Kira Thurman

{{Short description|American historian and musicologist}}

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Kira Thurman is an American historian and musicologist.{{Cite magazine |date=2022-03-17 |title=Classical Music's Iron Curtain |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/classical-musics-iron-curtain |access-date=2022-06-03 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}} She was a 2017 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow.{{Cite web |title=Kira Thurman |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/person/kira-thurman/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=American Academy |language=en-US}}

She is a classically trained pianist who grew up in Vienna.{{cite web | url=https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/thurmank.html | title=Kira Thurman | U-M LSA History }} She graduated from University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music. She is a professor at University of Michigan.{{Cite web |title=Kira Thurman {{!}} U-M LSA History |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/thurmank.html |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=lsa.umich.edu |language=en}}

Her article, "Performing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German National Identity in Interwar Central Europe" won the Central European Historical Society's Annelise Thimme prize for best article published in 2019/2020.{{Cite web |title=2020 Annelise Thimme Article Prize – Central European History Society |url=https://www.centraleuropeanhistory.org/?page_id=585 |access-date=2023-04-03 |language=en-US}}

Singing like Germans has thus far won seven prizes: the Marfield Prize (National Award for Arts Writing), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Gleason Book Award, the German Studies Association's DAAD prize for best book in History/Social Sciences,https://www.thegsa.org/prizes/daadgsa-book-prizes/daadgsa-book-prize-history-social-science the Royal Musical Association's Best Monograph Prize,{{Cite web |title=RMA/Cambridge University Press Book Prize 2022 – Royal Musical Association |url=https://www.rma.ac.uk/2022/10/23/rma-cambridge-university-press-book-prize-2022/ |access-date=2023-04-03 |language=en-GB}} the American Historical Association's George Mosse Prize,{{Cite web |title=George L. Mosse Prize Recipients {{!}} AHA |url=https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/george-l-mosse-prize-recipients |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=www.historians.org}} the American Musicological Society's Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award,{{cite web | url=https://www.amsmusicology.org/news/622412/2022-AMS-Award-Winners.htm | title=2022 AMS Award Winners - American Musicological Society }} and the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (honorable mention).{{Cite web |title=Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic... |url=https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/Biennial-Prize-and-Award-Winners/Aldo-and-Jeanne-Scaglione-Prize-for-Studies-in-Germanic-Languages-and-Literatures-Winners |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=Modern Language Association |language=en}} NPR named it one of the Best Books of 2021.{{Cite web |title=Books We Love |url=https://apps.npr.org/best-books/ |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=NPR |language=en-US}}