and the Making of Modern Brazil" by Bryan McCann, Pacific Review Ethnomusicology vol. 11, Winter 2006.
Ljubica Ilic : “Echo and Narcissus: The Labyrinths of the Self." The Graduate Student Conference "Power and Image in Early Modern Europe," NYU, April 2006.
Loren Kajikawa : “Issei Spirit: The Shamisen and Japanese American Identity in the Music of Glenn Horiuchi." UCLA Japanese Studies Center Graduate Symposium, April 2006.
Elizabeth Morgan : “The Virtuous Virtuoso: Women at the Pianoforte in Jane Austen's England." Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, February 2006.
Lisa Musca : “'All disorder and wild confusion': The Chopin Preludes and the Dialectic of Tonality." Finalist for the Ingolf Dahl Competition, Joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California chapters of the AMS, UC Berkeley.
Marcie Ray : “The Problems of Aesthetics: Musical Comedy and Polite Discourse." Pacific Southwest Regional American Musicology Society Conference.
"The Phantom Voice and Invisible Feminisim in the 1964 Film of My Fair Lady." Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA.
Holley Replogle: “Coming-Of-Age in Wartime: American Propoganda and Patriotic Nationalism in Yankee Doodle Dandy." Music and the Public Sphere, UCLA Echo Conference, May 2006.
Bruce Whiteman : “The Converging Nature of Library and Museum Collecting " Rare Books and Manuscripts Pre-Conference, Austin, TX., June 2006.
The Invisible World Is in Decline, Books 1-6 to be published Fall 2006, and read at the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront, Toronto, October 2006.
2005
| Kelsey
Cowger |
2005
UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Ross
Fenimore |
2005
UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Philip
Gentry |
2005
UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Philip
Gentry |
2005
Boeing Experience Music Project Scholarship |
| Kariann
E. Goldschmitt |
2005 Summer Foreign
Language Acquisition Scholarship (FLAS) |
| Loren
Kajikawa |
2005-2006 UCLA
Graduate Division Research Mentorship |
| Olivia
Mather |
2005-2006
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Elizabeth
Morgan |
2005
UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Caroline
O'Meara |
2005-2006
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Holley
Replogle |
2005-2006 UCLA
Graduate Division Research Mentorship |
| Erica Scheinberg |
2005 Collegium of Teaching Fellowship |
| Griffin
Woodworth |
2005-2006
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |

Ewelina
Boczkowska: “Chopin's
Songs for Poland and the Formation of Polish Identity in
Exile.“ Dahl Competition, Annual Joint Meeting of
the Pacific Southwest and Northern California Chapters of
the American Musicological Society, April 2005.
Kelsey
Cowger: “Reading
Bamp-Chicka-Waa-Waa: Funk, Porn, and the Vision of John
Shaft.“ Experience Music Project Pop Music Conference,
April 2005.
Philip
Gentry: “Queers
Hear This: Translating Eminem.“ Experience Music Project
Pop Music Conference, April 2005.
Gordon
Haramaki: “'In
the Flesh as Well as in Spirit': (Meta) Physical Embodiment
in Monteverdi's Setting of Ave Maris Stella' (1610).“
Dahl Competition, Annual Joint Meeting of the Pacific Southwest
and Northern California Chapters of the American Musicological
Society, April 2005. (Winner)
Ljubica Ilic : “Singing the World's Demons." Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music "Making Music Making Meaning", Rome, Italy, July 2005.
Loren
Kajikawa:
“An
Escape From the Planet of the Apes: Accounting for
Cornelius's International Reception.“
New Sound 25 (2005).
Olivia Mather : “Taking it Easy: Country Rock and Southern Ascendancy in the 1970s." Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, D.C., October 2005.
“Taking it Easy: Country Rock and Southern Ascendancy in the 1970s." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 2005.
Lisa
Musca: “Peering into the Voice: Masks and Subjectivity in Schumann's Carnaval." Pacific
Southwest Regional American Musicological Society Conference,
February 2005.
Stephan
Pennington : “Flawless,
Real, and the Performance of Naturalization.“ Experience
Music Project Pop Music Conference, April 2005.
Marcie
Ray: “Paradoxical
Bodies in Francis Poulenc’s Art Song Mon Cadavre Est
Doux Comme Un Gant.“ Pacific Southwest Regional American
Musicological Society Conference, February 2005.
“Singing
Beyond the Operatic Narrative: Soprano as Public Voice.“
“Thinking
Gender“Conference
at UCLA, March 2005.
“Singing
Beyond the Operatic Narrative: Soprano as Public Voice.“
American
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies National Conference
in Las Vegas, March 2005.
