Current Musicology StudentsBabak Kashfi YeganehSTUDENT PROFILE Babak Kashfi Yeganeh is a first year Ph.D. student in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. He holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from Tehran University of Art, and M.A in musicology from University of Victoria in Canada. His master’s thesis is titled “Dave Brubeck and White Middlebrow:…
Current Musicology StudentsSven JosephSTUDENT PROFILE Sven Joseph is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Musicology department at the Eastman School of Music. He earned a B.A. in Music from California State University, Sacramento, where he studied both percussion and piano while cultivating his interests in musicological research. In recent years, he has delivered a grant-supported…
Current Musicology StudentsBronwen McVeighSTUDENT PROFILE Bronwen McVeigh holds an MS in Medical Humanities and Bioethics from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry where she was honored as the “most exceptional” master’s degree candidate at URMC. Additionally, she earned a BM in piano performance and composition at Michigan State University where she was…
Current Musicology StudentsEmmalouise St. AmandSTUDENT PROFILE Emmalouise St. Amand is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology. Her research explores issues of embodiment and voice in Black girls’ singing groups of the 1950s and 60s. Her writing is forthcoming in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (2024), and she has presented work at the annual meetings of…
Current Musicology StudentsAnthony LaLenaSTUDENT PROFILE Anthony LaLena holds a B.M. from The State University of New York at Fredonia, an M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music, and a DMA from the Eastman School of Music in classical guitar performance with a minor in historical performance practice. His research explores the intersections of modernist music…
Current Musicology StudentsNick AndersonSTUDENT PROFILE Nick Anderson holds a B.S. in Astronomy/Physics and a B.A. in Music from the University of Virginia. His research interests center on Japanese popular music, particularly city pop and its online afterlives. In parallel, he explores internet circulation and virtual performance through the filter of vaporwave, future funk, and related…
Current Musicology StudentsStephen JohnsonSTUDENT PROFILE Stephen Johnson received his B.M. in Music Education and M.A. in Musicology from Indiana University. His dissertation discusses North Korean revolutionary opera and the ways it both constructs and responds to juche ideology across the twentieth century. He has presented on the topic at the American Musicological Society, the Society…
Current Musicology StudentsRyan BlakeleySTUDENT PROFILE Ryan Blakeley is a Ph.D. in Musicology candidate at the Eastman School of Music and holds an M.A. in Music and B.Sc. in Biomedical Science from the University of Ottawa. His dissertation investigates how digital platforms like music streaming services are shaping listening habits, creative practices, and the music industry.…
Current Musicology StudentsSheridan ZahlSTUDENT PROFILE Sheridan Zahl earned a B.A. in music and a B.A. in applied mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2014. After years spent on the West Coast teaching mathematics to underserved student populations he moved to New York and earned an M.M. from the Eastman School of Music…
Current Musicology StudentsEleanor PriceSTUDENT PROFILE Eleanor Price (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. Her dissertation project explores the generic and socio-political boundaries of thirteenth-century motets and is supported by the M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Endowment for research in France and the Susan B. Anthony Institute. She has presented…
