Education
Publications
Awards
Presentations
Service
Teaching
2023
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
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Dissertation:
The Hi-Fi Man: Masculinity, Modularity and Home Audio in the U.S. Midcentury
Advisor: Mark Katz
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2018
Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
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Thesis:
Discrimination, Authenticity, and Masculinity in Online Music Countercultures
Advisor: Kevin Bartig
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2012
Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, MI)
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
2022
“‘The Silent Partner: Tonearms and Modular Masculinities in U.S. Midcentury Hi-Fi Culture,”
Journal for the Society of American Music, 2022
2018–23
Thomas S. Royster Fellowship
UNC-Chapel Hill, Graduate School
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The premier doctoral recruitment fellowship at UNC, awarded to prospective students through department nomination.
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2021-22
Arts Everywhere Graduate Fellowship in Music Technology
UNC-Chapel Hill, Arts Everywhere and Music Department
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Fellowship designed to give graduate students in musicology the opportunity to develop creative, scholarly, and pedagogical skills in the area of music technology while serving the campus and broader communities.
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2022
Exploratory Research Grant
Hagley Museum and Library
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Funded one week research trip to access the David Sarnoff Collection at Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware.
2019
James W. Pruett Summer Research Fellowship
UNC-Chapel Hill, The Library of Congress and Music Department
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Funded three months of research and internship work at the Library of Congress Music Division.
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2019
Kenan Graduate Student Activities Fund Award
UNC-Chapel Hill, Music Department
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Funding to present at the national meeting of the Popular Cultures Association in Washington, D.C.
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2018
Somers Excellence in Teaching Award
Michigan State University, Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts & Humanities
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Awarded by student nomination for outstanding and creative teaching of recitations for "Music and Society of the Modern World." Classes were made up of non-music major students.
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2017
Membership and Professional Development Travel Grant
American Musicological Society
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Funding to attend the national meeting of the American Musicological Society in Rochester, NY.
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2017
Hollander Fund Research Grant
Michigan State University, Music Department
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Funding to present at the Annual meeting of the Midwest Popular Cultures Association in St. Louis, MO.
2016–18
Arts and Humanities University Research Fellowship
Michigan State University, Graduate School
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Fellowship for two years of study in the Masters of Musicology program in the Michigan State University School of Music.
2023
"I Will Tell You Who You Are": Marketing and Masculinity in Midcentury Hi-Fi Magazines
Bi-annual international meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, June 26–30, Minneapolis, MN.
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2023
"I Want My Stuff Really Separate": Modular Masculinity and U.S. Midcentury Hi-Fi Culture
Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media, May 11–13, Harvard University Department of Music, Cambridge, MA.
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2022
Tangled Technologies: Audio Cables and Midcentury Scientific Masculinity
Annual national meeting of the American Musicological Society,
November 10–13, New Orleans, LA.
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2020
Modularity and Masculinity in High Fidelity Magazine
Annual national meeting of the American Musicological Society,
November 7–14, virtual.
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2020
"The Silent Partners": Tonearms and Sexuality in Midcentury Home Audio Advertising
UNC-KCL Joint Graduate Music Student Conference,
July 21–23, virtual.
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2019
Visualizing #WAFGate: Mapping Gendered Rhetoric in the Online Audiophile Community
South Central Graduate Music Conference,
September 20–21, Duke University, Durham, NC.
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2019
#WAFGate: The Wife Acceptance Factor and Exclusion in the Online Audiophile Community
Annual national meeting of the Popular Cultures Association,
April 16–20, Washington, D.C.
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2017
Excavating User-Generated Content in the Online Indie Music Community
Annual meeting of the Midwest Popular Cultures Association,
October 18–22, St. Louis, MO.
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2017
The Problem with ‘Pitchfork’: Intellectualism and Discrimination in Online Indie Criticism
Bowling Green State University Graduate Conference,
February 24–25, Bowling Green, OH.
2021-22
Co-chair
Graduate Music Student Forum
Music Department, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Duties included leading forum meetings, facilitating forum discussions, addressing graduate student concerns, running forum elections, and collaborating with faculty regarding graduate student issues.
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2019-20
Conference Co-organizer
South Central Graduate Music Student Consortium Conference
UNC-Chapel Hill
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Duties included collaborating with music student organizers at University of Virginia and Duke University to distribute the call for papers, selecting presentations and performances, facilitating remote and in-person presentations and concerts, and providing refreshments with department funding.
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2019
Student Representative
Faculty-Student Committee
Music Department, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Duties included liaising with faculty representatives to share and discuss issues regarding music graduate students.
Graduate Research Consultant, UNC-Chapel Hill​
Fall 2022
MUSC 254: Music History I, Antiquity to 1750
Professor: Anne MacNeil
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Developed and advised the culminating final project, including project design and one-on-one work with students to meet project learning objectives. This project included a community engagement element, wherein students recorded podcasts and shared them via QR codes with the general UNC student population.
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Summer 2022
MUSC 286: Music as Culture, Frank Ocean
Professor: Michael Figueroa
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Collaborated with Prof. Figueroa; worked closely with a small group of students to build listening and analytical skills through the music of hip-hop artist, Frank Ocean. Developed a media-based final project and consulted with students to encourage rigorous critical engagement with Ocean’s lyrical, musical, and visual corpus.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, UNC-Chapel Hill
Spring 2021
MUSC/WGST 188: Introduction to Women and Music
Professor: Anne MacNeil
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Fall 2020
MUSC 141: Survey of Western Music History
Professor: Evan Bonds
Three recitation sections of 15 students each
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Fall 2019
MUSC 147: Introduction to Music of the Americas
Professor: Juan Álamo
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University
Spring 2018
IAH 241A: Music and Society of the Modern World
Professor: Kevin Bartig
Four recitation sections of 25 students each
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Fall 2017
IAH 241A: Music of Africa
Professor: Sarah Long
Four recitation sections of 25 students each
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Spring 2017
MUS 212: History of Western Music Since 1750
Professor: Michael Largey
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Fall 2016
MUS 211: History of Western Music to 1750
Professor: Marcie Ray