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 presentations OR they may give the Chapter President three printed copies of their presentations on the morning of the meeting.
The Chapter President will on an annual basis appoint no fewer than three regular members of the chapter to a Student Presentation Award Committee, which will be chaired by the President. Membership on this committee should fairly represent the range and types of institutions embraced by the chapter. Members of the committee will be expected to attend all meetings of the chapter during their year of office, and to rate candidates on a consistent scale between the two meetings on aspects such as the originality of the research, the organization of the presentation, and the effectiveness of the delivery. The winner will be announced in an e-mail to the chapter membership within two weeks after the Spring 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 Winners
Academic Year Paper
2021-2022 Michael Carlson (UNC-Chapel Hill) “Aquilino Coppini, A New Orpheus: Voicing the Erotic Desires of Mary Magdalen.”
2020-2021 Andrew Moenning (Duke University) “‘The Dialectic of Stringency and Freedom’: Morse Code Structures in Gerhard Stäbler’s Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco.”
2019-2020 Kendall Hatch Winter (UNC Chapel Hill), “Melinda and Her Sisters: A Case for Pageantry.”
2018-2019 Jamie Blake (UNC Chapel Hill) “Transnationalism in Print: Russian Music and Musicians in Musical America, 1917–1939”
2017-2018 Imani Mosley (Duke University), “‘A Stuttering Primer for Infants’: The Press and Public Reception of Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana in the Coronation Year”
2016-2017 Kirsten Santos Rutschman (Duke University): “Folksong Against the National Grain: Inventing Pan-Scandinavian Identity”
2015-2016 Gina Bombola (UNC Chapel Hill): “Scandalous Sight, Sublime Sound: Opera and Film Censorship in I Dream Too Much (1935)”
2014-2015 Jennifer Walker (UNC Chapel Hill): “‘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 VanderHamm (UNC Chapel Hill): “Broadcasting ‘Hillbilly’ Virtuosity: Showcasing Musical Skill in a Down-Home Way”
2012-2013 Samuel Brannon (UNC Chapel Hill): “‘Full of a Thousand Beautiful and Graceful Inventions’: The Compilation of Gardano’s 1545 Willaert Motet Print”
2011-2012 Catherine Hughes (UNC Chapel Hill): “Music as a Commodity: Prestige, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism in Brussels before World War I”
2010-2011 Kristen Turner (UNC Chapel Hill): “‘I, Too, Hear America Singing’: Secular Songs in the Civil Rights Movement”
2008-2009 Christopher Wells (UNC Chapel Hill): “An die ferne ‘Freude Finale’: Traces of Beethoven’s Lieder in the Finale of the Ninth Symphony”
2007-2008 Kevin Bartig (UNC Chapel Hill): “A Theory of Opposites: Audiovisual Dissonance in Prokofiev and Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible”
Honorable Mention
Academic Year Paper
2015-2016 Jeremy Sexton (Wake Forest University): “Who is Fair Oriana?”