Kirsten Santos Rutschman receives Fulbright Award for 2015-16

Musicology graduate student Kirsten Santos Rutschman has received the Fulbright U.S. Student Award. She will spend the 2015-16 academic year in Sweden, mainly in Stockholm and Uppsala, fostering mutual understanding through cultural exchange and conducting archival research for her dissertation on "Concepts of Folk in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art Music.”

The American-Scandinavian Foundation has also awarded her a fellowship to support her research in Sweden, provided through the Thord-Gray Memorial Fund and the Sven and Ingrid Bernhard Fund.