Biography

Dr. Aimee E. González is a music historian and ethnomusicologist who specializes in Latin American and Caribbean music making, global early music, and cultural heritage. Her current book project explores the use of the past in the present through processes of heritage, focusing on Cuba’s revival of its colonial-era Catholic sacred music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her secondary research area centers on intersections between women’s devotion, art, and motets for female saints in fifteenth-century France. 

Dr. González holds a PhD in music history with a certificate in Latin American and Caribbean studies from the University of Chicago (summer 2025). She is a proud alumna of the University of Florida, where she received her BM in violin performance, BA in political science, and MM in musicology. Dr. González has also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was formerly a music publicist at Carnegie Hall. Her research has been supported by the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and the Tinker Foundation.