James Parsons (Ph.D.), Springfield, Mo. :: professor of music history at Missouri State University, received one of two university-wide MSU Foundation Research Awards in recognition of research excellence. His work was recently published in Early Music and Music & Letters and will appear this summer in Austrian Studies. He presented a scholarly paper, “Hanns Eisler’s Hollywooder Liederbuch and Sonic Montage,” at the national meeting of the American Musicological Society in November.