Michael Accinno received his Ph.D. in 2016 with research interests in nineteenth-century American music and disability studies. He has held academic appointments at Duke University and UC Riverside.

2020: Thomas Hampson Award for Research and Publication on Classic Song, American Musicological Society

2019: Short-Term Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania

2018: NEH Summer Institute Scholar, “Global Histories of Disability” Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

2017–2019: Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Music, University of California, Riverside

2014–2015: Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Research and Writing Fellowship 2013: Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship, UC Davis College of Letters and Science