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Education

Ph.D. in Musicology, UCSB (in progress)

M.A. in Musicology, UCSB (2007)

B.A. in Music, Lawrence University (2003)

Professional Affiliations

American Musicological Society

American Musical Instrument Society

Society for American Music

 

Selected Presentations

“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.

 

Publications

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)

 

Honors and Awards

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”

 

Organizations

Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music, UCSB
Secretary, 2006-2010
Board Member, 2005-2010

 

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-scope graduate conference on music and visual media hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara