Dr. Katherine Preston Honored
Dr. Katherine Preston, David N. & Margaret C. Bottoms Professor of Music, was recently honored with a Plumeri Award.
A respected musicologist, Professor Preston
teaches courses on various aspects of music history. The focus of her
scholarship is nineteenth-century American musical culture. Preston 
had two
major publications released in 2011, George
Bristow’s Symphony No. 2 (“The
Jullien”) and a facsimile edition of a bound volume of sheet music from
1853, both published by A-R Editions of Madison, Wisconsin. Preston has also
published three other books. Her latest project, Against the Grain: Women Managers and English Opera in Late
Nineteenth-Century America, examines a neglected aspect of American musical
theatre during 1860–1900. It is under review by Oxford University Press.
Preston is currently president of the Society for American Music, an
international scholarly organization. Preston was the Walt Whitman
Distinguished Chair of American Culture at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands
(Fulbright Senior Fellowship) in Spring 2009 and the William J. Bouwsma Fellow
in Musicology at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina during 2009–2010.
At William & Mary since 1989, Preston holds a doctorate from the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York. She is an active member of the Society for American
Music, the American Musicological Society, the College Music Society, and the North
American British Music Studies Association.
Taken from the article by Nicholas Langhorne, University Development. Click here to view the entire article on this year's Plumeri Award recipients.
