Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, BGSU. Spring 2023.
Merrill McEwen Memorial Fund, College of Musical Arts, BGSU, for travel to Germany. Spring 2022.
Kurt Weill Prize (Kurt Weill Foundation) for “Doctor Atomic or: How John Adams Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sound Design.” Fall 2021. Announcement
ProMusica Faculty/Staff Award. College of Musical Arts, BGSU. Spring 2020.
Community Involvement Award. Faculty Senate, BGSU. Spring 2020.
Virgil Thomson Fellowship (Society for American Music) for research for my book project, Making American Opera after Einstein. 2019.
ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award (2018) for best 2017 article focusing on the concert music genre (“‘My answer to what music theater can be’: Iconoclasm and Entrepreneurship in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave”). Announcement
Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research Grant, Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, for “New Music Theater and the New Music Ensemble.” Spring 2018.
Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music (MACCM) Grant for research/travel for “Incubating American ‘Opera-Theater’: Beth Morrison Projects, Los Angeles Opera, and Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar.” Fall 2017.
New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship for “Scoring the Body: Meredith Monk’s Atlas as American Operatic Work.” Summer 2017. Project report.
MACCM Grant for research/travel for “‘Unencumbered Creativity Within the Parameters’: Bringing Meredith Monk’s Atlas to the Stage.” Spring 2017.
Merrill McEwen Memorial Fund, College of Musical Arts, BGSU, for research at Houston Grand Opera. Spring 2016.
MACCM Grant for research/travel for “Steve Reich’s The Cave and the Challenges of Iconoclastic Opera.” Fall 2015.
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2013/14.
Graduate and Professional Student Federation Travel Award (UNC-Chapel Hill), for dissertation research in New York City. March 2014.
Suzanne Levy Summer Research Fellowship (UNC-Chapel Hill), for dissertation research at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Switzerland. Summer 2013.
Kenan Fund Graduate Student Activities Award (UNC-Chapel Hill), for dissertation research at the New York Public Library and Brooklyn Academy of Music archives. May 2013.
Kenan Fund Graduate Student Activities Award (UNC-Chapel Hill), for dissertation research at the San Francisco Opera. December 2012.
James W. Pruett Summer Research Fellowship in Music at the Library of Congress, for research on the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore. Summer 2010. Project report.
Career Development Grant, Peabody Conservatory. Fall 2006.
Annie Wentz Prize in Voice, Peabody Conservatory. Spring 2005.
Merrill McEwen Memorial Fund, College of Musical Arts, BGSU, for travel to Germany. Spring 2022.
Kurt Weill Prize (Kurt Weill Foundation) for “Doctor Atomic or: How John Adams Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sound Design.” Fall 2021. Announcement
ProMusica Faculty/Staff Award. College of Musical Arts, BGSU. Spring 2020.
Community Involvement Award. Faculty Senate, BGSU. Spring 2020.
Virgil Thomson Fellowship (Society for American Music) for research for my book project, Making American Opera after Einstein. 2019.
ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award (2018) for best 2017 article focusing on the concert music genre (“‘My answer to what music theater can be’: Iconoclasm and Entrepreneurship in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave”). Announcement
Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research Grant, Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, for “New Music Theater and the New Music Ensemble.” Spring 2018.
Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music (MACCM) Grant for research/travel for “Incubating American ‘Opera-Theater’: Beth Morrison Projects, Los Angeles Opera, and Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar.” Fall 2017.
New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship for “Scoring the Body: Meredith Monk’s Atlas as American Operatic Work.” Summer 2017. Project report.
MACCM Grant for research/travel for “‘Unencumbered Creativity Within the Parameters’: Bringing Meredith Monk’s Atlas to the Stage.” Spring 2017.
Merrill McEwen Memorial Fund, College of Musical Arts, BGSU, for research at Houston Grand Opera. Spring 2016.
MACCM Grant for research/travel for “Steve Reich’s The Cave and the Challenges of Iconoclastic Opera.” Fall 2015.
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2013/14.
Graduate and Professional Student Federation Travel Award (UNC-Chapel Hill), for dissertation research in New York City. March 2014.
Suzanne Levy Summer Research Fellowship (UNC-Chapel Hill), for dissertation research at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Switzerland. Summer 2013.
Kenan Fund Graduate Student Activities Award (UNC-Chapel Hill), for dissertation research at the New York Public Library and Brooklyn Academy of Music archives. May 2013.
Kenan Fund Graduate Student Activities Award (UNC-Chapel Hill), for dissertation research at the San Francisco Opera. December 2012.
James W. Pruett Summer Research Fellowship in Music at the Library of Congress, for research on the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore. Summer 2010. Project report.
Career Development Grant, Peabody Conservatory. Fall 2006.
Annie Wentz Prize in Voice, Peabody Conservatory. Spring 2005.