Alumna Nancy Guy (PhD '96) won a 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing on the subject of music, specifically the Bela Bartok Ethnomusicogy Award, for her book Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan (University of Illinois Press, 2005). The Awards presentation will take place on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at Lincoln Center in New York. Guy is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego.