We are delighted to share the news that two former Cambridge PhD students, Francesco Milella and Paul Newton-Jackson, and one current Junior Research Fellow, Alexander Cowan, have won awards in the 2024 IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award competition. Many congratulations to all three!
Joint Winner
Francesco Milella, “Beyond Italian Opera: Manuel García in Postcolonial Mexico City (1826–1828),” University of Cambridge (UK), 2022
2nd Honorable Mention
Alexander Cowan, “Unsound: A Cultural History of Music and Eugenics,” Harvard University (US), 2023
3rd Honorable Mention
Paul Newton-Jackson, “Georg Philipp Telemann and the Invention of ‘The Polish Style’: Musical Polishness in the Early Modern German Imagination,” University of Cambridge (UK), 2022