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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 2025 | Recipient Hannah Davis-Abraham | Institution University of Toronto | Dissertation Title Expanding Analytical Approaches to Contemporary Compositions |
| Year 2025 | Recipient Rachel Hottle | Institution McGill University | Dissertation Title Elizabeth Cotten, Joni Mitchell, and the Guitar/Body Interface |
| Year 2024 | Recipient Marcel Camprubi | Institution Princeton University | Dissertation Title Lines of Thought: Notations and Histories of Music Theory from Abbāsid Baghdad (762–1055) |
| Year 2024 | Recipient Lee Cannon-Brown | Institution Harvard University | Dissertation Title Ultramodernism in Global Musical Thought, 1900–1950 |
| Year 2023 | Recipient Lina Sofia Tabak | Institution CUNY Graduate Center | Dissertation Title ’I Can’t Feel It That Way’: Theorizing Metric Complexity in Colombian Zapateo Genres |
| Year 2023 | Recipient Siavash Sabetrohani | Institution University of Chicago | Dissertation Title Music Theory between the Public Sphere and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Berlin |
| Year 2022 | Recipient Kája Lill | Institution University of Michigan | Dissertation Title "Harmonic Function: Riemann and his Czech Reception" |
| Year 2022 | Recipient Anna Yu Wang | Institution Harvard University | Dissertation Title "Intuitions and Musicalities: Theory, Analysis, and Ethnography across Two Sinitic Opera Traditions" |
| Year 2021 | Recipient Michèle Duguay | Institution CUNY Graduate Center | Dissertation Title “Gendering the Virtual Space: Sonic Femininities and Masculinities in Contemporary Top 40 Music” |
| Year 2021 | Recipient Toru Momii | Institution Columbia University | Dissertation Title “Rethinking Transpacific Boundaries: Analyzing Interculturality in Contemporary Japanese Music” |
| Year 2020 | Recipient Ben Duinker | Institution McGill University | Dissertation Title “Diversification and Post-Regionalism in North American Hip-Hop Flow” |
| Year 2020 | Recipient Leah Frederick | Institution Indiana University | Dissertation Title “Generic (Mod-7) Geometric and Transformational Approaches to Voice Leading in Tonal Music” |
| Year 2019 | Recipient Miriam Piilonen | Institution Northwestern University | Dissertation Title “Resonating Subjects: Music and Emotion in Victorian Evolutionary Thought” |
| Year 2019 | Recipient Derek Remeš | Institution Hochschule für Musik Freiburg | Dissertation Title “Thoroughbass, Chorale, and Fugue: Reconstructing J. S. Bach’s Fundamental-Regeln Through Historical Sources” |
| Year 2018 | Recipient Antares Boyle | Institution University of British Columbia | Dissertation Title “Formation and Process in Repetitive Post-Tonal Music” |
| Year 2017 | Recipient Kristen Wallintensen | Institution Western University | Dissertation Title “Fuzzy Family Ties: Familial Similarity between Melodic Contours of Different Cardinalities” |
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February 10, 2025