David B. Pruett, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Music
Chair, Department of Performing Arts

McCormack Hall, 2nd floor, rm. 625
University of Massachusetts at Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Email:
david.pruett@umb.edu

                   

 


Honors and Awards



2011
 
UMass Boston, Dean’s Travel Fund Award ($1,100)
2009-10 UMass Boston, Endowed Faculty Career Development Fund Award ($3000)
 
2008 Admitted to MTSU’s graduate faculty at the associate level
 

2005

MIDSEM JaFran Jones Award for best student paper presented at the regional meeting for the Society for Ethnomusicology Midwestern Chapter, Bowling Green, Ohio.

 

2004 FSU Dissertation Research Grant ($500)

2004  

Pi Kappa Lambda, national music honor society

2001-2003 Graduate teaching assistantship, Florida State University College of Music
 

2002

Conference Presentation Grant, Florida State University Musical Associates ($400)

 

2001

SEMSEC Prize for best student paper presented at the regional meeting for the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter, Greenville, North Carolina.
 

1998-2000

Teaching Assistantship, German Division, Department of Modern Languages, Florida State University

 

1997-1998

Research Assistantships, English Department and Math Department, University of Duisburg, Germany

 

1996

Winner of the First Annual Foreign Language Essay Contest in German, Appalachian State University.

1993-1994

Woodson-Horine Scholarship for Study Abroad, Appalachian State University.
 

1994  

Prüfung zum Nachweis deutscher Sprachkenntnisse (German Language Proficiency Exam) University of Würzburg, Germany. Passing this exam allowed me to enroll at any German-speaking university as a “normal” student.