Stilwell wins Einstein award

Jama Stilwell, associate professor of music, has won the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society, which recognizes an article of exceptional merit.

Stilwell’s article, titled “A New View of the Eighteenth-Century ‘Abduction’ Opera: Edification & Escape at the Parisian Théâtres de la Foire,” appeared in the journal Music and Letters in 2010.

Stilwell teaches studio flute and a diverse array of music courses. Her dissertation also reflects her wide-ranging interests, drawing upon the histories of opera, chamber music, theater, performance practice, and popular culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is an active performer on the one-keyed baroque flute, both as a soloist and with the chamber duo Traversi. She has a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Iowa; an M.M. in musicology from Northwestern University; and a B.M. in flute performance from the University of Iowa.