Past Winners of the Housewright Dissertation Award
| Diss. Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1995 | David Patterson, "Appraising the Catchwords, c. 1942-1959: John Cage's Asian- Derived Rhetoric and the Historic Reference of Black Mountain College" |
| 1997 | Jennifer L. DeLapp, "Copland in the Fifties: Music and Ideology in the McCarthy Era" |
| 1998 | David Ake, "Being Jazz: Identities and Images" |
| 1999 | Amy C. Beal, "Patronage and Reception History of American Experimental Music in West Germany, 1945-1986" |
| 2000 | Sandra J. Graham, "The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Concert Spiritual: the Beginnings of an American Tradition" |
| 2001 | Elyse Carter Vosen, "Seventh-Fire Children: Gender, Embodiment, and Musical Performances of Decolonization by Anishinaabe Youth" |
| 2002 | Mark Clague, "Chicago Counterpoint: The Auditorium" |
| 2003 | Mark J. Butler, "Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music" |
| 2004 | Charles Hiroshi Garrett, "Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music in the Twentieth Century" |
| 2005 | Jeremy Grimshaw, "Music of a 'More Exalted Sphere': Compositional Practice, Biography, and Cosmology in the Music of La Monte Young" |
| 2006 | Drew Davies, "The Italianized Frontier: Music at Durango Cathedral, Español Culture, and Aesthetics of Devotion in Eighteenth-Century New Spain" |
| 2007 | Ayden Adler, "Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music": Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, 1930-1950." |
| 2008 | Jonathan Greenberg, "Singing Up Close: Voice, Language, and Race in American Popular Music, 1925–1935" |
Note: For years not listed, no award was given.