Current Graduate Students

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Hesam Abedi

PhD Program, Ethnomusicology | Persian Classical Music, Middle East Music, Microtonal Music
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Kayleigh Bagley

PhD Program, Historical Musicology | 20th and 21st Century Orchestral Music | Soviet Politics | Nationalism | Film Music
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Cody Case

Ethnomusicology | Blocos Afro in Salvador, Brazil | Samba-Afro and Samba-Reggae | Black Resistance, Afro-Diaspora, and Afrofuturism in Brazil | Ethnography | Audio- Visual Fieldwork Methods | Applied Ethnomusicology
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Brandon Dye

PhD program, Historical Musicology | Religion; Protest; Authenticity; Negro Spirituals; American Music
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Sara Fazeli

PhD program, Ethnomusicology: Sound, Politics, and Protest Music; Music and Migration; Music and Gender; Iranian Music; Music in the Middle East
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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John-Peter S. Ford

PhD program, Musicology | Music in 18th and 19th Century Vienna, George Chadwick, Early American Comic Opera, Music and Landscape
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Xi Lu

PhD Program, Ethnomusicology | Oral Culture; Linguistic-Musical Connections in Peking Drum Songs; Chinese Traditional Music; Saudade in Portuguese Fado
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Illiana Martinez

MM in Ethnomusicology | African Diaspora; Garifuna; Migration; Cultural Identity
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Naa Akle Afriyie Okantey

MM Program, Ethnomusicology| Nnwonkoro, sustainability, cultural change
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Luis Pro-Villamonte

PhD Program, Historical Musicology | Franz Liszt, philosophy, mathematical models, avant-garde
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Christy Sallee

PhD program, Historical Musicology: Mélanie Bonis; Women in music; Gender in British Music Culture; English Pianism; French Pianism
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Victoria Sigur

MM Program, Ethnomusicology | Ethnomusicology, Voice, Bossa Nova, Jazz, Carioca, Creole, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Gerard Spicer

PhD program, Musicology: Cold War cultural diplomacy, global perspectives on U.S.- mediated diplomacy, American orchestras, digital humanities methods
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Qian Sun

PhD program, Ethnomusicology | Popular Music; Rock; Heavy Metal; Reggae; Music and Diaspora; Music Scene; Folk Songs; Chinese Music and Cultural Identity.
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Holly Tumblin

PhD Program, Ethnomusicology | Latin American and Caribbean Music and Dance, Gender, Embodiment, Popular Music
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Andrew Vogel

PhD Program, Ethnomusicology | Jazz | Ska | Popular Music | Popular Culture and Identity
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Leo Walker

PhD Program, Historical Musicology | Benjamin Britten; 20th-cent. opera; Trauma studies; Voice studies; Politics
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Jens Watts

MM Ethnomusicology | Music of Brazil | Improvisation | Pedagogy
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Abigail Carissa Lindo

PhD Program, Ethnomusicology | Portuguese Music; Gender Studies and Queer Theory; Afro-diasporic Musicking; Cultural Geographies; Ecomusicology; Community Music-Making
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Jeana Melilli

PhD Program, Musicology | European Instrumental Music
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music
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Jason Mullen

PhD Program, Ethnomusicology | Economic Ethnomusicology; Theories of Reciprocity and Exchange; Timbre and Popular Music
  • Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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  • School of Music