Student Presentation Award Recipients
The Student Presentation Award is given annually to a graduate or undergraduate music student for a scholarly presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory.
* Indicates Honorable Mention
| Year | Name | Institution | Paper title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Tori M. Vilches | Indiana University | "'Sex Sells': A Decolonial Analysis of Purplewashing and Sexual Narrative in the Women of Reggaeton" |
| 2024 | Sam Falotico* | Eastman School of Music | "'What’s in an OP?': Narrative, KonoSuba, and the 3/4 Prechorus" |
| 2024 | Juan Patricio Saenz* | Harvard University | "Alfabeto, punto, and diapason: the guitar as an instrument of music theory in seventeenth-century Iberia" |
| 2024 | Rina Sugawara* | University of Chicago | "Fantasy and Formenlehre in Imperial Japan" |
| 2023 | Nicole Cosme-Clifford | Yale University | "Play a Song from the Jukebox" |
| 2023 | Ryan Galik | Michigan State University | “Don't Pop the Bubble: Intersections of Ambient Music, Attention, Expectation, and Flow in Tim Hecker's Virgins” |
| 2022 | Rachel Gain | Yale University | “Beyond the Audible: Embodied Choreographic Syncopations in Rhythm Tap Dance” |
| 2022 | Audrey Slote | University of Chicago | “Chiasmus as Critique: Dallapiccola’s Ulisse and the Political Resonances of Musical Form” |
| 2021 | Anna Yu Wang | Harvard University | "Perceiving banyan: Temporal Syntax Unbeholden to Meter" |
| 2020 | Lina Sofia Tabak | The Graduate Center, CUNY | "Pulse Dissonance in Colombian Currulao" |
| 2019 | Catrina Kim | Eastman School of Music | "Fragments and Frames in the Early Romantic Era" |
| 2019 | Jeremy Tatar | McGill University | "Metric Transformations in Hip-Hop and R&B Sampling Practice" |
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January 30, 2026