The musicology program proudly recognizes our fall 2018 graduates: Ph.D. recipients, Dr. Sarah Lucas and Dr. Hang Nguyen, and master’s degree recipients, Lily Gaetgaeow and C.A. Norling.

The first half of the semester has been especially productive. Here are a few of the activities that students and faculty have been pursuing: Marian Wilson Kimber, Matthew Arndt, Cody Norling, Andrew Tubbs, Lisa Mumme, Sarah Lucas, Trevor Harvey, and Nathan Platte.

Students and faculty have already contributed to a variety of conferences this summer: Cody Norling, Andrew Tubbs, Megan Small, Nathan Platte, Kelsey McGinnis, Sarah Lucas, Michele Aichele, Jessica Kizzire, and Marian Wilson Kimber.

Dr. Sarah Suhadolnik was among the presenters who gathered in Cleveland, Ohio for the “Beyond Genre: Jazz as Popular Music” conference at Case Western Reserve University in April. Dr. Suhadolnik’s talk, “Friendly Meetings Abroad: Navigating Geographies of Genre on Basin Street” used the 2018 “United We Swing” release by New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Wynton Marsalis Septet as a springboard for her place-based examination of popular arrangements of Spencer Williams’s “Basin Street Blues,” a tin-pan-alley-hit-turned-jazz-standard.

Aaron S. Allen presents on “Musical Trees,” April 27. Aaron S. Allen is director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program and Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he also served as the institution’s first Academic Sustainability Coordinator.

The musicology faculty and students at the University of Iowa are looking forward to the fourth annual Iowa Musicology Day, to be held on April 14. Participants include: Lisa Mumme, Nathan Platte, Marian Wilson Kimber, Megan Small, and Cody Norling.

Two musicology Ph.D. students have received special recognition for their ongoing research. Kelsey McGinnis accepted a Graduate Research Excellence Award from UI’s Research Council and Graduate College. Hang Nguyen, whose dissertation explores the use of social media by American orchestras and opera companies, received a Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship.

Wednesday, March 21, 4 pm, in Vox 2. In cooperation with the European Studies program of the University of Iowa, the Musicology and Music Theory Colloquium will present a special lecture by Anna Leonard, Lecturer and curator Curator of European Art at the Smart Museum of Art of the University of Chicago. Leonard’s presentation is entitled “Present at the Creation: The Romantic Iconography of the Turned Canvas.”

Musicology students and faculty attended the annual meeting of the Society for American Music, held in Kansas City, February 28 through March 4: Sarah Suhadolnik, Marian Wilson Kimber, Natalie Landowski, and Andrew Tubbs.

Katherine E. Ramsey, MA in Musicology (2015), has taken a position as the Research and Instructional Librarian for Music, the Arts, and the Performing Arts at Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library at the University of Alabama.