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Kira Thurman is an American historian and musicologist. [1] She was a 2017 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow. [2]
She is a classically trained pianist who grew up in Vienna. [3] She graduated from University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music. She is a professor at University of Michigan. [4]
Her article, "Performing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German National Identity in Interwar Central Europe" won the Central European Historical Society's Annelise Thimme prize for best article published in 2019/2020. [5] [3]
Singing like Germans has thus far won seven prizes: the Marfield Prize (National Award for Arts Writing), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Gleason Book Award, the German Studies Association's DAAD prize for best book in History/Social Sciences, [6] the Royal Musical Association's Best Monograph Prize, [7] the American Historical Association's George Mosse Prize, [8] the American Musicological Society's Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, [9] and the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (honorable mention). [10] NPR named it one of the Best Books of 2021. [11] [3]
