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.
Congratulations are in order for Elizabeth K. Keenan, who won the 2007 Lise Waxer Prize for the best student paper on popular music for her paper given at the 2006 SEM conference in Hawai'i, "Straightyfest, Ladyquest, Ladyfest: Femininity, Sexuality, and Third Wave Feminism at Young Women's Rock Music Festivals." The Lise Waxer Prize is sponsored by the Popular Music Section of SEM.
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