Kira Thurman is an American historian and musicologist.
[2] She is a classically trained pianist who grew up in Vienna.
[3] She graduated from University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music.
[4] 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.
[5][3] 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,[6] the Royal Musical Association's Best Monograph Prize,[7] the American Historical Association's George Mosse Prize,[8] the American Musicological Society's Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award,[9] and the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (honorable mention).