Dr. Julia Hamilton has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.

The Department warmly congratulates Sonja Wermager, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled “Robert Schumann and 'the Artist's Highest Goal': Religion, Romanticism, and Nation in the Late Choral Works” on May 2, 2023.

Dr. Qingfan Jiang has accepted the position of Assistant Professor in Musicology at Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University).

Professor Walter Frisch has been selected as a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

In January 2023, Susan Boynton became Director of The University Seminars, an ongoing community of partnerships each of which is constituted by scholars from multiple academic departments and disciplines, often including experts from outside academia, and is devoted to the study of an institution, practice, or issue of theoretical and/or practical importance.

Jonathan Ligrani has been appointed Instructor of Musicology at the University of Alabama, beginning January 2023.

Graduate students Sonja Wermager and Callum Blackmore have both published chapters in the recent volume "Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall."

The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Lucy Turner, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled “Rethinking Beethoven’s Middle Style: Form, Time, and Disruption in the Chamber Music of 1806-15” on June 8, 2022.