Spring 2023

    • Ph.D. candidate Matthew Gabay receives a grant from the Catholic University Graduate Student Association to fund travel to Germany to pursue research on his dissertation, "Music Printing in Nuremberg during the Long Seventeenth Century: The Endter Printing Dynasty."
    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver is awarded the Claude V. Palisca Fellowship in Musicology from the Renaissance Society of America, to fund travel to Europe to pursue his research project "The Early Modern Music Print as Multivalent Political Object: European Politics and Habsburg Culture in the Novus thesaurus musicus (1568)."
    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver spends a week at Rice University in February as a fellow with their Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program. While at Rice, he examined sixteenth-century partbooks in the university library, gave a workshop to students on February 22 titled "Adventures in Bibliography and the History of the Book, Featuring Fondren Library's Copy of the Novus thesaurus musicus (1568)," and gave a lecture on February 23 titled "Political Power and Resistance in a Music Print: Defining the Holy Roman Empire in the Novus thesaurus musicus (1568)."

    Fall 2022

    • Alumnus Christopher Booth (Ph.D. 2018) publishes the book A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola (Lanham, MD: Lexington), co-authored with Naaman Wood.

    Summer 2022

    • Alumnus Lars Helgert (Ph.D. 2008) publishes an article in American Music 40, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 141–79. The title of the article is “Herrman S. Saroni: Paths to Success as a Composer in New York, 1844–52.”
    • Alumna Joy-Leilani Garbutt (Ph.D. 2022) publishes an essay in The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights, ed. Julian Fifer, Angela Impey, Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Manfred Nowak, and George Ulrich (London: Routledge, 2022).
    • M.A./M.S.L.S. student Elyse Ridder, together with James Brooks Kuykendal, publishes an article in MLA Notes, vol. 78, no. 4 (June 2022): 501–17. The title of the article is "Pirating Pinafore: Sousa's 1879 Orchestration."
    • Ph.D. candidate Tom Rohde presents a paper at the forty-sixth world conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, held in Lisbon on 21–27 July. The title of his paper is "'Rasga o coração' (Tear open my heart): Cultural Adaptation and Recontextualization in the Modinhas of Catullo da Paixão Cearense."

    Spring 2022

    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver receives the Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence from the Rome School.
    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver gives a paper at the conference Sounding Habsburg: Sonic Circulations in Central Europe, held in New York City on April 22–23. The title of his paper is “Defining the Empire in a Music Print: The Novus thesaurus musicus (1568) between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism.” 
    • Alumna Karen Uslin (Ph.D. 2015) spends the month of March in Sweden doing research at Uppsala University on a fellowship from the university.
    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver spends a week at Baldwin Wallace University in March, as a visiting scholar and recipient of the Martha Goldsworthy Arnold Fellowship. While in residence, Dr. Weaver studied sixteenth-century partbooks held in the Riemenschneider Bach Institute and led seminars on his research with students.
    • Ph.D. candidate Natalie Barsoum receives a $5000 grant from the Cosmos Club of Washington, DC, to travel to Paris to conduct research on her dissertation on song settings of Victor Hugo's poetry. The Cosmos Club also awards Natalie their Gerson Nordlinger Meritorious Award in the Arts. 
    • Alumnus Kevin McDonald (Ph.D. 2021) gives a presentation at the Jazz Education Network Conference in Dallas, Texas, January 5–8. The title of his presentation is "Hearing the American Civil Rights Movement in the Music of Max Roach."
    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver contributes a chapter on music to the book Early Modern Court Culture, ed. Erin Griffey (London: Routledge, 2022), 506–17.

    Fall 2021

    • Dr. Sara Pecknold publishes the article "Madre d’Amore: Redemptive Motherhood in Barbara Strozzi’s Sacri musicali affetti (1655)," Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 27, no. 2 (2021).
    • Catholic University is well represented on the program of the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, with presentations by Dr. Andrew H. Weaver and alumni Kevin McDonald (Ph.D. 2021), Karen Uslin (Ph.D. 2015), and Flannery Jamison (B.A. 2019).
    • Ph.D. candidate Joy-Leilani Garbutt is interviewed for and quoted in an article that appears in the New York Times on November 2. The article is about organist Jeanne Demessieux, a subject of Joy's dissertation research.
    • Ph.D. candidate Tom Rohde gives a lecture titled "African and European Connections in Brazilian Choro" in the Choro Lecture Series at the Old Parish House of College Park, October 8. The lecture was recorded and can be watched on YouTube at this link.

    Summer 2021

    • Alumna Karen Uslin (Ph.D. 2015) is hired as the Director of Research at the Defiant Requiem Foundation.
    • Alumnus Joseph Mann (Ph.D. 2017) gives a presentation at the 49th Medieval and Renaissance International Music Conference held at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal, on July 8. The title of his presentation is "'A good exhortation,' or Moral Instruction in English Broadside Ballads, 1558–1625."
    • Alumnus Thad Garrett (M.A./M.S.L.S. 2013) publishes the article "Bibliophilia! How Libraries (and Librarians) Bring Value to Club Membership" in the Spring 2021 issue of Club Director magazine.

    Spring 2021

    • Ph.D. student Gretchen Erlichman gives a presentation at the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies, hosted online by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, on May 10. The title of her presentation is "Ave, Gloriosa: Shedding Light on the La Clayette Motets and Their Use for Marian Devotion in the Medieval Divine Office in France." 
    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver publishes a review of David M. Bynog's Notes for Violists (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the Journal of the American Viola Society 37, no. 1 (spring 2021): 71–73.
    • Alumnus Joseph Mann (Ph.D. 2017) gives a presentation at the online Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America on April 13. The title of his paper is "On the Defensive: Music and the Puritan Orthodoxy of the Interregnum."
    • Ph.D. student Gretchen Erlichman is a finalist for the Lowens Award for Student Research, given by the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society, for her paper "Das Volkslied, das Vöglein, das Vaterland: A Historical Analysis of Schumann's Settings of 'Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär'."
    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver receives a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst to travel to Germany to conduct research for his book Robert Schumann, Narrator in Song: A Theory of Narratology for the German Romantic Lied and Song Cycle.
    • Ph.D. candidate Matthew Gabay receives a $5000 grant from the Cosmos Club of Washington, DC, to travel to Germany to conduct research for his dissertation, "Music Printing in Nuremberg during the Long Seventeenth Century: The Endter Printing Dynasty." 

    Fall 2020

    • Alumnus Joseph Mann (Ph.D. 2017) publishes the book Printed Musical Propaganda in Early Modern England, Studies in British Musical Cultures 1 (Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2020).
    • Ph.D. candidate Anna Brashears presents a paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, held online on November 7–8 and 14–15. The title of her paper, given on November 14, is “‘Now We are Dead’: Ethel Voynich’s Epitaph in Ballad Form and the Aftermath of Rebellion.”
    • Dr. Andrew H. Weaver publishes the book A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Brill's Companions to the Musical Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe 4 (Leiden: Brill, 2020), a collection of essays that he edited and to which he contributed. Among the other contributors is Dr. Sara Pecknold, assistant professor of the practice of sacred music.