“Simple
and Sentimental: The Operatic Soubrette in Fairground Drama.“
American
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies National Conference
in Las Vegas, March 2005.
“Singing
Beyond the Operatic Narrative: Soprano as Public Voice.“
Dahl Competition, Annual Joint Meeting of the Pacific Southwest
and Northern California Chapters of the American Musicological
Society, April 2005.
Holley
Replogle: “Classical
Crossover —‘Comfortable Cultural Products’
or ‘High-Art Outreach?’: Translations of Class
and Culture.“
Music and Journalism in the US Colloquium, Claremont College
on February 2005.
2004
| Kate
Bartel |
2004-2005
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Andrew
Berish |
2004-2005
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Sara
Gross |
2004-2005
UCLA Graduate Division Research Mentorship |
| Des
Harmon |
2004-2005
UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |
| Gordon
Haramaki |
2004-2005
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Ljubica Ilic |
2004-2005 Open Society Institute Global Supplementary
Grant |
| Loren Kajikawa |
2004-2005 UCLA Institute of American Cultures Research
Grant in Ethnic Studies |
| Caroline Polk O'Meara |
2004-2005 Collegium of University Teaching Fellow |
| Marcie
Ray |
2004-2005
UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship |

Ewelina
Boczkowska: “The World
of the Dead and the World of the Living: A Hermeneutic
Interpretation of Frederic Chopin’s ‘Funeral
March’ in light of Zbigniew Rybczynski’s
Video Adaptation.“ Hawaii International
Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu,
Hawaii, January 2004.
Ross.
J. Fenimore: "'Go West, Young
Man, and Grow with the Country': Popular Music and
the Construction of Masculine Queer Nationality." QGrad
2004: A Graduate Student Conference on Sexulaity
and Gender, UCLA, October 2004.
Charles
Hiroshi Garrett: "Chinatown,
Whose Chinatown? Defining America's Borders with
Musical Orientalism." Journal of American
Musicology Spring 2004.
Philip
Gentry:
"John
Cage, Paul Goodman, and the Corruption of America's Youth."Queer
Performance in America, 1945-1954, Yale University, April
2004.
Kariann
E. Goldschmitt: “Foreign
Bodies: Innovation, Repetition, and Corporeality in Electronic
Dance Music.“ Annual Meeting of the International
Association for the Study of Popular Music, United States
Branch. October, 2004.
Loren
Kajikawa: "If It's Asian American, Can It Be Bad? Politics,
Aesthetics, and the Music of Glenn Horiuchi." Society
for American Music Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, March
2004.
Loren
Kajikawa: "Cornelius' Point of View:
Perspectives on Globalization, Techno-Orientalism, and Cyborg
Fantasy." Nikkei
Bruin Conference on Japanese Popular Music, UCLA, March
2004.
Loren
Kajikawa: “Millenarian
Soul: Aesthetics of Transcendence in D'Angelo and Charlie
Hunter's ‘The
Root,’”
American Musicological Society Annual Conference, Seattle,
Washington, November 2004.
Olivia
Mather: “‘Cosmic
American Music’:
Country Rock and the Myth of Gram Parsons.”Society
for American Music Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, March
2004.
Caroline
O'Meara: “Downtown Overtones: Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham,
and the Art of the Guitar.”Society for American
Music Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, March 2004.
Caroline
O'Meara: Imperfect Pitch: Outsider Music and the World
of the Shaggs." Pop Conference, Experience Music Project,
Seattle, Washington, April 2004.
Marcie
Ray: “Archeology
of the Operatic Soubrette.” Thinking
Gender Conference, University of California, Los Angeles,
March 2004.
2003
| Andrew Berish |
2003-2004 Collegium of University of Teaching Fellow |
| Ewelina
Boczkowska |
2003-2004
UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship
2003-2004 Polish and Slavic Center Scholarship |
| Maria
Cizmic |
2003-2004
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Ross
Fenimore |
2003
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies |
| Gordon
Haramaki |
2003
Academic Senate Committee on Teaching Distinguished
Teaching Assistant Award
2003-2004 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Loren
Kajikawa |
Foreign
Language Acquisition Scholarship (FLAS), 2003-2004.
Herbert and Helen Kawahara Fellowship, 2003 |
| James
Kennaway |
2003-2004
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Louis
Niebur |
2003-2004
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| Caroline
O’Meara |
2003-2004
UCLA Graduate Division Research Mentorship |
| Eva
Sobolevski |
2003-2004
Lenart Travel Fellowship |

Andrew
Berish: ”Borrowed Memories of the
American South: Culture and Identity in Duke Ellington’s
Deep South Suite.” Western Humanities Alliance
annual conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah,
October 2003.
