PhDs Completed in Musicology in the Last 10 Years
2025
Jonathan L. Hollis
“Echoes in Exile: An Armenian Instrumentalist from Azerbaijan”
Kelli McQueen
“Star-Struck, Lovesick, Poet-Musicians: Troubadours and the Cultural Significance of Music in Medieval Society”
2023
Wes T. Sharp
“Sounding Super: Examining Aspects of Music and Sound Design in American Superhero Media”
Emmanuel Joshua Stokes
“‘You are Important to Me, I need You to Survive’: Constructing Community through College Gospel Choirs”
2022
Lucas Aaron Henry
“‘Music Moves Europe’: Music Festivals, Musicians, and Transnational Policy Networks in the European Union”
Jamil Jorge
“Youth and Intersectional Belonging in Drum & Bugle Corps Subculture”
Jonathon M. Smith
“Imagined Space in Sacred Harp Singing”
2021
Nolan Andrew Vallier
“Sacred Sounds and Natural Grounds: Designing Acoustic Communities within Prairie Style and Organic Architectural Spaces”
2020
Molly Rose Cryderman-Weber
“The Sound of the Hidden Curriculum: Music and Sound Design in Baby-Boomer Era Social Guidance Films in the United States”
Thornton Miller
“Reaching Through the Iron Curtain: Practicalities in the Anglo-Soviet Cultural Exchange of Music and Musicians, 1955-1975”
2019
Matthew Knight
“Song Hunters in Svaneti: Musical Tourism and other Intercultural Encounters in Highland Georgia”
Peter Judkins Wellington
“Marimba Music, Boundaries of Diaspora, and Epistemologies of the Colombian Border in Esmeraldas, Ecuador”
2018
Liliana Carizzo
“Exiled Nostalgia and Musical Remembrance: Songs of Grief, Joy, and Tragedy among Iraqi Jews”
Katie Beisel Hollenbach
“ ‘I hear music when I look at you’: Teenage Agency, Mass Media, and Frank Sinatra in World War II America”
Ian Middleton
“Trust in Music: Musical Projects against Violence in Northern Colombia”
Michael Siletti
“Sounding the Last Mile: Music and Capital Punishment in the United States since 1976”
2017
Jessica Hajek
“The Capital of Carnival: Alibabá Carnival Music and Dance in Santo Domingo as Social Enterprise and Performance Complex”
Paul Hartley
“Unfamiliar Sounds in Familiar Settings: On the Cosmopolitan Labour of Film Composers in Istanbul”
Holly Holmes
“Milton Nascimento and the Clube da Esquina: Popular Music, Politics, and Fraternity during Brazil’s Military Dictatorship (1964-85)”
Priscilla Tse
“Queering the Body: Cross-dressing Performance and Identity Politics in Cantonese Opera of Post-1950s Hong Kong”
Emily Wuchner
“The Tonkünstler-Societät and the Oratorio in Vienna, 1771–1798”
2016
Richard Deja
“From Place to Placelessness: Malawian Musicians, Commercial Music, and Social Worlds in Southern Africa”
Ioannis Tsekouras
“Nostalgia, Emotionality, and Ethno-Regionalism in Pontic Parakathi Singing”
Catherine Hennessy Wolter
“Sound Conversations: Print Media, Player Pianos, and Early Radio in the United States”