SMT-40 Dissertation Award Recipients

This yearly award, made possible by the SMT-40 campaign, is intended to recognize and foster excellent research in music theory by helping highly qualified Ph.D. students to complete their dissertations.

Year	Recipient	Institution	Dissertation Title
2024	Marcel Camprubi	Princeton University	Lines of Thought: Notations and Histories of Music Theory from Abbāsid Baghdad (762–1055)
2024	Lee Cannon-Brown	Harvard University	Ultramodernism in Global Musical Thought, 1900–1950
2023	Lina Sofia Tabak	CUNY Graduate Center	’I Can’t Feel It That Way’: Theorizing Metric Complexity in Colombian Zapateo Genres
2023	Siavash Sabetrohani	University of Chicago	Music Theory between the Public Sphere and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Berlin
2022	Kája Lill	University of Michigan	"Harmonic Function: Riemann and his Czech Reception"
2022	Anna Yu Wang	Harvard University	"Intuitions and Musicalities: Theory, Analysis, and Ethnography across Two Sinitic Opera Traditions"
2021	Michèle Duguay	CUNY Graduate Center	“Gendering the Virtual Space: Sonic Femininities and Masculinities in Contemporary Top 40 Music”
2021	Toru Momii	Columbia University	“Rethinking Transpacific Boundaries: Analyzing Interculturality in Contemporary Japanese Music”
2020	Ben Duinker	McGill University	“Diversification and Post-Regionalism in North American Hip-Hop Flow”
2020	Leah Frederick	Indiana University	“Generic (Mod-7) Geometric and Transformational Approaches to Voice Leading in Tonal Music”
2019	Miriam Piilonen	Northwestern University	“Resonating Subjects: Music and Emotion in Victorian Evolutionary Thought”
2019	Derek Remeš	Hochschule für Musik Freiburg	“Thoroughbass, Chorale, and Fugue: Reconstructing J. S. Bach’s Fundamental-Regeln Through Historical Sources”
2018	Antares Boyle	University of British Columbia	“Formation and Process in Repetitive Post-Tonal Music”
2017	Kristen Wallintensen	Western University	“Fuzzy Family Ties: Familial Similarity between Melodic Contours of Different Cardinalities”

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October 21, 2024