Students taking Music Humanities through Justice-in-Education Initiative recognized with Core Scholars Awards
Two students from the Music Humanities course at Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island, offered through Columbia's Justice-in-Education Initiative, were recognized by the Core Scholars Program for their exceptional essays on their experience in the Core.
The Department warmly congratulates Nina Fukuoka, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Horror as Multimedia Genre" on April 14, 2024.
Dr. Finola Merivale (DMA '23) and Dr. Magdalena Baczewska have been announced as 2025–26 Fellows for the Institute of Ideas & Imagination in Paris, France.
Prof. Mara Helmuth (1994 Composition DMA, currently on the faculty of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) and Prof. Katherine Balch (2022 Composition DMA, now on the faculty of the Yale School of Music) were awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships for their music composition proposals.
Zara Ali (CC '18) presented a new chamber opera, What Joy, at Transformation in Tischlerei at Deutsche Oper Berlin on April 30, 2025.
The Department warmly congratulates Grant Woods, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled "'By Right of Inheritance': Empire and Identity in the First British Folk Revival" on May 2, 2025.
The Arabic translation of The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria (Chicago University Press 2022) was published by Dar Attakafa and the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME).
Professor George Lewis was nominated as a 2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music for his opera The Comet.
He has been appointed an Associate Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies.
Velia Ivanova has been appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor in Musicology in the Department of Music at Wake Forest University for the 2025-2026 academic year.
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Two students from the Music Humanities course at Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island, offered through Columbia's Justice-in-Education Initiative, were recognized by the Core Scholars Program for their exceptional essays on their experience in the Core.