Thesis: Cultures of Cargo: Trucking, Musical Media, and the Logistics of Punjabi Mobility
Davindar Singh is a Presidential Scholar and PhD candidate in ethnomusicology with a secondary field in anthropology. His dissertation project traces how changes in...
Leo received a B.A. in Music from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. His research focuses mostly on U.S. classical music institutions (especially orchestras) and how they attempt to serve various local and national interests. He is also interested in...
Thesis: Towards an Intermedial Poetics of Song: Studies in Twentieth-Century French Mélodie
Rachel H. Rosenman is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory. Her current dissertation project focuses on French lyric song around the turn of the twentieth century...
Eloy Ramirez is a Ph.D. student in Historical Musicology. He studied music education and bassoon at Texas State University before obtaining his MM in Musicology at the University of Arizona. Being a first-generation American citizen, expanding the...
Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes is a composer/pianist/vocalist known for large multidisciplinary projects and for his use of music to examine sociopolitical issues. Samora has performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, MoMA, the Sundance Film Festival, and...
Christina Misaki Nikitin is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at Harvard University. Her research examines the aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions of trans*gressive musical practices in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on how performers negotiate...
Thesis: Botanical Musicalities: Listening with Plant-Human Encounter
Cana (KAY-nuh) is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at Harvard University. Her research and teaching rely on methods from environmental studies and history of science to explore...
Thesis: Boomtown: How Music, Noise, and Vice Made the Mining West
Siriana’s research focuses on intersectional feminist critique of people and communities musicking throughout the American West in the late 19th century. Recent projects have included work...
Haley Heinricks is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at Harvard University. Her research investigates relationships between instruments (broadly construed) and musical encounters. Specifically, her dissertation focuses on the saxophone, adopting critical...