ILLINOIS MUSICOLOGY - Key Persons
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, University of California, Berkeley
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- Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Professor of Music History and Literature, St. Olaf College
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- President / CEO, Earth Music Foundation
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- Professor of Musicology, Wilfrid Laurier University
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- Principal Horn, Foothills Philharmonic Orchestra, Greenville, SC
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- Professor of Music, Austin Peay State University
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- Professor Emeritus of Music History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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- Professor Emerita of Music, University of Richmond
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, Luther College
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- Professor Emerita of Music, Clarke College
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- Professor Emeritus of Musicology
Bruno Nettl's main research interests are ethnomusicological theory and method, music of Native American cultures, and music of the Middle East, especially Iran. Professor Nettl has done field work with the Blackfoot people of Montana, and in Iran, Israel, and India, and he has an interest in the music history and folk music of his native Czech Republic. Professor Nettl has been focusing in recent years on the study of improvisatory music, the understanding of musical change throughout the world, and the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. He has published many articles and more than a dozen books, the best known being The Study of Ethnomusicology(1983), The Western Impact on World Music (1985), Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives (1989), Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Schools of Music (1995), and Encounters in Ethnomusicology (2002), a professional memoir. Certain of his books have been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Persian. Professor Nettl has received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, Carleton College, and Kenyon College. He is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Nettl has taught as visiting professor at Harvard, Northwestern, the universities of Chicago, Minnesota, Washington, and Texas, among others, and served as Benedict Distinguished Professor of Music at Carleton College. Most recently, he has published an edited collection (with coeditor Gabriel Solis), Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society (2009), and is the author of Nettl's Elephant: On the History of Ethnomusicology (2010). He continues teaching part-time in the University of Illinois School of Music.
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- Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Casey received her Bachelor's degree in Music History and Literature from Butler University in 2011, and her Master's in Musicology from the University of Illinois in 2015. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Musicology with a Graduate Minor in Gender and Women's Studies. Her research interests include the intersections of gender, indigeneity, and discourses of national belonging in hip hop and popular music in Morocco and North Africa. She also volunteers as a writing and math partner at Danville Correctional Center with UIUC's Education Justice Project and recently completed a year of service as an AmeriCorps volunteer at a non-profit adult education center in Chicago.
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- Professor of Harpsichord and Chair of the Harpsichord / Organ Division
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- Fellow
- Musicology and Assistant Director for Graduate Studies
Christina Bashford's main research interests are in performance history and the social and economic history of music. Her focus to date has been on musical culture in 19th- and early 20th-century Britain, particularly London, and this has resulted in a range of work on chamber music, concert institutions, audiences, program notes and listening practices. She has published articles and reviews in Music & Letters (winner, Jack Westrup Prize, 1991), the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the Journal of Victorian Culture, Musical Quarterly, Notes, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and Eighteenth-Century Music, and has contributed to several volumes of essays, including The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (2003) and The Musical Voyager: Berlioz in Europe (2007). Her book, The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London, was published by the Boydell Press in 2007. She also co-edited, with Leanne Langley, Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich (Oxford University Press, 2000). She is currently co-editing, with Roberta Marvin, a volume entitled The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World.
Prior to coming to Urbana-Champaign, Dr Bashford was on the faculty of Oxford Brookes University in England; before that she served as the Managing Editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. She is also a collaborator on the Concert Life in 19th-century London Database, a research project founded in 1997 with colleagues at the University of Leeds and Goldsmiths College, London. Now an active member of the North American British Music Studies Association, she hosted the society's fifth biennial conference here in July 2012. Her current work includes a project on violin culture in Britain and beyond, 1880-1930; an essay on the British violin press appeared in Music and Peformance Culture: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley (2012). She is also a member of In Concert, a collaborative project concerning the digitization and interrogation of archives for performance history, which is part of the UK's Transforming Musicology initiative.
Christina (Tina) Horton graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor's degree in Music Education. She started pursuing her Master's in Musicology at the University of Illinois in 2015. Tina's research focuses on Balinese gamelan in the United States, specifically within higher education institutions. She is an active member of the UIUC student gamelan, the UIUC community gamelan, and Bali Lantari. Tina also has experience researching Aaron Copland and the political aspects of his music, Ruth Crawford Seeger in relation to gender issues, and the life and recordings of Alan Lomax.
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- Dean of Arts and Architecture and Professor of Culture and Performance, University of California Los Angeles
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- Professor of Music History, University of Southern Mississippi
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, Wayne State University
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- Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains: Media, Technology, and Native American Music in the Late Twentieth Century
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- Lecturer, College of Continuing Education, University of Minnesota
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- My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, Oregon State University
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Michigan
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- Professor of Music and Director, Center for American Music, University of Pittsburgh
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- Acting Director of REEEC
- Professor of Musicology / Director, Balkanalia / Acting Director, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center ( REEEC )
A specialist in the musics of Bulgaria, the Balkans, Russia, and the Caucasus (especially Armenia and Georgia), Donna Buchanan's scholarly interests include acoustemology, performativity, postsocialism, and the implication of music in cosmology, social power, and identity politics. Her first book, Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition (University of Chicago Press, 2006, with accompanying CD-ROM), documents how the lives and musicianship of professional artists employed by Bulgaria's top national folkoric ensembles were impacted by a decade of turbulent political change surrounding the demise of Zhivkov's socialist regime in 1989. The editor of two anthologies, Balkan Popular Music and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse (Scarecrow Press, 2007, with accompanying VCD) and Soundscapes from the Americas: Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance (Ashgate, 2014), her articles have appeared in the Anthropology of East Europe Review, Balkanistica, the British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology, the International Journal of Musicology, and several edited collections.
Buchanan's scholarship has been funded by fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, Fulbright-Hays Program, International Research & Exchanges Board, and Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, as well as numerous campus awards. Named a 2017-18 Associate of the UI Center for Advanced Study, she is also the recipient of a 2018-19 NEH fellowship to support the writing of her current book, which explores the gendered, sonic, and spiritual power of bells in Bulgarian belief. Two additional major ongoing projects include an ethnographic study of music, dance, and commemorative heritage among Bulgarian Armenians; and research with Bulgarian female folkoric musicians and ritual practitioners whose artistry breaks with preexisting gender codes.
Buchanan teaches courses on the musical cultures of the Balkans, Russia, and Eurasia; world music; ethnomusicological theory and methodologies; and various selected topics, including music and cosmology, ethnomusicological perspectives on performance and performativity, and postsocialist sounds in the new Europe, among others. One of her greatest joys is directing and performing with Balkanalia, the University of Illinois Balkan Music Ensemble, which she established under the auspices of the School of Music and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) in 1998.
During 2018-19 Buchanan will serve as Acting Director of REEEC, a post that she held previously from 2004-07.
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- Director of Cultural Conservation, Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department Chair of Musicology and Professor Emeritus, West Liberty State College
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- Distinguished Professor of Music and Fine Arts, Associate Professor of Music History, Loyola University New Orleans
Ellen is interested in the music of the Brazilian northeast and of Brazilian communities in the U.S. Her current work focuses on female popular musicians in Recife, Pernambuco, the politics and aesthetics of self-production, and the construction of femininity in that region. She is co-leader and co-founder of the recently minted UIUC Brazilian Armorial Orchestra, performing on cello and rabeca with that ensemble. Before coming to the University of Illinois, Ellen was involved with the all women's Samba-Reggae band Batalá Washington as a researcher and performer, in Washington D.C. In 2014-2015, she completed a one-year internship in applied ethnomusicology at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, where she conducted archival research related to intellectual property rights, royalties, and music production. This experience sparked her interest in UNESCO, state-sponsored cultural products, and issues of intangible cultural heritage, which she continues to explore in her current research.
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, Kentucky Wesleyan College
Emmanuel is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary areas of research are American popular music culture and African American sacred music practices. Currently he is working on his dissertation entitled "You are Important to Me, I Need You to Survive: Constructing Community through College Gospel Choirs." In addition to his research, Emmanuel serves on the recurring faculty for the annual Berea College Festival of Spirituals and is the former exhibitions chairperson for The National Symposium on Multicultural Music sponsored by the National Association for Music Education and The University of Tennessee.
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- Associate Professor of Music Studies, University of Auckland
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- Associate Professor, Music, African American Studies, and Anthropology Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Senior Fellow 2013 - 2015
- Division Chair
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- Associate Professor of Musicology
Gayle Magee's scholarship and teaching focus on contemporary music, film music, and American music. Magee's current book project, Music in the Films of Robert Altman: From M*A*S*H to Prairie Home Companion (Oxford University Press, Music/Media Series), was supported by an NEH Summer Stipend in 2012.
