Brown University, "The Hinchada That Other Hinchadas Listen to: Digital Circulation and Economies of Musical Creativity Among Argentine Soccer Fans”

Brown University, "Popular Music Reaction Videos: Staging the Body as the Material Site of Music Reception”

Harvard University, “'Thin Voice, Bud Voice, Female Voice': Material and Discursive Productions of Voice and Voicing in a Sindhi Devotional Community” 

Harvard University, “Singing Resistance and Subversion: Feminine Voices Renegotiating Iran’s Public Sphere”

Tufts University, “The Mikakaji: Timbre in Zambian Luvale Percussion”

Harvard University, “We’ve Got Harmony, Too!”: Reclaiming Music Theory, Performing Chinese-ness

Harvard University, "Multiple Temporalities in Benin's Brass Bands: A Postcolony's Local Histories of the Global"

Harvard University, "Matters of Taste and Time in Greek Anatolian Music"

Harvard University, "The Musical Metrics of Poetic Dialogue in
Greek Song" 

Tufts University, "On the Terrace: Ritual Performance of Identity and Conflict by the Shamrock Rovers Football Club Ultras in Dublin"

Harvard University, "White Skin, Black Masks? Expressions of Identity in the Work of South African Rave-Rap Crew 'Die Antwoord'"

Boston University, "Timing and Groove in Irish Traditional Music
and Dance" 

Boston University, "Music in 'Sudeten-German' Expulsion"  

Wesleyan University, "From Threatened by Modernity to Reinvented by Modernity: The History of the History of Indian Classical Music
(1980 - 2006)"                      

Boston University, "Playing Their Part: The Changing Role of Professional Female Musicians in India"      

Harvard University, "P’ungmul, Politics, and Protest"

Tufts University, "Common Life, Common Prayer: The Music of Community at Weston Priory"

Wesleyan University, "Indonesian 'Musik Kontemporer' and the Question of 'Western Influence'"

Brown University, "Curriculum, Canon and Creativity: Youth and Arab Music Transmission in Cairo"

Wesleyan University, " Performance as Ethnographic Object: Musical Images of the Primitive in Hill Tribe Tourism"

Smith College, " The Kidung Jemaat: A Christian Hymnal in a
Non-Christian World"

Susan Thomas's "The Transformation of the Black Man in the Cuban Zarzuela" treats issues of race and gender in a minstrel-related repertory of Cuba, making comparisons to the United States

Wesleyan University; won the 1999 prize for her paper, entitled "The Living Dead and Spirits: Inspiration and Guidance for Black Women in Popular American Music"

M.A. candidate at Tufts University, won the 1998 prize for her paper entitled "Calamé: Characteristics of Lullaby in Venezuela"

Ph.D. candidate at Brown University, was awarded the 1996 Prize for his paper entitled "Authenticity on Trial in Polish Contest Festivals"

"Kwayas, Kandas, Kiosks: The Making of a Tanzanian Popular Music" 

Wesleyan University, "Music, Ritual and Soundscape on Wanyamwezi Caravans in 19th Century East Africa"

Graduate student at Brown University, won the 1992 Prize for his paper, "Hand-Made Music: An Uilleann Pipers's Way with Words"

 Brown University, for "Te kaunikai to te kaunimaneve: Changing aspects of performance competition in Kiribati"