SOF Alum David Gutkin one of thirty-six early career faculty members to receive Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards, an honor that is accompanied by a $75,000 grant, mentoring opportunities, and institutional recognition. Gutkin is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the Peabody Institute. Gutkin’s research focuses on technologies of mediating music (from notation to television), theories of race and modernity, the history of globalization, and relationships between musical experience and historical memory.