Student Section
Bios and news items for graduate students
The 2006 International Association for the Study of Popular Musics (US) Graduate Student Paper Prize has been awarded to Columbia PhD student
Maria Sonevytsky for her paper "Leather, Metal, Wild Dances: Ukrainian Pop's Victory at the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest and the Politics of Auto-Exoticism."
Congratulations to Maria!
Congratulations to
David
Novak, Amanda Minks, and
Daniel Thompson,
all of whom defended PhD dissertations this year. Amanda Minks
will be teaching anthropology in the Honors College of the
University of Oklahoma next year; David Novak will be teaching
ethnomusicology at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Graduate students in the Columbia Ethnomusicology
PhD program have won numerous competitive dissertation research
fellowships this year, including two International Dissertation
Research Fellowships from the Social Science Research
Council (our 5th and 6th SSRC awards since 2002),
Fulbright-IIE and Fulbright-Hays fellowships (our 6th
and 7th since 2002), a Wenner-Gren Foundation
Dissertation Improvement Fellowship (our second since 2002),
an IREX Eastern European Studies Fellowship,
two full-year and one summer FLAS (Foreign
Language and Area Studies) fellowship read more »
