The following is a partial list of graduate students in the Department of Music, including their specific programs and academic interests.
Please note: all email addresses (in parentheses following names) are @uchicago.edu.

Rachel Adelstein (adelstein)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Modern Jewish liturgical song, Holocaust music, shape-note singing, music as a function of time and memory, women's agency in music, popular adaptation and re-contextualization of units of music.

Iddo Aharony (aharony)
Composition. Interests: contemporary and electroacoustic music, multimedia art, music for theater, dance and film, interactions between music and literary text, and most things that make sounds.

Shawn Allison (brogan)
Composition. Interests: 20th-century music in general, particularly Messiaen and Crumb. Also a saxophonist. http://www.composersforum.org/member_profile.cfm?oid=2101

Adrienne Alton-Gust (acag)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Electronic tango, genre in popular music, identity construction, fieldwork in virtual communities, music of fitness cultures.

Patricia Arzaga [Firca] (pfirca)
Musicology. Interests: 17th-century music, early modern noble identity, social virtues, comparison between the Austrian Habsburgs and the French Bourbons, and cultural exchange between Italian and Austrian cities (Lucca, Venice, Innsbruck, Vienna). Dissertation title: La virtù fatta canora: Staging Early Modern Values at the Court of Leopold I (1658-1705)

Jake Bancks (jbancks)
Composition. Interests (lately): Messiaen, plainchant, R. Strauss, Ravel, Turnage, Crumb, Nelson Algren/Chicago history, James Joyce. Liturgical and ritual music.

David Bashwiner (bash)
Music Theory. Interests: Musical Mind, Musical Neuroscience, Musical Affect, and Film Music Composition. Dissertation on “the syntax-semantics interface in music”--that is, the relationship between deep and surface structure in music, and the influence of this relationship upon, among other things, the generation of affect and musical meaning.

Alex J. Berezowsky (aberezow)
Composition. Interests: Electroacoustic Music, Opera, Guitar, Charles Ives.

Melissa Bilal (melissab)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Lullabies, histories and theories of feminism, politics of history, transmission of trauma, anthropology of affect and senses, history of Armenian women's movement, late 19th and early 20th century European art music in Istanbul, discourses and practices of modernization in Armenian music, music and cultural politics in Turkey, Armenian folk music repertory, musics of Hamshen/Hemshin.

Ieda Bispo (ibispo)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Music and Pentecostalism, production and consumption of contemporary Christian music (gospel) in Brazil; musical traditions in Sao Paulo; Brazilian guitar; Brazilian popular music.

Eric Brinkmann (ejb)
Composition. Interests: Early 20th-century modernism, Russian music, American experimental music, avant-garde jazz.

Chelsea Burns (chelsea1)
Theory. Interests: cognition, music theory pedagogy, Latin American art music, and politics of music theory.

Mary Channen Caldwell (marycaldwell)
Musicology/Ethnomusicology. Interests: Medieval music; the Latin refrain song; repetition in medieval music and music theory; clerical dance, gesture, and ritual; sacred song in ritual context; historical ethnography; music and theology; symbolism in music. Dance history and research; anthropology of dance; dance notation; Native American dance; dance historiography (esp. research of Gertrude P. Kurath).

Sean Eugene Carmichael (scarmichael)
MAPH; Music History and Theory focus. Interests: Schenkerian Analysis; Theories of Musical Time; Pentatonicism; Jazz; Improvisation; German Lieder; German Romanticism; Theory as Practice.

Andrew Cashner (cashner)
Music History. Interests: Music and spirituality (esp. in the Christian tradition); liturgical history; domestic life; boundaries between public and private, sacred and secular, tradition and innovation; musical symbolism and hermeneutics; oral traditions and improvisation. Early modern Germany and Spain, 18th/19th-cent. Vienna, 20th/21st-cent. America.

Yao Chen (cheny)
Composition. composeryaochen.com.

Majel Connery (mconnery)
Ethnomusicology. Avant-garde opera and religion. Founder of Opera Cabal, a Chicago- and New York-based collective of artists on the contemporary music scene. Runs monthly performance salons in Hyde Park.

Genevieve Dempsey (gdempsey)
Ethnomusicology.  Interests: researching rock nacional and rock chabón in Buenos Aires and studying the interconnectivity of music with political economy, gender, subaltern identities, and transnationalism

Dawn De Rycke (derycke)
Musicology. Interests: 15th/16th century sacred music, Spain. Ceremony and civic identity, Seville. Motets, hymns; local devotion. Francisco Guerrero. Local identity and cultural commerce.

Jonathan De Souza (jdesouza)
Music Theory and History. Interests: Perception and conceptualization of musical texture; film musicals and cultural memory; indeterminate music, analysis, and discourse (Cage, Boulez, Feldman).

Will Faber (wfaber)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Jazz, blues, improvisation, experimentalism, noise, Afro-Beat. Sun Ra, Fela Kuti, Charlie Parker, Charlie Patton, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, George Lewis, Lightning Bolt. Intercultural music making, locality, race, appropriation, America, historical imagination, ethnography, poetics.

Cesar Favila (cdfavila)
Music History and Theory. Interests: 19th-century music and culture; the pipe organ's history, performance practice and repertoire; sacred music.

Michael A. Figueroa (mfigueroa)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Music of the Middle East, Jewish music, African-American music, historiography, cultural geography, postcolonial studies, history of ethno/musicology.

Luis-Manuel Garcia (lgarcia)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Electronic Dance Music (e.g., house, techno, d'n'b, glitch) in urban settings, multi-site ethnography, body & experience, genre politics, public sphere theory, dance, concepts of value, queerness & camp; sexuality, performance, intimacy & “authenticity.”

David M. Gordon (dmg)
Composition. Interests: Music theory and aural skills pedagogy, late twentieth-century music, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Part, microtonality, tuning theory, experimental and non-Western musical instruments.

Daniel Gough (danielgough)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: popular music in São Paulo, Brazil; music and urban space; cultural institutions and cultural policy; avant-garde movements; issues of racial, ethnic, and local identity in the Lusophone World.

Andy Greenwood (andyg)
Musicology. Interests: Eighteenth-century studies. Opera (Handel seria variants, castrati, Singspiele); genre; treatises on music and human nature and the origins of language; folk ideologies and nationalism; philosophy of music; hermeneutics; choral music; performance.

Dana Hall (danahall)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Black music and popular culture, Sub-Saharan Africa and musics of the African Diaspora, improvisation, and cultural criticism. Theoretical interests include issues of sentiment, ethnicity and identity, post-colonialism, protest, and struggle. Currently Assistant Professor at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

Andrea Harris (aharris11)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Irish traditional music, Celtic rock; issues of identity, nationalism, colonialism, and diaspora.

Erika Honisch (supria)
Musicology. Interests: Artists, musicians, philosophers, scientists at 17th-century Habsburg courts (Prague, Vienna); patronage as artistic/political/religious act (Rudolf II, Ferdinand II).

Sarah Iker (siker)
Music Theory. Interests: perception and cognition (particularly theories of emotion and expectation), nature and artifice, math and music theory, analysis, piano performance, dance.

Donald James (jamesdo)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Music and cultural politics, jazz and popular music in the Francophone world, mediation and ontologies of performance, geography, scenes and subcultures.

Andrew Jasinski (jasinski)
Composition. Interests: Gyorgy Ligeti, Stephan von Huene, sound sculpture, toy instruments, film music.

Jake Johnson (jvj)
Musicology. Interests: American musical culture from the 19th to the 21st century; institutions of patronage; visual culture and literary criticism; American studies; New Age music; Woody Guthrie; postmodern musical biography. 

Alisha Lola Jones (aljones1)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Researching African American music traditions with a focus in sacred music, the intersection of oral and written traditions in sacred music, and sacred music as a response to communal trauma.

Shawn Marie Keener (keeners)
Musicology. Interests: Late medieval/early renaissance musical culture in northern Italy.

Füsun Köksal (koksalf)
Composition. http://www.societyofcomposers.org/user/fusunkoksal.html

Stephen Kowalsky (sjkowals)
Composition. Interests: Minor field studies in Musicology (diegesis and the composer/director collaboration in film music; defining the orchestral narrative).

Mariusz Kozak (mkozak)
Music Theory. Interests: Cognition and perception, theories of timbre and time, neuropsychology of music, analysis and criticism.

Peter Kupfer (pakupfer)
Musicology. Interests: 19th-century Germany (Lieder, Wagner), 20th-century Russian/Soviet Music (esp. Shostakovich), East Germany, Music and Politics, Film Music.

Michael LaCroix (mlacroix)
Composition. Interests: Contemporary concert music, multimedia, jazz. http://www.michaellacroix.com

Eun-young Lee (young)
Composition. Interests: Acoustic & Electro-acoustic music; multimedia; music pedagogy; film music.

Feng-Shu Lee (galatea)
Musicology. Interests: Sketch study, source study, and dramaturgy in Wagner's music dramas (especially the Ring). Schubert songs; Verdi operas; applied musicology in the 19th-century violin Repertoire, especially violin concerto and sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms; 18th-century operas, especially operas by Handel and Mozart.

Trent Leipert (trent)
Music History and Theory. Late Modernism/avant-garde/popular music; critical theory; aesthetics and philosophy; politics; voice, corporality and technology (Lachenmann, Rihm, Artaud, Serge Gainsbourg)

Yuan-Chen Li (ycli)
Composition. Interests: Music of European Avant-Garde, Japanese Noh Theater, Nan-quan chamber music, improvisation and experimental music. Research interests: tonal analysis, the act of reading, Mahler's orchestral lieder. Performance: String and keyboard player.

Ching Ching Cecilia Lo (cclo)
Music History and Theory. Interests: 16th and 17th century music, temporality and music.

Andrew Mall (mall)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Popular music, Christian rock, punk and
post-punk, media theory, music and the everyday, political economy of
music, rock historiography, rock criticism, commodity aesthetics,
nationalism, community and identity, undergrounds vis-a-vis
mainstreams, popular music studies pedagogy.

Monica Mays (maysm)
Ethnomusicology. My research interests include the production and reception of jazz and other popular musics in post WWII America. I am co-coordinator of EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop (2009-2010). In my free time, I enjoy playing Frisbee with my dog Trane.

Kevin McKenna (kmckenna)
Music Theory and History. Interests: Perception and cognition; aesthetics and philosophy of music; history of theory; origins and development of opera.

Andrew McManus (mcmanus)
Composition. Interests: Nancarrow, Carter, Ives, Ligeti, experimentalism, electroacoustic music, serialism, viola performance, Ayn Rand.  www.andrewmcmanusmusic.com

April Mok (taburasa)
Composition. Interests: Piano performance, computer music, visual arts.

Meredith Moretz (mmoretz)
Music History and Theory. Interests: 19th and 20th-century music (especially Schubert, Schumann, and Krenek); opera, film music, analysis, piano performance.

Valerie Nicholson (vnichols)
Music Theory, jazz pianist. Faculty member, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights.

Michael O'Toole (mfo)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Popular song, nostalgia, migration and “multiculturalism” in Germany. Turkish and Arab maqam traditions.

Marcelle Pierson (mcpierson)
Music Theory. Interests: Cognition. Contemporary music, specifically issues relating to texture and timbre.

Richard Plotkin (rplotkin)
Music Theory. Interests: Transformational theory, mathematics, filtered point-symmetry, rhythm and meter studies; singing, piano playing, and magic.

Rumya Putcha (rsputcha)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Dance, identity politics, regionalism, and nationalism in South Asia.

Melissa Reilly (columbo)
Musicology. Interests: Renaissance, aesthetics, performance studies, transitions.

Anna-Lise Pasch Santella (pas4)
Ethnomusicology and Musicology. Interests: Music in the United States, women's orchestras, film music, gender studies, music and politics, cultural policy, Irish traditional music in the U.S., Les Six, choral music.

Dylan Schneider (dschneider)
Composition.

August Sheehy (aasheehy)
Theory. Interests: cognition, music theory pedagogy, Latin American art music, and politics of music theory.

Peter Shultz (pashultz)
Music Theory. Interests: Video game music, post-tonal diatonicism, cognitive representations of music, mathematics in music theory.

Shayna Silverstein (smeis)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Popular culture in Syria and Lebanon (dabke and tarab performance practices), nationalism and sectarianism, narrative and affect, history and memory, trauma and conflict, Middle East studies.

Pete CW Smucker (smucker)
Music Theory. Interests: Music of the 20th and 21st centuries, post-tonal music in the United States; transformational theory; music of Elliott Carter; music theory pedagogy.

Peter Spragins (spragins)
Music History and Theory. Interests: Music and culture in eighteenth-century England. J.C. Bach, keyboard music, and the novel of sensibility. Analysis and hermeneutics. Economic contexts.

Martha Sprigge (masprigge)
Music History and Theory. Music and post-war reconstruction in the German Democratic Republic (1945-1989); the expression and aesthetic implications of mourning, commemoration and loss in twentieth-century music.

Erin Stapleton-Corcoran (elstaple)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Ireland, Europe, American folk and vernacular music, transnationalism, music and diaspora, music and poetry, festivalization, applied ethnomusicology.

Erin Sullivan (esull)
Music History and Theory. Interests: Post-WWII modernist aesthetics, serialism, Milton Babbitt; 20th-century interpretations of medieval/renaissance compositional practices; disciplinary history.

Jim Sykes (jimsykes)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Interrelations of sound, modernity, personhood, sacred and public space, and histories of violence and identity in Sri Lanka. India and Indonesia, aesthetics, linguistics, postcolonial studies, critical social theory, drumming, music theories (of rhythm), and the ethics of writing music history.

Takuma Tanikawa (takuma)
Composition. Interests: Theory, Elliott Carter’s compositional process, computer music, guitar. http://home.uchicago.edu/~takuma

Miriam Tripaldi (miriamtripaldi)
Music History and Theory. Music History and Theory. Interests: Italian opera of the 18th and 19th centuries; compositional process and musical analysis; Linguistics and cognition; the reception of Italian music in Russia; Russian music and culture; the relationship between composers and publishers (in particular, Verdi and Giulio Ricordi).

Michelle Urberg (urberg)
Music History. Interests: Medieval music theory, medieval women in music, paleography; film music.

Claudio Vellutini (vellutini)
Music History & Theory. Main interests: Italian opera of the 18th and 19th centuries; musical life in 19th-century Vienna and the relationship between musical activity and political power during the Restoration; performance practice of instrumental and vocal music of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Andrew Westerhaus (westeraj)
Music Theory and History. Interests: Russian music, History of theory, 19th- and 20th-Century music, Schenker, Aesthetics and Philosophy of music.

Suzanne Wint (swint)
Ethnomusicology. Interests: Ethnomusicologies of Western art-style music. Musicologies outside the U.S. (especially Central/Eastern Europe and Africa). Sub-Saharan Africa, post-colonialisms. Dissertation on Western art-style music in Uganda.

Lillian Wohl (lwohl)
Musical migrations and globalization theory.  Identity, Diaspora, postcolonial studies.  Jewish/Latin American musics.

Mark Yeary (yeary)
Music History and Theory. Interests: Perception and cognition of polyphony, histories of counterpoint and voice leading, psychology of music pedagogy, early Western vocal performance practice, and the cultural and musical exegesis of progressive rock. http://home.uchicago.edu/~yeary

Melanie Zeck (mzeck)
Music History and Theory. Music History and Theory. Interests: Late-Classical, early-Romantic compositional practices; historiography; psychoanalysis and musical communication; music of the African Diaspora in Europe.