Two doctoral students in musicology have recently been awarded fellowships.

Jessica Kizzire will receive the University of Iowa’s Ballard Seashore Fellowship, which provides “protected and supported time” for doctoral candidates to focus on their research and the writing of their dissertations. Jessica will be completing “Hearing Wonderland: Aural Adaptation and Carroll’s Classic Tale,” in which she will critically examine the role of sound in multimedia adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s story in film, ballet, and other multimedia formats.

Michele Aichele has been awarded an American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowship. The AAUW, founded in 1881, is dedicated to promoting equity and education for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. In her dissertation, “Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) and ‘The New Woman’ in the United States,” Michele considers why the composer’s music became so popular, inspiring hundreds of American Chaminade music clubs, and explores how traditional female roles related to and conflicted with Chaminade’s public persona and career.