Nahumck Prize

Nahumck Ödülü

By Carol Babiracki

The Nicholas and Nadia Nahumck prize committee, consisting of Carol Babiracki (chair), Sydney Hutchinson, and Michelle Kisliuk, have selected Mustafa Avci (New York University) as this year’s winner of the Nahumck Prize for his research proposal ““Köçeks: Male Belly Dancers in Turkey.” The committee found his project fascinating and innovative. We expect it to make a significant contribution to an under-studied area, the relationship between movement and the transmission of music, a consideration often lacking in the theorization of pedagogy. 

Prize: $4,000 research fellowship

https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/Prizes_Nahumck

https://www.ethnomusicology.org/resource/resmgr/newsletters/sem_45-1%287%29.pdf