Qingfan Jiang, Matthew Pessar Joseph, and Maria Ryan, Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship

The following members have been awarded the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship by the American Musicological Society in 2020.

Qingfan Jiang (Columbia University)
Dissertation title: “Toward a Global Enlightenment: Music, Missionaries, and the Construction of a Universal History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and Europe”

Matthew Pessar Joseph (Columbia University)
Dissertation title: “Syncopating Segregation: Musical Cross-Pollination in Post-World War II New York City”

Maria Ryan (University of Pennsylvania)
Dissertation title: “Hearing Power, Sounding Freedom: Black Practices of Listening, Ear-Training, and Music-Making in the British Colonial Caribbean”