The Department of Music is pleased to share that alum and teaching fellow Devon Borowski has won the 2024 Dissertation Award from the International Musicological Society for his dissertation “Navigating Voices: Song, History, and Humanity in the British Imperial Project, 1770–1836,” University of Chicago (US), 2023.
The International Musicological Society received a total of fifty-seven applications for the prize, representing a record twenty countries and twelve different languages.
Alexander Cowan, who will be joining us as Assistant Professor of Musicology in the 2025-26 academic year, received honorable mention for his dissertation “Unsound: A Cultural History of Music and Eugenics,” Harvard University (US), 2023.