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Student Presentation Award

The chapter will award a prize for the best presentation (paper or poster) at a chapter meeting by a student during an academic year. Candidates must be enrolled at a college or university within the Southeast Chapter, and student members of the chapter in good standing. Previous winners in the paper or poster division are not eligible to compete in the same division. Those wishing to be considered for the prize should so indicate immediately upon receiving notification that their paper has been accepted by the program committee. No later than 24 hours before the meeting, candidates must send the Chapter President an electronic file with the full text of their papers. The submitted text should be the same as the one presented during the meeting. The committee reserves the right to make no award if in its judgment there are no suitable entries, or it may make two awards (splitting the award money, if need be) in the case of equally strong presentations.

Previous Awardees

2024–2025Destiny MeadowsUNC-Chapel Hill “Active Broadcasts: Physical Fitness and Radio in 1970s Chicago”
2021–2022Michael CarlsonUNC-Chapel Hill“Aquilino Coppini, A New Orpheus: Voicing the Erotic Desires of Mary Magdalen.”
2020–2021 Andrew MoenningDuke University“‘The Dialectic of Stringency and Freedom’: Morse Code Structures in Gerhard Stäbler’s Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco.”
2019–2020 Kendall Winter HatchUNC-Chapel Hill“Melinda and Her Sisters: A Case for Pageantry.”
2018–2019Jamie BlakeUNC-Chapel Hill “Transnationalism in Print: Russian Music and Musicians in Musical America, 1917–1939”
2017–2018 Imani MosleyDuke University“‘A Stuttering Primer for Infants’: The Press and Public Reception of Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana in the Coronation Year”
2016–2017   Kirsten Santos RutschmanDuke University“Folksong Against the National Grain: Inventing Pan-Scandinavian Identity”
2015–2016  Gina BombolaUNC-Chapel Hill “Scandalous Sight, Sublime Sound: Opera and Film Censorship in I Dream Too Much (1935)”
2015–2016
(Honorable Mention) 		Jeremy SextonWake Forest University“Who is Fair Oriana?”
2014–2015Jennifer WalkerUNC-Chapel Hil“‘A Frenchman from Provence by Birth and a Jew by Religion’: Darius Milhaud, Esther de Carpentras, and the French Interwar Identity Crisis”
2013–2014  David VanderHammUNC-Chapel Hill“Broadcasting ‘Hillbilly’ Virtuosity: Showcasing Musical Skill in a Down-Home Way”
2012–2013 Samuel BrannonUNC-Chapel Hill“‘Full of a Thousand Beautiful and Graceful Inventions’: The Compilation of Gardano’s 1545 Willaert Motet Print”
2011–2012 Catherine HughesUNC-Chapel Hill“Music as a Commodity: Prestige, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism in Brussels before World War I”
2010–2011Kristen TurnerUNC-Chapel Hill‘I, Too, Hear America Singing’: Secular Songs in the Civil Rights Movement”
2008–2009Christopher WellsUNC-Chapel Hill“An die ferne ‘Freude Finale’: Traces of Beethoven’s Lieder in the Finale of the Ninth Symphony”
2007–2008Kevin BartigUNC-Chapel Hill“A Theory of Opposites: Audiovisual Dissonance in Prokofiev and Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible”

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