Musicology
Recently completed PhD dissertations in Musicology
Eastman Graduates with the PhD in Musicology are working in universities and colleges across North America. Places of employment include Yale, UCLA, Vassar, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Dickinson, Skidmore, Franklin and Marshall, University of Arkansas, Pennsylvania State University, Brigham Young, University of New Hampshire, Cincinnati College Conservatory, North Carolina School of the Arts, Oxford College of Emory University, Bowling Green State University, Western Michigan University, SUNY Geneseo, Ithaca College, Nazareth College (Rochester), University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, Mount Allison University, and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Other graduates work in administrative positions at the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Packard Institute for the Humanities.
| Author (Last) | First name | Year | Title | Advisor(s) | Now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VanZalen | Alexis | 2020 | Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers and the Rhetoric of French Catholic Reform | Roger Freitas | AmeriCorps VISTA member, financial wellness specialist |
| Green | John | 2020 | “Available to our Ears”: John Cage and Broadcast Media | Lisa Jakelski | Music Teacher, Columbus West Elementary |
| Cornish | Gabrielle | 2020 | Sounding Socialist, Sounding Modern: Music, Technology, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Union, 1956-1975 | Lisa Jakelski | Faculty, The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami |
| Blaszkiewicz | Jacek | 2018 | City Myths: Music and Urbanism in Second-Empire Paris | Ralph Locke | Faculty, Wayne State University |
| Lubarsky | Eric | 2018 | Reviving Early Music: Metaphors and Modalities of Life and Living in Historically Informed Performance | Melina Esse | Senior Editor, Carnegie Hall |
| Steigerwald Ille | Megan | 2018 | Bringing Down the House: Situating and Mediating Opera in the Twenty-First Century | Melina Esse | Faculty, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati |
| Kehrer | Lauron | 2017 | Beyond Beyoncé: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Hip-Hop ca. 2010-2016 | Lisa Jakelski | Faculty, University of Western Michigan |
| Fuchs Sampson | Sarah | 2016 | Technologies of Singing, Teaching, and Spectating in French Operatic Culture, 1870-1914 | Melina Esse | Faculty, Syracuse University |
| James | C. Aaron | 2016 | Transforming the Motet: Sigmund Salminger and the Adaptation and Reuse of Frenco-Flemish Polyphony in Reformation Augsburg | Honey Meconi | Music Director, Toronto Oratory |
| Cassidy-Heacock | Tyler | 2015 | The Sung Self of Syllables: Interpretive Paradigms for Contemporary Vocal Music | Holly Watkins | Assistant Director of Development, Hochstein School of Music & Dance.” |
| Compton | Regina | 2015 | The Recitativo Semplice in Handel's Operas for the First Royal Academy of Music, 1720-1728. | Roger Freitas | Lead software engineer, Brighthive |
| Sermer | Tanya | 2015 | "The Battle for the Soul of Jerusalem": Musical Language, Public Performance, and Competing Discourses of the Israeli Nation-State | Ellen Koskoff | Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Artistic Producer of the Jerusalem Oratorio Choir |
| Weaver | Anne Marie | 2015 | Art Song in Nineteenth-Century Russia: An International Exploration | Ralph Locke | Independent scholar |
| Ehman | Caroline | 2013 | Reimagining Faust in Postmodern Opera | Ralph Locke | Faculty, Brandon University |
| Housez | Lara | 2013 | Becoming Stephen Sondheim: Anyone Can Whistle, A Pray by Blecht, Company and Sunday in the Park with George | Kim Kowalke | Part-time instructor, McMaster University; private voice studio; vocal recitalist |
| Kintner | Amy | 2013 | "She's So Busy Being Free": The Dynamics of Utopia in Popular Music by Women, 1968-2008 | Holly Watkins | Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer |
| Krishnamurthy | Rohan | 2013 | Virtual Gurukulavasa: Tradition and Innovation in Online Carnatic Percussion Pedagogy | Ellen Koskoff | Professional mridangam player |
| Fava | Cristina | 2012 | Music and Politics in New York City in the 1930s | Kim Kowalke | Faculty, Western Michigan University |
| Morrow | Matthew | 2012 | "Complex Impressions": Nature in the Music and Criticism of Claude Debussy | Holly Watkins | Independent scholar |
| Stefaniak | Alexander | 2012 | Poetic Virtuosity: Robert Schumann as a Critic and Composer of Virtuoso Instrumental Music | Ralph Locke | Faculty, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Teal | Kimberly | 2012 | Living Traditions: Embodying Heritage in Contemporary Jazz Performance | Melina Esse | Faculty, University of Arkansas |
| Kim | Cindy | 2011 | Changing Meanings of Ornamentation in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera | Melina Esse | Independent scholar |
| Ronyak | Jennifer | 2010 | Performing the Lied, Performing the Self: Singing Subjectivity in Germany, 1790-1832 | Holly Watkins | Senior Scientist, Institut für Musikästhetik, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Graz, Austria) |
| Mowrey | Hannah | 2010 | The Alamire Manuscripts of Frederick the Wise: Intersections of Music, Art, and Theology | Honey Meconi | Director, Redeemer Center for Worship and Music; adjunct professor for music and worship, Redeemer Seminary |
