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Musicology

Peter Schmelz Department Chair
Associate Professor, Musicology
Professor Schmelz is the recipient of fellowships from the NEH and the Paul Sacher Foundation. His research interests include twentieth-century music, Russian and Soviet music, music in the cold war, and popular music.
Patrick Burke Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology
Prof. Burke's research centers on jazz and popular music in the United States, with a focus on the connections between music's performance and reception and the formation of racial ideology.
Todd Decker Head of Musicology
Assistant Professor, Musicology
Film and Media Studies, Affiliated Faculty
American Culture Studies, Joint Appointment
Performing Arts Department, Faculty Affiliate
Professor Decker's first book, Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz (University of California Press, 2011) won the 2012 Best First Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Paul DeMarinis Lecturer, Jazz History
Denise Gill-Gürtan Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Dr. Gill-Gürtan specializes in musical practices of Turkey and the Middle East, with research centered on music and affect, gender/sexuality, Islam, and medical ethnomusicology.
Jeffrey Kurtzman Professor, Musicology
Jeffrey Kurtzman earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. His research is centered on Italian music of the 16th and 17th centuries, aesthetics, and criticism.
Craig Monson Paul Tietjens Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences
Professor, Musicology
Dr. Monson earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. He has received ACLS, NEH, and Griswold grants, has a fellowship with the National Humanities Center, and was awarded the Westrup Prize (England).
Dolores Pesce Avis Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences
Professor, Musicology
Executive Director, Friends of Music
Professor Pesce is the recipient of the Fulbright, IREX, and NEH fellowships. Her research interests concentrate on the middle ages and the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries.
Alexander Stefaniak Assistant Professor, Musicology
Prof. Stefaniak's research centers on instrumental virtuosity, Romantic aesthetics, and music in nineteenth-century Germany, specifically Robert Schumann and his contemporaries.
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