Julie Hubbert, an associate professor of music history, has been award a distinguished National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The award will support a year’s leave of absence from her teaching responsibilities at the university to complete work on her book Technology, Listening and Labor: Music in New Hollywood Film (1967-1980). The National Endowment for the Humanities’ yearlong Fellowships, which are prestigious and highly sought after, are granted to scholars whose projects embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis and accessible writing.