The Howard
Mayer Brown Fellowship for a minority graduate study in
musicology for 2019 was awarded to UC Davis music graduate
student Serena
Yang.She is the first UC Davis
student to earn the Brown fellowship from the American
Musicological Society.
Serena Yang is a postdoctoral fellow for the Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science.
Her research interests include twentieth- and
twenty-first-century music, interdisciplinary studies, cultural
studies, and Asian music. Yang holds a bachelor’s degree in
violin from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, and a
master’s degree in music history from the University of
Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music under Bruce McClung.
