Devon J Borowski studies the cultural history of song as a practice, object, and idea in the long eighteenth century, with a focus on opera and other forms of vocal music around Great Britain and its colonial empire. His research brings together queer...
Known for her elegant conducting style and efficient and engaging approach to rehearsals, Dr. Hana J. Cai is a conductor and music director based in Lexington, MA. She is currently on faculty at Harvard University serving as the Associate Director of...
Michèle Duguay (she/her) is a music theorist specializing in popular music, gender studies, and computer-assisted music analysis. Her work has been published in Music Theory Online, the Journal of the Society for American Music, Music Theory Spectrum, the...
Richard K. Wolf, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University, began teaching in the Music Department at Harvard in 1999. He has been conducting ethnomusicological research in South Asia since 1982 and in...
On leave 2025-2026
van Orden specializes in the cultural history of early modern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean, book history, and popular music (mostly 16th-c, but also in the 1960s). Her latest book is Songs in Unexpected Places, on polyglot...
On leave Spring 2026
Hans Tutschku has composed music for film, theatre, and ballet as well as instrumental and electroacoustic music. He has also conceived several sound installations, interactive sound sculptures, and published articles on sound...
Yosvany Terry is an internationally acclaimed Cuban musician, American composer, saxophonist, percussionist, bandleader, educator and cultural bearer of the Afro-Cuban tradition. He has played with Branford Marsalis, Rufus Reid, Dave Douglas, Steve...
Anne C. Shreffler’s research interests include the musical avant-garde after 1945 in Europe and America, with special emphasis on the political and ideological associations of new music. Other research interests include historiography, composers in...
On leave 2025-2026
Rehding is a music theorist with a focus on intellectual history and media theory. This has taken his work in a number of different directions from Ancient Greek music to the Eurovision Song Contest—and even into outer space. His...
On leave Spring 2026
Oja’s research focuses on the history of American music and culture. Her most recent book, Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Oxford University Press) received the Music in American Culture Award from the...