Historical Musicology graduate student Velia Ivanova received the Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music in New Orleans, LA. The fellowship supports research at the early stages of the Ph.D. dissertation process and will allow Velia to travel to the Library of Congress and conduct research on her dissertation, “The Musical Heritage of Incarceration: The Dissemination and Management of the Lomax Collection Prison Songs,” which she is writing under the supervision of Professor Ellie Hisama.