Research Interests: Race and borders in jazz, literature in music, music of the World´s Fairs in the 19th century, sound studies.
Graduate Students
Kamilla Arku
Research Interests: history of phonetics, biopolitics, critical race and ethnicity studies, political economy, science and technology studies, sound, American studies.
Tomas Bazika
Research Interests: Composition, Popular Music, Latin American Music and Mythology
Research Interests: My work involves designing, building and researching imprecise technological assemblages that catalyze new listening modes and embodied forms of live composition in electroacoustic sounds.
Research Interests: American Studies, sound studies, media studies, critical prison and policing studies, critical race theory, performance studies, science and technology studies, media archeology, activist anthropology, and movement studies. She maintains a long-term study in popular music studies, music journalism, ethnomusicology, gender & sexuality studies, and Czech & Slovak popular music.
Claudia Carrera
David Catchpole
Research Interests: sound, voice, and media studies; postcolonial, transpacific, and sinophone studies; knowledge, interdisciplinarity, critical university studies; failure, humor, aversion, ambivalence; gastromusicology
Research Interests: 18th and 19th centuries performance practice; Conducting; Stephen Sondheim and the American Musical; Queer studies; Music in the Holocaust; Theory and analysis.
Samantha Cooper
Research Interests: Jewish Classical Music, Music of the Holocaust, Opera Studies, Orientalism/Exoticism, Women in Music, Historiography, Music Theory
Youssef El-Bashlawy
Research Interests: Hip Hop, Masculinities, Genre, Class, Authenticity
Research Interests: Georgian vocal music, ideologies of polyphony and European exceptionalism, the Polish physical theatre tradition, media archaeology
Annie Garlid
Research Interests: sound & climate change, sound & haunting, care structures, electronic music, medieval music
Chui Wa Ho (何翠樺)
cwh320@nyu.edu
Research Interests: cultural flow and transitional circulation of music genre; popular music in Japan; music during U.S. occupation of Japan and Okinawa; linguistic discourses about music; cultural foreign policy; music in every day life; fandom, construction of race in East Asia; Buddhist pilgrimage and secular road trip in Japan
Cheng Jin Koh
Charlie Kozey
Critical whiteness studies; Music and social movements; Transnational media flows; Sound as relation; Russian-language popular music; Queer theory
Research Interests: Contemporary composition, 20th- and 21st-century music, aesthetics and analysis
Zeke Levine
Kenneth Lim
Cecilia Lopez
Alex McIe
Jon (Jack) Meadow
Kelso Molloy
c.kelso.molloy@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Late 1960s-1970s Classic Rock (esp. Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, and Frank Zappa); the Performance of Age(ing); Studio/Recording Technology; Rock Theatre/Opera/Film; Metamodernist Analysis
GraceElaine Osborne
goozborne@gmail.com
Research Interests: Sound and Vibration Healing, Sound Art, Women in Music, Czech Music, Silence, Spirituality, Sonic Violence, Listening
Alysse Padilla
Robin Preiss
Research Interests: Listening to sound (1) in place (2) past the human (3) past the post-human - acoustic ecology - howling - Moby Dick - neocolonialism - decolonization - direct action - geology - icebergs
Marcus Pyle
Research Interests: Early 20th-century opera; critical theory and continental philosophy; gender and sexuality; orchestration and ontology; intersections of music, the visual arts, and literature; embodiment
Danielle Roman
Research interests: Music in Irish nation-building projects, Celticism, empire, diaspora, the history of race, women in music, the Jews of Ireland
Research Interests: New directions in counterpoint; music of Japan and Korea; inter-arts connections
Research Interests: Music and language, microtonal systems, and the creative process.
Victoria Smith
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Circulation, Coding, Ethnography, Experimental Music, Failure, Format, Technology
Konstantine Vlasis
Research interests: Anthropocene, acoustic ecology, environmental racism, posthumanism, streams and streaming
Research Interests: Composition; Music Theory (form and analysis); Narrative studies of absolute music; Opera.
Research Interests: Ancient Chinese Court music; children's reaction to abstract arts and music; theatrical music; music and gender.
Heather Woodson-Gammon
Research Interests: Zoömusicology and interspecific affect, vocality, and listening; Czech bluegrass; music and disability; music, death, and mourning; acoustic ecology.
Viola Yip
Research Interests: Transcendence through epic partying; implementing and documenting social and acoustic spaces; music, real estate, and gentrification in New York and other urban centers