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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hannah Davis-Abraham | University of Toronto | Expanding Analytical Approaches to Contemporary Compositions |
| 2025 | Rachel Hottle | McGill University | Elizabeth Cotten, Joni Mitchell, and the Guitar/Body Interface |
| 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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February 10, 2025