Category: Student Section
Bios and news items for graduate students
Congratulations to
Tyler Bickford, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia, who has just been awarded two prestigious prizes for recent conference papers:
1)
The 2009 Lise Waxer Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society
for Ethnomusicology, recognizing the most distinguished student paper
in the ethnomusicology of popular music presented at the SEM annual
meeting in Wesleyan, CT, October 2008, for his paper entitled: "Media
Consumption as Social Organization at a New England Primary School."
and2)
The 2009 Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the
Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) for the best student paper
presented at the Middle Atlantic SEM Chapter meeting in New York, March
2008, entitled: "The Social Economy of Headphone Use in a New England
Primary School."
Learn more about Tyler Bickford's work at his
personal website.
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Hearty congratulations are in order for a number of Columbia Ethnomusicology students:
First, three students are now alumni! We congratulate Andrew Eisenberg, Morgan Luker, and Ryan Skinner, each of whom has successfully defended his dissertation.
We also congratulate Tyler Bickford, winner of a Columbia University Whiting Fellowship.
Congratulations to Farzaneh Hemmasi, who has won a dissertation fellowship for 2009-10 from the Middle East Institute.
Congratulations to Sara Snyder, who has won a summer research fellowship from the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
Columbia ethnomusicology PhD student
Ryan Skinner has just published his first children's book:
Sidikiba's Kora Lesson.
Ten year-old Sidikiba is about to be initiated into the world of the kora, a twenty-one stringed West African harp performed by his family for seventy generations. To become a kora player, like his father and grandfather before him, Sidikiba must honor and respect the wisdom of his elders, trust in the mystical secrets of his community, and, above all else, be patient and practice hard...
Sidikiba's Kora Lesson is the story of a child's encounter with a rich cultural heritage set in a modern African city, where learning to balance the new and the old is part of growing up. Through sound, pictures, and text, Sidikiba's Kora Lesson comes alive for readers and music lovers of all ages!
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Saturday, September 20
3:00 PM
Panel Discussion:
1986 Mixtape: How American Music played out through the end of the 1980s.
A roundtable in connection with Matt Keegan's solo show "Now's the Time."
Panelists: Tammy Rae Carland, Cheryl Keyes, Alan Licht, David Novak (moderator), Dave Muller.
Anna Helwing Gallery
2766 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034-2642
http://www.annahelwing.com/home.html
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"Lion in the Grass," Columbia's bluegrass ensemble was founded at Columbia in 2004, and has achieved a strong reputation on campus and in the community. Lion in the Grass plays at many campus functions throughout the year, and at neighborhood venues as well.
Toby King is the band's director, and can be reached at: jk560@columbia.edu. Auditions will be held Friday, September 5th, at 4:00 PM, in Dodge 112. (Enter Dodge from College Walk, not from the main entrance on the third floor).
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Congratulations to Ethnomusicology PhD student Morgan Luker, who has accepted a position as a lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Morgan will be teaching two undergraduate ethnomusicology courses and the graduate proseminar in ethnomusicology.
Congratulations to Ethnomusicology PhD student Brian Karl who has accepted a position as a lecturer in Anthropology at Colby College.
Congratulations to Ethnomusicology PhD student Andy Eisenberg, who has accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University.
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(A.B., Harvard University, 2008, cum laude in field) Samuel's current research focuses on citizenship, language policy, and immigration in Quebec. read more »
(B.A. in Music [flute performance] and Religious Studies, Lawrence
University 2002; M.A. in Ethnomusicology, Columbia 2005). Anna's
undergraduate work focused on music/sound in Hindu and Buddhist
practice. Her M.A. thesis, "Conflict and Confluence: Constructing and
Crossing Boundaries at the Ahiri Institute for Indian Music and Dance,"
examined Indian classical performers’ representation of Indian heritage
in intercultural situations in New York City. Anna's dissertation
project addresses the role of an emerging Nepali popular genre, dohori
git, in rural-urban migrants' negotiation of gendered national
identity. Work based on this research was presented at the 2006 meeting
of IASPM-USA. Her research interests include Nepali and other Himalayan
musics, media and circulation, performance theory, and the role of
music and sound in development and social movements. Anna has been a
Columbia Teaching Fellow and has received the FLAS for summer study of
Nepali (2004), and the Columbia Summer Travel Grant for research in
Nepal (2005). Her dissertation research is being supported by
Fulbright-Hays and the Social Science Research Council.
Email: ams2110@columbia.edu
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