Alejandro L. Madrid, the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award honoring his research and academic achievement. Professor Madrid is only the fifth musicologist to receive this award.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants Humboldt Research Awards to internationally recognized researchers of all disciplines in recognition of their academic record and research. The award honors researchers whose discoveries, theories, or findings have had a lasting impact on their discipline, and who are expected to continue producing outstanding research in the future. The awardees are also invited to conduct a research project at an institution in Germany in cooperation with specialists there.
Professor Madrid is a cultural theorist of sound and music working in Latin American and Latinx studies. His recent scholarship, at the intersection of musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, focuses on sound archives; race and representation in Afro-Latinx communities; homophobia and masculinity; as well as historiography and biographical narratives. Professor Madrid discusses his current research and upcoming book The Archive and the Sounded City in the Summer 2023 Music Department Newsletter. Click here to read the Newsletter.
Congratulations Professor Madrid!