IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award 2025
In February 2025 we received a total of sixty-eight applications for the IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award (IMSODA2025), representing twenty-seven countries and fifteen different languages—a new record! The IMS decided to award two prizes this year, one each for doctoral dissertations completed in 2023 and 2024, as well as four honorable mentions:
Award Winners
Marcel Camprubí, “Lines of Thought: Notations and Histories of Music Theory from Abbasid Baghdad (762–1055),” Princeton University (US), 2024.
Brian Robert Fairley, “Dissected Listening: A Media History of Georgian Polyphony,” New York University (US), 2023.
1st Honorable Mention
Brian Barone, “Music, Real Abstraction, and Growth in the Black Atlantic,” Boston University (US), 2024.
2nd Honorable Mention
Julin Lee, “Soundtracks on Demand: Engaging with Music and Sound in Science Fiction Television Series in the Streaming Era,” University of Music and Theatre Munich (DE), 2024.
3rd Honorable Mention
Akihisa Yamamoto, “On ‘Proletarian Music’ in Early Soviet Russia: A Conceptual History of the Pre- and Post-October Revolution,” Tokyo University of the Arts (JP), 2023.
4th Honorable Mention
Juan Alberto Bermúdez Molina, “Virtual Musical.ly(ties): Identities, Performances, and Meanings in a Mobile Application; an Ethnomusicological Approach to TikTok’s Musicking,” University of Vienna (AT), 2023.