April 23, 1998 Contact John R. Crosiar (541) 346-3135 EUGENE--Susan Boynton, a University of Oregon assistant professor of musicology, is one of two recipients of a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship for Post-Classical Humanistic Studies at the American Academy in Rome during 1998-99. Officially announced April 23 during a meeting of the academy's board of trustees in New York, the prize will enable Boynton to study in Rome from approximately Sept. 15, 1998, to June 1, 1999. Her project is entitled, "Liturgy and Music at the Abbeys of Farfa and Subiaco, ca. 1000-1200." As a Rome Prize winner, Boynton will join a distinguished community of artists and scholars, both those with whom she will share the coming year and those who have gone before her. Donald Peting, a UO assistant dean and associate professor of architecture, received a Rome Prize in 1977. The American Academy is an interdisciplinary residential community of 65-70 artists and scholars each year. The academy offers each prize winner a stipend, on-site housing, communal meals and access to excellent library facilities. According to Boynton, the academy's location on top of the Janiculum Hill, the highest hill within the walls of Rome, is both serene and convenient to the Vatican library where she will do most of her research. Boynton, who joined the UO School of Music faculty in 1996, completed a joint master's degree in women's studies and music and her doctorate in music history at Brandeis University. She received her bachelor of arts degree in music from Yale College and a master of arts degree in medieval studies from Yale University. Boynton also received a diplôme d'études médiévales from the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve. Having published articles and book reviews in music, medieval studies and philology journals, Boynton is a contributor to the next edition of the "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians." She has presented her research at international conferences in England, Germany and the United States, and she has won several other research awards and grants, including a collaborative Fulbright Fellowship, an honorary AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society, and an honorary American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. Boynton's current research includes articles in preparation on medieval music theory and on women's performance of the lyric. She also is writing a book based on her doctoral dissertation which examined the content, historical context and cultural significance of several 11th-century chant manuscripts containing Latin hymns with commentary. -30- #G-2168/Local,A&E/eb