| Axtell | Katherine | 2009 | Maiden Voyage: The Genesis and Reception of Show Boat, 1926-1932 | Kim Kowalke | Part-time instructor, James Madison University School of Music |
| Dean | Alexander | 2009 | The Five-Course Guitar and Seventeenth-Century Harmony: Alfabeto and Italian Song | Roger Freitas | Editor, A-R Editions |
| Nedbal | Martin | 2009 | Morals Across the Footlights: Viennese Singspiel, National Identity, and the Aesthetics of Morality, c. 1770-1820 | Ralph Locke | Faculty, University of Kansas |
| Martinez Figueroa | Adriana | 2009 | Music and the Binational Imagination: The Musical Nationalisms of Mexico and the United States in the Context of the Binational Relationship, 1890-2009 | Ellen Koskoff | Faculty, Eureka College (Eureka, IL) |
| Alajaji | Sylvia | 2009 | Diasporic Communities and Negotiated Identities: Trauma, Recovery, and the Search for the Armenian Musical Voice | Ellen Koskoff | Faculty, Franklin and Marshall College |
| Lott | Marie Sumner | 2008 | Audience and Style in Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music, c. 1830 to 1880 | Ralph Locke | Faculty, Georgia State University |
| Brodsky | Seth | 2007 | Utopian Strains: Berio, Ligeti, Rihm and Lachenmann | Jürgen Thym and Daniel Albright | Faculty, University of Chicago |
| Adler | Ayden | 2007 | “Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music”: Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, 1930-1950 | Kim Kowalke | Faculty at DePauw University |
| Wlodarski | Amy | 2006 | The Sounds of Memory: German Musical Representations of the Holocaust, 1945-1965 | Kim Kowalke | Faculty and director of the College Choir, Dickinson College |
| Nicholson | Sara | 2006 | Beyond Quotation: Intertextuality in Popular Music Since 1990 | Martin Scherzinger | Independent scholar |
| Grimshaw | Jeremy | 2005 | Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: Compositional Practice, Biography, and Cosmology in the Music of La Monte Young | Kim Kowalke | Faculty, Brigham Young University |
| Roth | Marjorie | 2005 | The Voice of Prophecy: Orlando di Lasso’s Sibyls and Italian Humanism | Kerala J. Snyder | Professor of music, Nazareth College |
| Wells | Elizabeth | 2004 | West Side Story(s): Changing Perspectives on an American Musical | Ralph P. Locke | Chair of music and holder of Pickard-Bell chair in music, Mt. Allison College |
| Pelkey | Stanley | 2004 | British National Identities and Keyboard Music in the Later Georgian Period | Ralph P. Locke | Director, School of Music, University of Kentucky |
| Mak | Su Yin Suzanna | 2004 | Structure, Design, and Rhetoric: Schubert’s Lyricism Reconsidered | Gretchen Wheelock and David Beach | Faculty, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Haskins | Robert | 2004 | An Anarchic Society of Sounds: The Number Pieces of John Cage | Jürgen Thym and Robert Morris | Faculty, University of New Hampshire |
| Carli | Philip | 2003 | Synergy in America's Early Talking Machine Industry: Technological, Commercial, Cultural, and Musical Factors in Band and Orchestral Recordings, 1894-1917 | Ralph P. Locke | Conductor, Flower City Society Orchestra; silent film accompanist |
| Kalyn | Andrea | 2002 | Constructing a Nation's Music: Howard Hanson's American Composer's Concerts and Festivals of American Music, 1925-71 | Kim Kowalke | Dean of the Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College and Conservatory |
| Bittmann | Antonius | 2001 | Negotiating Past and Present: Max Reger and Fin-de-siècle Modernisms | Jürgen Thym and Ralph P. Locke | Professor of musicology and organ, Rutgers University |
| Reynolds | Anne-Marie | 1998 | The Songs of Carl Nielsen | Alfred Mann | Faculty, Geneseo, State University of New York |
| Dodds | Michael | 1998 | The Baroque Church Tones in Theory and Practice | Kerala J. Snyder | Faculty, North Carolina School of the Arts |
| Frandsen | Mary | 1997 | The Sacred Concerto in Dresden, ca. 1660-1680 | Kerala J. Snyder | Faculty; director of resources and outreach, Notre Dame University |
| Loveland | Karl | 1996 | Reading Donizetti's La fille du régiment: Genesis, Transformations, and Interpretations | Ralph P. Locke | Vice president and product manager, Citi; formerly assistant professor, University of Toledo |
| Parmer | Dillon | 1995 | Brahms the Programmatic? A Critical Assessment | Jürgen Thym | Faculty and director of undergraduate studies, University of Ottawa School of Music |
| McClung | Bruce D. | 1995 | American Dreams: Analyzing Moss Hart, Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark | Kim Kowalke | Faculty, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music |
| Levitz | Tamara | 1994 | Teaching New Classicality: Busoni's Master Class in Composition, 1921-1924 | Kim Kowalke | Professor of musicology, UCLA |
| Buch | Laura | 1993 | Seconda prattica and the Aesthetic of Meraviglia: The Canzonettas and Madrigals of Tomaso Pecci (1576-1604) | Patrick Macey | Staff editor, C. P. E. Bach, The Complete Works |
| Wilson | Richard Todd | 1992 | The Development of the German Keyboard Canzona and its Reflection in the Work of Gottlieb Muffat | Alfred Mann | |
| Archetto | Maria | 1991 | Francesco Portinaro and the Academies of the Veneto in the Sixteenth Century | Patrick Macey | Faculty, Oxford College of Emory University |
| Natvig | Mary | 1991 | The Latin-texted Works of Antoine Busnois | Patrick Macey | Professor of musicology, Bowling Green State University |
