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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |