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Education
Ph.D. in Musicology, UCSB (2011)
M.A. in Musicology, UCSB (2007)
B.A. in Music, Lawrence University (2003)
Certificate in College and University Teaching, UCSB (2011)
Academic Appointments
Occidental College (2011-2012)
Adjunct Instructor, Music History & Cultural Studies
Publications
Eight entries in Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, including "Mechanical Instruments," "Player Piano," "Theremin," and "Toy Instruments" (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Review of Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Change Music by Mark Katz.
Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 2008)
Selected Presentations
“Recording the Musical Past: The Harpsichord and the Phonograph, 1920-1930,” American Musical Instrument Society Annual Meeting; Library of Congress, May 2010.
“The Death and Second Life of the Harpsichord,” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting; Nashville, Tennessee, November 2008.
“Who’s Playing the Player Piano—and Can the Talking Machine Sing?: Shifting Perceptions of Musical Agency in the Early 20th Century,” American Musical Instrument Society Annual Meeting; New Haven, July 2007; and ‘On the Record’ Symposium; UCSB, April 2007.
“A Solo Orchestra Brought Within the Home: The History and Development of the Aeolian Orchestrelle,”
Musicology, Music Theory, and Ethnomusicology Forum; UCSB, May 2006.
“Figaro! Figaro! Figaro?: The Intersection of Animation and Opera in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies,” Music and the Moving Image: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference; UCSB, January 2006.
Honors and Awards
UCSB Music Deparment Outstanding Service Award (2010)
Awarded annually to the graduate student who has given the most outstanding service to the department, as determined by faculty vote
William E. Gribbon Memorial Award for Student Travel (2010)
To attend the American Musical Instrument Society’s annual meeting at the Library of Congress
UCSB Humanities Research Assistantship (2009-2010)
A year-long fellowship providing full financial support for a student in the humanities or fine arts, awarded in support of doctoral research
Albert and Elaine Borchard European Studies Fellowship (2009-2010)
A fellowship in support of archival research undertaken in the Europe
UCSB Humanities Research Assistantship (2008-2009)
A year-long fellowship providing full financial support for a student in the humanities or fine arts, awarded in support of doctoral research
Frederick R. Selch Award (2007)
Awarded to the best student paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society for “Who’s Playing the Player Piano—and Can the Talking Machine Sing?: Shifting Perceptions of Musical Agency in the Early 20th Century”
William E. Gribbon Memorial Award for Student Travel (2007)
To attend the American Musical Instrument Society’s annual meeting in New Haven, Connecticut
William E. Gribbon Memorial Award for Student Travel (2006)
To attend the American Musical Instrument Society’s annual meeting in Vermillion, South Dakota
Stanley Krebs Memorial Prize in Musicology (2005)
Awarded annually by the UCSB Department of Music to the best paper in musicology for “Baroque Vivification, Rustic Evocation: Wanda Landowska and Francis Poulenc’s Concert Champêtre”
Professional Affiliations
American Musicological Society
American Musical Instrument Society
Society for American Music
Organizations
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music, UCSB
Secretary, 2006-2011
Board Member, 2005-2011
Professional Activities
On the Record: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (April 13, 2007)
Co-organizer of a symposium which explored the study of record music from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and was hosted by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Music and the Moving Image: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (January 14-15, 2006)
Lead organizer of a two-day long international graduate conference on music and visual media hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara