The UMKC Conservatory is pleased to announce that Alison DeSimone, Assistant Professor of Musicology, has received the inaugural Ruth Solie Prize for Outstanding Article on British Music from the North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA) for her article "'Equally Charming, Equally Too Great': Female Rivalry, Politics, and Opera in Early Eighteenth-Century London," published in volume 12 of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
The selection Committee praised her "first-class musicological scholarship, interdisciplinary fluency, engaging writing, and the originality and scope" of her research.
Congratulations, Dr. DeSimone!