As fall classes get underway, we take a moment to share some of the activities our students and faculty pursued over the summer: Marian Wilson Kimber, Trevor Harvey, Kelsey McGinnis, Cody Norling, Nathan Platte, Christine Getz.

Professor Christine Getz has received a 2016 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society.

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. Michele Aichele has been awarded an American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowship.

Prof. Jennifer Iverson, who has been spending 2015-2016 as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, has been interviewed about her research. 

University of Iowa students and faculty traveled to Drake University in Des Moines to present papers at the second Iowa Musicology Day on Saturday, March 26. Professor Marian Wilson Kimber chaired the program committee for the event.

Sarah Lucas, a Ph.D. student in musicology, has won a U.S. Student Fulbright Award to conduct dissertation research at the Béla Bartók Archive and National Széchényi Library in Budapest, Hungary, during the 2016–2017 academic year.

Prof. Eric Saylor will host the annual Iowa Musicology Day conference at Drake University in Des Moines on Saturday, March 26, between 9 and 5:30 in Room 204 of the Fine Arts Center. The conference brings together musicologists and students from Iowa schools to share their research.  All are welcome to attend.

A quartet of the Anchiskhati Choir, the world’s foremost practitioners of Georgian traditional choral music, is visiting Iowa City on February 25–26. The visit is the first stop of a US tour connected with a symposium at Yale University. On February 25 at 4:30 pm, they will give a lecture-demonstration entitled “An Introduction to Georgian Traditional Music” at the University Capitol Center Recital Hall (1670 UCC) in Old Capitol Town Centre, assisted by Matthew Arndt of the University of Iowa School of Music.

Iowa faculty have recently been active in publishing scholarship, presenting papers, and developing new pedagogies: Christine Getz, Trevor Harvey, Michael Eckert, Jennifer Iverson, Marian Wilson Kimber, and Matthew Arndt.

Gregory Newbold, an MA student in musicology, spent the summer of 2015 reading five recent titles from the Film Score Guide series (Scarecrow Press).