Masi Asare
Performance Studies alum Masi Asare (M.A. '07, Ph.D. '18) received an honorable mention in NYU's University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Awards. Her dissertation "Voicing the Possible: Technique, Vocal Sound, and Black Women on the Musical Stage" examines embodied, racialized pedagogies of singing technique in order to excavate the ways that black women singers theorized the voice in US musical theatre performances from 1900 to 1970.