Prof. Julie Cumming honoured for graduate teaching excellence
Professor Julie Cumming,听Associate Professor of听Music History and听Musicology, Interim Dean of the Schulich School of Music, has received the听Graduate Faculty Teaching Award (Doctoral-level) 2016-2017 听from the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS). The association is comprised听of Deans and Associate Deans of graduate studies from听universities on the east coast of the US north of Washington DC, within听Canada, from 听universities in听Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. 听Membership in听NAGS听provides听a community of Deans and Associate Deans 听with a听creative forum听to address common issues within听member institutions relating to graduate study and research.听
Professor Cumming's听Graduate Faculty Teaching Award (Doctoral-level) 2016-2017听award recognizes her听excellence and creativity in the teaching of graduate students with an emphasis on pedagogy, including classroom-based and/or distance learning instruction. It听also considers innovation in graduate curriculum development and implementation. 听One example of this听is the听Cumming-Schubert Research Lab, which she and听Professor Peter Schubert established. 听The听lab is a forum听in听which supervised or co-supervised graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines ranging from musicology and music theory to English, Art History, Music Technology and Music Performance Masters meet听weekly to share challenges and successes. 听This interdisciplinary group works diligently on writing and presentation skills and they听edit a wide variety of materials as well as听critique content and presentation styles for upcoming听paper presentations. 听In addition the group听serves as a sample class for听job interviews, and helps beginning students learn about the professional academic path ahead. 听The Cumming-Schubert Research Lab parallels the experience that graduate students in the sciences have when they are part of a lab community. 听听
A devoted and well-loved pedagogue and mentor, Professor Cumming has previously been the recipient of the Schulich School of Music Full-Time Teaching Award (2007) as well as听平特五不中鈥檚 David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Supervision (2015).听 She has supervised PhD dissertations on wind players in Spain c. 1600, early eighteenth-century English theatre music, espionage in Elizabethan England, parody masses, accidentals in fifteenth-century music,听sine nomine听masses in the fifteenth century, music and the plague in the Renaissance, Attaingnant鈥檚 motet prints, Venetian language polyphony, music about music in the Renaissance, the early musical revival, and Renaissance counterpoint treatises. She has supervised MA theses on Hildegard von Bingen, fifteenth-century chansons, Heinrich Biber, Handel's borrowing, madrigal and lute song,听Salve regina听settings by Galuppi, repetition in the music of Comp猫re, motets on texts from the Song of Songs, Marian motets and confraternities in the early sixteenth century, Ariosto settings from sixteenth-century Verona, and improvised polyphony in Colonial Mexico.听"We are tremendously proud of Prof. Cumming听and indebted to her this past year for听continuing to carry the mission of听the faculty forward听as our Interim Dean with such distinction," said Prof. Eleanor Stubley, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies.
Her former students and postdocs teach at University of Toronto, University of Aberdeen, Carleton University (Ottawa), Loyola College (Baltimore), University of Utah, and Brandeis University.听
Professor Cumming was nominated for this award by听Josephine Nalbantoglu, 平特五不中's听Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies,听and听received a certificate听and cash prize of $1000 at an event held听in New York City on听Friday, April 7, 2017. 听
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