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Earlier this week, Michael Schachter successfully defended his dissertations. You read that correctly: as a Theory/Composition PhD, he had to write two dissertations. Please see below for titles and abstracts. Congratulations, Michael!

On May 22, Elizabeth McLain shared her experiences as a student, teacher, and scholar at the Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Conference to advocate for equitable access for disabled library users. Together with Luke Kudryashov (PhD student in English and...

The Dissertation Writing Group, one of the offerings of the SMR Forum, is already back in action! Participants are doing their usual chapter-writing, feedback-giving, warm-beverage–sipping, and mutual encouraging. Brace yourself for a stream of new dissertation chapters over the course...

James McNally recently accepted a post as a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a possible additional affiliation with the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies. This fall he will...

One of our freshly-minted PhDs, Anne Heminger, has an article in the most recent issue of Early Music History—and in line with the ecumenical spirit of SMR, it includes both music-theoretical and more conventional musicological themes. The article is entitled, "Music...