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Prof. Julie Cumming honoured for graduate teaching excellence

Published: 13 April 2017

Professor Julie Cumming,ÌýAssociate Professor ofÌýMusic History andÌýMusicology, Interim Dean of the Schulich School of Music, has received theÌýGraduate Faculty Teaching Award (Doctoral-level) 2016-2017 Ìýfrom the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS). The association is comprisedÌýof Deans and Associate Deans of graduate studies fromÌýuniversities on the east coast of the US north of Washington DC, withinÌýCanada, from Ìýuniversities inÌýOntario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. ÌýMembership inÌýNAGSÌýprovidesÌýa community of Deans and Associate Deans Ìýwith aÌýcreative forumÌýto address common issues withinÌýmember institutions relating to graduate study and research.Ìý

Professor Cumming'sÌýGraduate Faculty Teaching Award (Doctoral-level) 2016-2017Ìýaward recognizes herÌýexcellence and creativity in the teaching of graduate students with an emphasis on pedagogy, including classroom-based and/or distance learning instruction. ItÌýalso considers innovation in graduate curriculum development and implementation. ÌýOne example of thisÌýis theÌýCumming-Schubert Research Lab, which she andÌýProfessor Peter Schubert established. ÌýTheÌýlab is a forumÌýinÌýwhich 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 meetÌýweekly to share challenges and successes. ÌýThis interdisciplinary group works diligently on writing and presentation skills and theyÌýedit a wide variety of materials as well asÌýcritique content and presentation styles for upcomingÌýpaper presentations. ÌýIn addition the groupÌýserves as a sample class forÌýjob interviews, and helps beginning students learn about the professional academic path ahead. ÌýThe Cumming-Schubert Research Lab parallels the experience that graduate students in the sciences have when they are part of a lab community. ÌýÌý

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 asÌýÀ¦°óSMÉçÇø’s David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Supervision (2015).Ìý 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,Ìýsine nomineÌýmasses in the fifteenth century, music and the plague in the Renaissance, Attaingnant’s 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,ÌýSalve reginaÌýsettings by Galuppi, repetition in the music of Compère, 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.Ìý"We are tremendously proud of Prof. CummingÌýand indebted to her this past year forÌýcontinuing to carry the mission ofÌýthe faculty forwardÌýas 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.Ìý

Professor Cumming was nominated for this award byÌýJosephine Nalbantoglu, À¦°óSMÉçÇø'sÌýDean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies,ÌýandÌýreceived a certificateÌýand cash prize of $1000 at an event heldÌýin New York City onÌýFriday, April 7, 2017. Ìý

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