Qinfan Jiang ’12 was awarded the most prestigious Ph.D. dissertation award in musicology by the American Musicological Society, an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship for “Toward a Global Enlightenment: Music, Missionaries, and the Construction of a Universal History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and Europe.”

She graduated from IWU in 2012 and went on to earn a Master’s in Music from Rice University. She is currently pursuing her PhD (also in Musicology) from Columbia University.