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- Associate Professor of Music, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Hilary Brady Morris is a PhD candidate preparing for dissertation fieldwork in the Boudhanath neighborhood of eastern Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Her research uses organological methods for an ethnographic study and analysis of a family of Himalayan lutes (including the Sherpa dongmen, Tamang tungna, and Tibetan dranyen) in Nepal in order to investigate intersections of music and belonging, as experienced in a culturally diverse, diasporic, cosmpolitan, and urban context. Previous research topics have included togetherness of an online music community, and Irish music collections of the late 18th century. Additionally, Morris plays the Japanese koto, and co-lead the UIUC Koto Club Ensemble in the 2016-2017 academic year.
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- Professor Emeritus of Music History, University of Richmond
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- Assistant Professor, University of Guelph
Originally from the UK, Ian is a PhD candidate in Musicology at UIUC, finishing his dissertation on music and trust in Colombia. His ethnographic fieldwork was with charity and roots organizations that target young people, using music to reduce violence. He focuses on the ways in which music-making is related to generating and sustaining forms of trusting that are amenable to peaceful coexistence. This is particularly important in Colombia, which has experienced the longest running civil conflict in the western hemisphere. Ian's was a multi-site study in the city of Cali in the country's South West, as well as various urban and rural sites in Northern Colombia. It was supported by two grants from UIUC and the Society for Ethnomusicology 21st Century Fellowship. Ian maintains an active musical life as a songwriter and performer in Latin American and African (diaspora) groups on percussion, guitar and vocals.
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Hartford
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- Associate Professor of Music, Arizona State University
After finishing his master's thesis on Black drum and bugle corps from the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the creation of Black identities through music and community in urban spaces, Jamil continues to center his doctoral research around socially disenfranchised groups of people within the drum corps activity. Jamil's other interests are in American popular music, marching music, Beyoncé, and West African and Latin music and dance. He is also a Mellon Mays Fellow.
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- Professor of Music, Washington University
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- Director Professor of Music and Theatre
Jeffrey Magee teaches and writes about music in the United States, especially jazz, musical theater, and popular song. His interests include a variety of African-American traditions, issues of Jewish-American musical identity, and black-Jewish intersections. He is the author of The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz (Oxford, 2005), which won the Irving Lowens Award for Best Book in American Music from the Society for American Music, as well as an award for excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. His second book, Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater(Oxford, 2012), was supported as a We the People Project of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Magee has published articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society,American Music, Black Music Research Journal, Current Musicology, and Musical Quarterly, and a chapter, "Ragtime and Early Jazz," in The Cambridge History of American Music. He has given public lectures at the Library of Congress, Harvard University, and several other colleges and universities. His voice may be heard on documentary series "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life," narrated by Susan Sarandon and widely aired on public radio.
Before joining the Illinois faculty, he taught at Indiana University (1997-2006), and served as executive editor of the score series Music of the United States of America at the University of Michigan (1993-97). He has been editorial board member of the Journal of Musicology, Jazz Perspectives, and the Center for Black Music Research, and is co-editor of the book series Profiles in Popular Music for Indiana University Press. He currently serves on the American Musicological Society's Publications Committee and on the editorial board of The Journal of the American Musicological Society. Professor Magee became the Director of the School of Music in 2013 after serving for a year as interim Director.
Jessica's interests include Caribbean and Latin American music and dance, with a particular concentration on carnival celebrations. Her current research is centered on Alibabá carnival groups in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and New York City. Previous research includes music-making among Haitian populations in the Dominican Republic as well.
Jonathan's research focuses on music in the global Armenian community. His Master's project involves music-making in the Armenian diaspora community of Toronto, Canada, and the musical manifestations of politics and collective memory. He has received Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships to study both Russian and Eastern Armenian.
Originally from South Carolina, Jonathan received a BA in music (emphasis organ performance) from Lander University in Greenwood, SC and an MM in music (musicology) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on Sacred Harp singing and the intersection of space and imaginaries in the U.S. and Ireland. Before attending Illinois he received grants from the Alabama Folklife Association and the National Endowment for the Arts for Sacred Harp fieldwork and public programs in Alabama. Jonathon is also a chimesplayer at Illinois' Altgeld Hall bell tower.
