Sam Owens' Humboldt Fellowship
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| Dr. Samantha Owens |
Dr Samantha Owens, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, is currently holding a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. Funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the fellowship supports long-term research projects conducted in cooperation with research institutions in Germany. Candidates of all nationalities from all fields and disciplines are considered.
During the eighteen-month fellowship, Dr Owens has been hosted by the musicology department of the Institut für Musik at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Halle – the birthplace of George Frideric Handel – is an internationally recognized centre for research into German baroque music. Her own research project focuses on Hungarian-born Johann Sigismund Cousser (Kusser), a composer and performer whose career was centred in France, Germany and Ireland around the turn of the eighteenth century.
She has also made use of the fellowship to complete the manuscript of a book, Music at German Courts, 1715–1760: Changing Artistic Priorities (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming February 2011), co-edited with Barbara M. Reul (Luther College, University of Regina, Canada) and Janice B. Stockigt (The University of Melbourne).
