{"id":69,"date":"2021-12-30T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:47:31","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honourable Mention, International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance best article competition (for \u201cVernacular Catholicism in Ireland: The Keening Woman\u201d in <em>Religions<\/em> 15\/879: 1-14. Special issue, Musicology of Religion: Selected Papers on Religion and Music. [co-written with Lillis \u00d3 Laoire].<\/li>\n<li>Sponsored Research Award for faculty summer funding to work on my next project, a comprehensive bilingual songbook for the residents of Tory Island, off the north coast of Donegal, Ireland. [with Lillis \u00d3 Laoire and Brian \u00d3 Domhnaill]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helen Roberts Prize for Most Significant Article Published in the Field of Ethnomusicology for &#8220;Poetry Writing as Transgressive Ethnography,&#8221; published in <em>Ethnomusicology<\/em> 66\/3: 361-377 (2022).<\/li>\n<li>Honourable Mention, Best Article, International Council for Traditions in Music and Dance for &#8220;Poetry Writing as Transgressive Ethnography,&#8221; published in <em>Ethnomusicology<\/em> 66\/3: 361-377 (2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book\u00a0<em>Music at the Threshold<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to participate in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arabicmusicretreat.org\/\">Arabic Music Retreat<\/a>\u00a0at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book\u00a0<em>Music at the Threshold<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College (to conduct fieldwork in Indonesia)<\/li>\n<li>International Gugak Institute, Seoul, South Korea (to study Korean music)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the Alan P. Merriam Prize for Outstanding Book in Ethnomusicology, awarded for\u00a0<em>Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man<\/em>, co-authored with Dr. Lillis \u00d3 Laoire, Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book\u00a0<em>Music at the Threshold<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book\u00a0<em>Music at the Threshold<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book\u00a0<em>Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man<\/em>, later published in 2011 by Oxford)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to complete transcriptions of the songs, stories and anecdotes of the Irish singer Joe Heaney)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1989<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Washington (to complete my dissertation on Indonesian music)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1988<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award for research in Indonesia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1987<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C.O.T.I. Award to study Advanced Indonesian at IKIP University, Malang, East Java, Indonesia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1986<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>F.L.A.S. Award to study Intermediate Indonesian at Northern Illinois University (Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1985<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuition Award to Study Beginning Indonesian at the University of Michigan (Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1984<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boeing Award for Excellence, University of Washington<\/li>\n<li>Nehamer Scholarship, University of Washington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 Honourable Mention, International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance best article competition (for \u201cVernacular Catholicism in Ireland: The Keening Woman\u201d in Religions 15\/879: 1-14. Special issue, Musicology of Religion: Selected Papers on Religion and Music. [co-written with Lillis \u00d3 Laoire]. Sponsored Research Award for faculty summer funding to work on my next project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}