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- Professor Emerita of Musicology, University of Cincinnati, College - Conservatory of Music
Katie's research focuses on American popular entertainment during World War II. Her dissertation examines how popular culture, and more specifically the output of Frank Sinatra, affected American teenage girls and worked to mold and express their identities, sexuality, and independence during the 1940s. Katie's work spans multiple areas, including music, radio, film, and reception studies. She has presented her research at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for American Music.
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- Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Minnesota
Kelli's primary research interests include poetry and song in the Middle Ages, performativity, book culture, and the history of musical notation. She is also interested in gendered organology and cultural studies in American popular music. She enjoys playing fiddle, finger-style guitar, and other period string instruments (lute, viola da gamba, and vielle). She often performs with the Flatland Consort and at various small venues in the CU area.
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- Professor Emerita of Music, California State University, Fresno
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- Professor of Music, College of DuPage
Liliana is currently completing fieldwork in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel, funded by a Fulbright IIE Fellowship, The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) Fellowship, and the Gendell Family and Shiner Family Fellowship. Her work investigates remembrances of Iraq in the personal musical improvisations of elderly Iraqi Jews, and the intersection of memory, trauma, violence, and nostalgia articulated therein.
Lucas Henry is a PhD student in the musicology department at UIUC and a FLAS fellow at UIUC's European Union Center. He studies jazz and popular music, the European Union, music festivals, and transnationalism and holds masters degrees in Jazz Studies from Rutgers and American history from East Tennessee State University. Before coming to Illinois he taught jazz and world music courses for the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia, American history courses at Radford University in Virginia, and saxophone at East Tennessee State. Lucas has also spent ten years working as a librarian at Temple, Virginia Tech, and East Tennessee State.
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- Dean of Faculty and Instructor in French Horn and Music Theory, Brattleboro Music Center
Maia Williams Perez studies how the musical revivals of 19th-century England engage with issues of nationalism and domestic culture. At Boston University, her master's thesis focused on period instruments and material culture's role in Arnold Dolmetsch's revival, and she presented some of this research at AMS-New England's fall 2015 conference. She will also be presenting another paper, "From Exhibition to Concert-Hall: Period Instruments at the End of the 19th Century" at the North American Victorian Studies Association's annual conference in the fall of 2017. Her other interests include musical and literary intersections as well as issues of gender in the music of 18th century France and England.
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- Interim Head Music Librarian, Hargrove Music Library, University of California at Berkeley
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- Visiting Professor of Music, University of Chicago
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- Professor and Bock Chair in Agricultural Law, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
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- Professor of Music, Smith College
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- Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music History and Literature, SUNY Oswego
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- Associate Professor of Music History and Literature, Georgia State University
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- Dean, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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- Associate Professor of Music History, West Virginia University
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- Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Music, University of Chicago
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- Assistant Professor of Music History, Baldwin Wallace College
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- Owner, Priceless Books, Urbana, Illinois
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- Assistant Professor of Musicology
- Director of Nação Terra
- Specialist
Michael Silvers is an ethnomusicologist and a specialist in Brazilian music and ecomusicology (the study of music and the environment). His research interests also include sound studies, music and technology, cultural sustainability, and music, gender, and sexuality.
His forthcoming book Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil (University of Illinois Press, 2018) explores themes of environmental justice, natural resources, protest song, and cultural policy in the production and experience of popular music. Voices of Drought was awarded an American Musicological Society Publication Subvention, supported by the Dragan Plamenac Endowment, as well as a subvention grant from the UIUC College of Fine and Applied Arts. His article "Birdsong and a Song about a Bird: Popular Music and the Mediation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Northeastern Brazil," published in Ethnomusicology and reprinted in Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, 2 nd edition (Routledge, 2017), earned an honorable mention for best faculty research in the humanities by the University of Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. In addition to Ethnomusicology, his writing has appeared in Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, and Ecomusicology Newsletter, and he is a contributor to the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. He also presents regularly at universities and conferences in the United States and Brazil. Silvers is co-chair of the Ecomusicology Special Insterest Group of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2016-present), is a member of the editorial board of Ecomusicology Review, and is a member of the advisory board of Ethnomusicology Review.
In 2015 he was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, in 2015-17 a Junior Fellow of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and in 2018 will be a resident associate of the Center for Advanced Study. His research has also been supported by the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, the Campus Research Board, Fulbright-mtvU, and the UCLA Latin American Institute, among other sources. He is a member of the Diverse Environmentalisms Research Team (DERT), a multi-institutional research group based out of Indiana University, and is also a project coordinator for a Humanities Without Walls project, "Field to Media: Applied Musicology for a Changing Climate," led by Mark Pedelty at the University of Minnesota.
