Jacobs School of Music

Name (Degree)
[email @ indiana.edu]

Hometown

Prior Education:
Degrees Received

Other Information:
Areas of Interest

Mollie Ables (PhD)
[mables]

Kerrville, TX

BM Baylor University; MM University of Texas at Austin

Sacred music in late-Renaissance Venice and early 20th-century Jewish ethnography

MeeJung Ahn (MA)
[meejahn]

Kate Altizer (PhD) (kaltizer)

Tazewell, VA

BA (Piano Performance and Vocal Performance) Emory & Henry College

MM (Piano Performance and Music History) West Virginia University

Film Music and Music History Pedagogy

Dana Barron (PhD)
[dbbarron]

Guttenberg, IA

BA Gustavus Adolphus College

MA Indiana University

15th-century music and culture, manuscript studies, medieval and Renaissance notation

Daniel Bishop (PhD)
[djbishop]

Batavia, NY

BM (Music Education and Cello Performance), SUNY Potsdam

MA (Music History), Indiana University

Film sound and film music, modernist and avant-garde aesthetics

Katie Chapman (PhD)
[katechap]

Rock Hill, SC

BM Furman University

Medieval music, particularly the troubadours and other vernacular monophonic song traditions, polemics, patronage, development of intellectual property concepts, and medievalisms

Laura Dallman (PhD)
[ldallman]

Terre Haute, IN

BM (Piano), Ball State University, 2007

MA (Musicology), Indiana Univeristy, 2009

20th century, reception

Patrick Domico (PhD)
[pdomico]

Molly Doran (PhD)
[modoran]

Brighton, MI

BA (Music) Hillsdale College

MM (Music History) Bowling Green State University

The transformation of literary works into nineteenth-century opera; opera and sexuality; the treatment of female characters in opera of the late nineteenth century

Cynthia Dretel (PhD)
[cydretel]

Somers Point, NJ

BM (Sacred Music and Percussion Performance), Moravian College

Polish and Czech folk music, Jewish and Gentile theater and music written in World War II concentration camps and ghettos, and 20th century percussion solo and ensemble literature.

John Hamby (MA)
[hambyjo]

Elizabeth Elmi (PhD)
[egelmi]

Garden City, NY

AB (Italian and Music), Vassar College

MA (Italian Literature), Indiana University

The relationship between music and poetry in Renaissance and early Baroque vocal music in Italy.  As a secondary interest, issues of philology and paleography in book and manuscript studies from the Middle Ages through the 17th century.

John Hamby (MA)
[hambyjo]

Stephanie Hartono (MA)
[shartono]

Joanna Helms (MA)
[johelms]

Christopher Holmes (PhD)
[chholmes]

Columbus, TX

BM University of Texas at Arlington

MM Baylor University

Twentieth-century music, particularly in Britain after World War II. My dissertation title is "Tradition and Meaning in the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies,” and I currently teach at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana.

Amanda Jensen (PhD) [amarjens]

Missouri City, TX

BA (Plan II Honors, Music, Ancient Greek), University of Texas at Austin

Renaissance instrumental music and culture; iconography; historiography; poetry and music

Paul Killinger (PhD)
[pkilling]

Hyun Joo Kim (PhD)
[hjk]

Philip Kurasz (PhD)
[pkurasz]

Plano, IL

Nathan Landes (PhD) [nalandes]

Cranston, RI

BM (Bassoon Performance), Oberlin Conservatory

MM (Bassoon Performance, Musicology) New England Conservatory

Hip-Hop, Heavy metal; Verdi, Verismo; Historiography

Matthew Leone (PhD)
[mgleone]

Huntington,NY

BA (Musical Studies), SUNY Potsdam,

MA (Musicology) Indiana University

Jan Ladislav Dussek's life and music; Nineteenth-Century music; Film music; National/cultural/historical constructs and issues of musical authenticity and identity.

Luiz Fernando Lopes (PhD)
[lflopes]

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

BM (Piano Performance) Universidade do Rio de Janeiro

MM (Piano Performance) University of Michigan,

MA (Musicology), Indiana University

Brazilian music, Latin American music, nationalism, nineteenth-century opera, source studies, twentieth century music

Perfomance: piano, voice, and guitar

Dissertation title: "Settling the Score with the Malandro: Heitor Villa-Lobos's Phantom and Misdated Works"

Currrent teaching position: Acting Assistant Director and Adjunct Lecturer, Latin American Music Center at thee Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Dustin Ludeman (MA)
[dludeman]

Leesburg, VA

BM (Piano Performance) University of Maryland

Carolyn McClimon (PhD)
[ccmcclim]

Hixson, TN

BM (Piano Performance) Furman University - Greenville, SC;

MA (Piano Performance) University of North Carolina Greensboro

Early 19th-century (particularly piano music); genre studies; 20th-century middlebrow music

Alison Mero (PhD)
[atrego]

Orion, IL

BM Illinois State University

MA Indiana University

British Music, especially English opera of the 19th century; opera in general.

D. R. Nelson (PhD)
[darnelso]

Minneapolis, MN

BM Roosevelt University

English music (especially 17th century); music and dance; music publishing

Elizabeth Newton (MA) [elmnewto]

Boise, ID

BA (Music and International Political Economy), University of Puget Sound

Modernism: American jazz and popular music; gender and music; semiotics

Cheuk Ng (MA) [cmng]

San Antonio, TX

BA (Music) / BA (Plan II Honors), University of Texas at Austin

Representations of Classical Mythology in music literature, Italian music of the Renaissance and Baroque era, video game music

Kerry O’Brien (PhD)
[obrien5]

Johnsburg, IL

BM Northern Illinois University

MA Indiana University

Post-WWII avant-garde; performance studies; media and technology studies. Currently writing a dissertation on Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), 1966-1971.

Marysol Quevedo (PhD)
[mquevedo]

Bayamon, Puerto Rico

BM (Flute Performance) University of Central Florida

20th- and 21st- centuries Latin American Art Music, Art Music in Socialist Cuba, Latin American popular music and culture, 17th-century Spanish music for the stage, performance of gender and ethnicity in works for the stage throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

Aaron Riedford (MA)
[ajriedfo]

Evansville, IN

BA University of Evansville

New music and film music.

Daniel Rogers (PhD)
[rogersdt]

David Rugger (PhD)
[dgrugger]

Indianapolis, IN

BA (Music) Butler University, with High Honors                MM (Music History) Butler University

Music and landscape; spatial metaphors in music; nationalism(s); English music of the 20^th century; historiography; critical and cultural theory; singing

Amanda Sewell (PhD)
[ajsewell]

Topeka, IN

BA Butler University

MM Bowling Green State University

Musical borrowing; American music; hip-hop; late 18^th-century opera

Ann Shaffer (PhD)
[ashaffer]

Karen Stafford (PhD/MLS)
[kanton]

Saint Louis, MO

BM (Clarinet Performance), BA (Philosophy), BA (English), University of Missouri--Kansas City

Karen Stafford (PhD/MLS)
[kanton]

Saint Louis, MO

BM (Clarinet Performance), BA (Philosophy), BA (English) University of Missouri-Kansas City

Representations of the supernatural and mystical in 19th-century music; American music; music printing and publishing; rare books and manuscripts

Derek Stauff (PhD)
[dstauff]

Orwigsburg, PA

BM Grove City College

MM Indiana University

MA Indiana University

17^th- and 18^th-century Germany

Laura Stokes (PhD)
[lkstokes]

BA Carleton College

MSI University of Michigan

MA Indiana University

Kristen Strandberg (PhD)
[kstrandb]

Fargo, ND

BM University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Late 19^th- and early 20^th-century modernism

Dissertation: 19^th-century virtuosity (violinists)

Nik Taylor (PhD)
[net]

De Pere, WI

BM Eastman School of Music

18^th-century music; the German cantata; opera

Laura Thompson (MA/MLS)
[thompslb]

Lisa Vest (PhD)
[lvest]

BA John Brown University

Music and politics in 19^th- and 20^th-century Eastern Europe; post WWII avant-garde music; representations of gender in opera; cultural theory and issues of reception

Virginia Whealton (PhD)
[vewhealt]

Norfolk, VA

BM Houghton College

MA Indiana University

18th- and 19th-century musical travelogues; travel literature in general; 18th-and 19th- century French opera; women and music; historicism; Baroque aesthetics

Christine Wisch (PhD)
[cewisch]

Richmond, TX

BM (Music Education)

BA (Spanish) University of Houston

MA (Musicology) Indiana University

19th- and 20th-century Spanish music; exoticism in Western art music, and nationalism.

Alexis Witt (PhD)
[witt2]

Boerne, TX

BM (Clarinet Performance and Music History) Baldwin-Wallace University Conservatory

MM (Musicology) Rice University

Soviet film; Russian music and literature from the 19^th and 20^th centuries

Lisa Wollenberg (MA/MLS) [wollenb]

Crawfordsville, IN

BA (Musicology) The College of Wooster

Chris Woodall (MA)
[cwoodall]

Ryan Young (PhD)
[ryeyoung]

Indianapolis, IN

BA University of Indianapolis

MA Indiana University

Music and reform in 16th and 17th century England