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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Andrew Greenwood, PhD, has been recognized with the Graduate School’s 2019-20 Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award for his significant research contributions to his field, the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), and the University as a whole.

Greenwood is an assistant professor of musicology and graduate program director in the CAS Department of Music. He will receive a combined $12,500 from the SIUE Graduate School and CAS to be used in a one-year period to advance his research on The Musical Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Scotland.

Chancellor Randy Pembrook, PhD, will present the scholarly award during a special reception to be held Monday, April 1 in the Morris University Center.

“I am absolutely thrilled and feel tremendously grateful to have been selected for the Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award,” said Greenwood. “I am passionate about my research and driven by the question of how music can contribute to the building of new forms of community, understanding and citizenship.”

“In 1707, Scotland lost its sovereignty, and its people turned to their own musical traditions in seeking ways to rebuild sociable connections in the face of social fragmentation,” he explained. “The larger stakes of this research raise questions about music’s power as a force in strengthening communities not only in the Scottish Enlightenment (c.1720-90), but also in today’s world.”

“Music is an incredible force for social change. We Shall Overcome was a key anthem that solidified civil rights protestors,” said Jerry Weinberg, PhD, associate provost for research and dean of the SIUE Graduate School. “Only through Dr. Greenwood’s work and similar studies can we gain a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of eras of important social and political change.”

Greenwood’s intensive research endeavor will involve conducting new archival research with Scottish song collections in the United States and Scotland, and revising his dissertation for a book publication.

He notes it would be the “first major book-length study of the relationship of Scottish song and musical culture to the Scottish Enlightenment, and the first major project to conceive the Enlightenment in essentially a musical way.”

Stephen Hansen, PhD, faculty emeritus, established the Lindsay Research Professorship Endowment that funds the award in honor of Lindsay, who served as graduate dean from 1973-1986. Lindsay was responsible for creating much of the infrastructure that supports faculty research and scholarly activity at SIUE. At the time of the award’s conception, faculty and emeriti faculty donated the funds to endow the award.

Those wishing to help support new investigators through the award may donate to the Graduate School section of the endowment at siue.edu/give/.

Photo: SIUE 2019-20 Vaughnie Lindsay Award winner Andrew Greenwood, PhD.