Achievements & Awards

Denise Gill awarded Stanford Humanities Fellowship for 2020-21

The Department of Music's Denise Gill is among the 33 humanities scholars who have been awarded fellowships by the Stanford Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year. Internal faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor). One goal of the fellowship selection process is to create a diverse community of scholars. 

Assistant Professor Gill is an ethnomusicologist and sound studies scholar specializing in silence, sonic, and musical practices of western Turkey and former Ottoman territories. She is the author of Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians (Oxford University Press, 2017), which received the Ruth Stone Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. Her current book project, Aurality and the Craft of Deathwork, explores women’s labors in a gasılhane of Istanbul, Turkey. There, local Muslim rituals for washing, reciting to, and shrouding the deceased are sponsored and monitored by the state.