Tanya
Bertram: “’Hit
Me!’:
James Brown, Muhammad Ali and Constructions of Black
Masculinity at ’The Rumble in
the Jungle’.” International
Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), US
National Conference, Los Angeles, September, 2003.
Ewelina
Boczkowska:“’Believing
in Things One Does Not Understand:’ Jamiroquai’s
'Black Capricorn Day,' Stevie Wonder’s 'Superstition,'
and the Culture of Appropriation." International
Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM),
US National Conference, Los Angeles, September, 2003.
Maria
Cizmic:
“Music, Memory, and War: Górecki’s Third
Symphony and the Politics of Remembering.” Western
Humanities Alliance conference, University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, Utah, October 2003.
.“Two
Women, Two Voices: Musical and Visual Representations of
Pain and Illness in HBO’s Wit and Górecki’s
Third Symphony.” Stanford University Film Music Conference
“Reviewing the Canon: Borrowed Music in Films,”
Palo Alto, California, May 2003.
J.
Lester Feder: “The ’Genius’ and ’Brother
Ray’: Race, Genre, and Historical Memory in the Early
Crossover Recordings of Ray Charles, 195962.” Society
for Ethnomusicology, Estes Park, CO, October 2002.
Loren Kajikawa: “’I
Know I Sound Strange But I Really Mean It’: Irony,
Pleasure and Criticism in Bootsy’s Love Ballads.” International
Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), US
National Conference,
Los Angeles, September, 2003.
Loren
Kajikawa: "Playing out: Jazz/Creative
Music and the Afro-Asian Connection."
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Miami,
Florida, October 2003.
Loren
Kajikawa:
Panel chair, “Global and Local Flows.” IASPM-US,
Los Angeles, September, 2003.
Loren
Kajikawa. “Glenn
Horiuchi’s Bad Jazz: Towards an Asian American
Music Criticism,” Association for Asian American
Studies National Conference, San Francisco, May, 2003.
Olivia
Carter Mather: “Hildegard’s
Music” Online
Reference Book for Medieval Studies, in “Music,” ed.
Cynthia J. Cyrus.
Olivia
Carter Mather: “Jesus is Just
Alright: The Jesus Movement and the Counterculture
in ‘70s Rock” International Association
for the Study of Popular Music, United States Chapter,
UCLA Sept. 19, 2003.
Olivia
Carter Mather: “Temporality
as Theology: Time and Eternity in John Tavener’s
Fall and Resurrection.” 37th Annual Contemporary
Music Festival, Indiana State University, Terre Haute,
IN, Oct. 30, 2003.
Caroline
Polk O’Meara: “The Raincoats:
Breaking Down Punk Rock's Masculinities.” Popular
Music (Fall 2003).
Caroline
Polk O’Meara: “Between
Motown and Motor City: Funkadelic and Black Rock
(1968-1970).”
IASPM-US 2003, Broadening the Playlists. IASPM-US Annual
conference, Los Angeles, California. (September 20,
2003).
Caroline
Polk O’Meara “Imperfect
Pitch: Inept Performances and the World of the Shaggs.”
IASPM 2003, Practising Popular Music. IASPM International
bi-annual conference, Montreal, Canada. (July 5, 2003).
Stephan
Pennington:
“’Maculine Women! Feminine Men!’: Truth,
Lies, the Voice and Cross-Gender Performance.” International
Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch National
Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 18-21 September 2003.
Stephan
Pennington: “Fear of the Police
State: Cold War Politics, Dystopias, and New Wave
Music.” That 80’s Conference, New York University, New York
City, NY, 28 February - 1 March 2003.
Eva
Sobolevski:
“Musical Rememberings: Chopin's Scherzo op.20,”
WesternHumanities Conference, Salt Lake City, October 2003.
Stephanie VanderWel: “A
Feminist Spirituality: The Temporal Play
and Poetic Language Of Meredith Monk’s Madwoman’s
Visions.” Feminist Theory and Music 7, July
2003, Bowling Green, Ohio.
2002
Loren Kajikawa: “Review
of The Motion Picture 8 Mile.” ECHO,
Volume 4, Issue 2, December 2002.
Olivia
CarterMather and J. Lester Feder: “Introduction” to “O
Brother,
Why Now? A Folk Revival Symposium.” Ed. Olivia
Carter Mather and J. Lester
Feder. ECHO: a music-centered journal (Fall 2002).
Stephan
Pennington: “k.d. lang redux:
Bringing Transgender Perspectives to Musicology.” International
Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch
National
Conference, Cleveland, OH, 10-13 October 2002.