The Center congratulates Columbia Ethnomusicology PhD student Hicham Chami, who has been awarded the 2017 T. Temple Tuttle Prize for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Niagara Chapter. Mr. Chami's prizewinning paper was entitled "A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics."
The conference was held at Kent State University in Spring 2017.