Assistant Professor of Music History and specialist in American popular music history, Brian Wright, presents "Play Guitar with the Ventures!: How Amateurs Reshaped Rock 'n' Roll" at the Cleveland, Ohio Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Rock Hall's joint lecture series with the American Musicological Society.

The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy won an award for outstanding multi-author publication from the Society for Music Theory featuring one chapter by Associate Professor of Music Theory David Heetderks with another by Doug Donley (MA ’16, PhD ‘21) and Andrew Vagts (PhD ‘20).

The University of North Texas Foundation awarded April Prince, principal lecturer in music history, theory and ethnomusicology with its Outstanding Lecturer Award.

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Music Theory, Vivek Virani, published, "From Satsaṅg to Stage: Negotiating Aesthetic Theologies and Aspirational Subjectivities in a North Indian Bhajan Competition,” in the Society for Ethnomusicology Journal. 

Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Andrew Chung, received recognition at the recently held annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory. He was named a recipient of the Society’s Emerging Scholar Award for his article "What is Musical Meaning? Theorizing Music as Performative Utterance" in Music Theory Online. The award recognizes “significant contributions to music theory, analysis, or history of theory.”