Doctor Shay Loya
Nationality: Israel
Year: 2005
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
I received my Wingate scholarship at the last stages of my PhD. The timing could not have been more perfect, as I had no other scholarship or regular employment, yet was at the beginning of a large-scale research project on the impact of verbunkos genres (‘Hungarian-Gypsy music’) on nineteenth-century composition. This helped me finish my PhD, write my first two articles (forthcoming) as well as present two papers in international conferences (Manchester 2006 and Zurich 2007). I have recently received a teaching position at Durham University and am now preparing more articles and a book for publication. The results of this research, and the debate which I hope it will spark, are still in the future. For now, I can only express my deep gratitude to the foundation for supporting this project in, what turned out to be, its first and most crucial year.