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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
  2006 Collegium of Teaching Fellowship
  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 GenderConference 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, 1959–62.” 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 MusicOnline 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.