Silvers is faculty director of Nação Terra do Milho, the University of Illinois Brazilian Armorial Ensemble. He teaches courses on Brazilian music, world music, ethnomusicological theory and methods, music, gender, and sexuality, and topics in ecomusicology. He previously taught at UCLA and UC Riverside.
Molly is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology. Her dissertation focuses on the sounds in school instructional films from the 1940s and 1950s, investigating both the development of cultural musical codes among the baby boomer generation as well as the contribution of music to ideological positions in instructional films. Molly's other research interests are music history pedagogy, percussion ensemble literature, and music of ephemeral films. She teaches music history at Central Michigan University, serves as the Treasurer for the College Music Society's Great Lakes Chapter, and is on the Editorial Board of the Percussive Notes Online Research Edition. Molly is also an active percussionist and performs regularly with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra.
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- Professor of Music, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, McMaster University
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- Professor of Music, Northeastern Illinois University
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- Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Music, University of Chicago
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- Professor of Ethnomusicology, CUNY Graduate Center
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- Chairman, Department of Music, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
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- Music Librarian, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
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- Professor of Music and Graduate Advisor for Ethnomusicology, Harvard University
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- Music Program Coordinator, Algoma University College
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, Agnes Scott College
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- Professor Emeritus of Musicology, University of Minnesota
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- Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro
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- Music and Coordinator of Music History, Temple University
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- Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, University of Michigan
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- Research Scholar, School of Music, University of Illinois
- Visiting Associate Professor of Musicology Research Scholar, School of Music
Susan Parisi's research has primarily centered on music and performance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She has published on early opera; monody; Monteverdi; Frescobaldi; Francesco Rasi; spectacle and pageantry in Italian and Northern cities and courts; music and theater in Mantua's Jewish community; French tragédie en musique; and opera buffa by Mozart's contemporary Ferdinando Rutini. Her archival discoveries concerning Monteverdi and Frescobaldi are published in the proceedings of international conferences and also incorporated in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and in an Ashgate volume (2011) of selected "ground-breaking" contributions to Monteverdi scholarship. Parisi has edited four books: Music in the Theater, Church, and Villa: Essays in Honor of Robert Lamar Weaver and Norma Wright Weaver (2000), Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes (with Colleen Reardon, 2004), Fiori Musicali: Liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger(with Claire Fontijn, 2010), and The Music Library of a Noble Florentine Family: A Catalogue Raisonné of Manuscripts and Prints of the 1720s to the 1850s collected by the Ricasoli Family…, with introductory essays by Robert Lamar Weaver (2012). A recent article appears in Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts, ed. Mara R. Wade (2014), a volume that grew out of an interdisciplinary Mellon conference held at UIUC. Others of her articles and reviews are published in the Journal of Musicology, Studi Musicali,Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, The Eighteenth Century, New Grove, New Grove Opera, Notes, and Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, and in Festschrift volumes for Lewis Lockwood, Warren Kirkendale, and Albert Dunning.
Dr. Parisi has taught at the University of Illinois, Millikin University, and University of Nevada, Reno, and for a number of years was on the faculty of the University of Louisville. Her research has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright Commission, Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, University of Louisville, and University of Illinois Research Board, among other entities. From 2004-12 she served as series editor of the Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, Harmonie Park Press.
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- Professor Emeritus of Musicology, University of Iowa
Tara is interested in ecomusicology and music as it relates to community advocacy, indigenous knowledge, and cosmology. Her previous research has centered around Balinese gamelan, which continues to be a primary focus. She has played and performed with a number of ensembles in the United States and Bali since 2010. She currently participates in both the class and community ensembles at the University of Illinois. For her master's research, she is focusing on intersections of music with educational and environmental advocacy and activism in Tanzania.
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- Professor of Music, Arizona State University
Thornton is a PhD Candidate in Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received four Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships, the Cultures of Law in Global Contexts Fellowship, the Title VIII Fellowship for Russian study, and is pursuing a doctoral minor in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies." His dissertation research is on the agency of music professionals involved in Anglo-Soviet Britten cultural exchange during the Cold War. He has presented his research in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and he is contributing a chapter to the forthcoming volume Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art.
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- Professor of Music, Colorado College
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- Professor of Musicology, Vanderbilt University
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- Professor Emeritus of Music, Arizona State University
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- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder