Graduates of the PhD program in Music at UChicago have been appointed to fellowships and professorships in composition, ethnomusicology, and music history and theory at colleges and universities across the country and around the world. Click the links below to see where graduates are now.
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| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
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| Anna Beatrice Gatdula | "Spectacles of a Nuclear Empire: Opera and Film in the American Atomic Age, 1945-2018"
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Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Maria Kaoutzani | "For a While"
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Assistant Professor of Music (Composition), University of Oklahoma School of Music |
| Joshua Klopfenstein | "The Practice of Music Theory in England Before the Civil War"
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Co-Founder, Lindenwood Marketing |
| Erol Gregory Mehmet Köymen | "Listening for Secular Bodies: Western Art Music, Occidentalism and Belonging in Neo-Liberal Istanbul"
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Assistant Professor of Musicology, Florida State University College of Music |
| Eva Pensis | "Mighty Real: Trans Femme Embodiment, Queer Nightlife, and the Cultural Politics of Transmisogyny"
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Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies, University of Pennsylvania |
| Yuting Tan | "Amnesia"
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Instructor, Composition (four-year contract), Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Jon Edward Bullock | "Radio Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdish Music, Colonial Power and the Transformation of Tradition "
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Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Notre Dame |
| Rodrigo Bussad | ""TESSERACT" ACT I. For Amplified Soprano Saxophone Quartet and Octophonic Speaker Array"
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Composer, |
| Barbara Dietlinger | "Music and Commemoration in Early Modern Europe: Visual and Sonic Intersections of Remembrance"
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Assistant Professor of Music History, University of North Texas College of Music |
| Ailsa Lipscombe | "Precarious Bodies: Viral Listening to Sound, Silence and Trauma"
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Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music |
| Theodore Stuart Moore | "tap"
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Faculty, Music Engineering and Technology, Peabody Institute - Johns Hopkins University |
| Andrew Malilay White | "The Improvised Text: Bodily Regimes of Piano Performance in the Nineteenth Century"
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Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Alican Çamci | "Saha Araştirmasi (Fieldwork) for Large Ensemble and Electronics"
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J. Donald Feagin Professorship of Music and Film Studies, The University of Tulsa |
| Rebecca Flore | "Organizing the Sound of the Voice: Western Music’s Relationship with Recorded Speech, 1965–2020"
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Special Collections Metadata Librarian, University of Chicago |
| David "Clay" Mettens | "stain, bloom, moon, rain for 13 instruments"
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Faculty, Composition, Roosevelt University |
| Ted Moore | "tap for percussion trio, tape, and DMX lights"
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Huddersfield, UK |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Julianne Grasso | "Video Game Music, Meaning, and the Possibilities of Play"
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, University of Texas, Austin |
| Jack Hughes | "Needlepoint: For Large Orchestra"
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One-year teaching position, Cleveland Institute of Music |
| John Y. Lawrence | "Listening in Color: Sonority, Style, and Meaning in Europe 1760–1830"
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Humanities Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Joseph Maurer | "Learning and Teaching Musical Heritage in Immigrant Chicago"
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Humanities Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Tommaso Sabbatini | "Music, the Market, and the Marvelous: Parisian Féerie and the Emergence of Mass Culture, 1864–1900"
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British Academy Newton International Fellow, University of Bristol |
| Laura Shearing Turner | "Sounds of the Modern Backwoods: American Old-Time Musics, Heritage, Place"
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Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress |
| Bradley Spiers | "Music and the Spectacle of Artificial Life"
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Humanities Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| George Adams | "Listening to Conceptual Music: Technology, Culture, Analysis"
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Humanities Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Nadia Chana | "To Listen on Indigenous Land: Method, Context, Crisis"
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Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison |
| Zhuqing "Lester" Hu | "From 'Ut Re Mi' to Fourteen-Tone Temperament: The Global Acoustemologies of an Early Modern Chinese Tuning Reform"
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Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley |
| Bertie Kibreah | "Banter and Bricolage at the Burial Chamber: Dialectical Devotionalism in Bangladesh"
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Indiana University |
| Ameera Nimjee | "Moving Bodies: The Politics of Mobility in Indian Contemporary Dance"
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Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound |
| Jessica Gabriel Peritz | "The Lyric Mode of Voice: Song and Subjectivity in Italy, 1769-1815"
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Assistant Professor, Yale University |
| Melanie Zeck | "Well-Regulated Amusements and the Longitudinal Viability of Robert Owen's 'Plan for the Amelioration of the Condition of Mankind': New Harmony, Indiana, 1825-1874"
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Research Assistant, American Folklife Center, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| William D. Buckingham | "Recollecting Isleno Decimas: Louisiana's Lost Tradition of Spanish Ballad"
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University |
| Ted Gordon | "Bay Area Experimentalism: Music and Technology in the Long 1960s"
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Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Music, Columbia University |
| Pierce Gradone | "That Dark Electric: Concerto for Trombone and Chamber Ensemble"
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Assistant Professor of Music, Knox College |
| Anabel Maler | "Hearing Form in Post-Tonal Music"
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Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
| Timothy Page | "'Oru' for Chamber Orchestra and Objects"
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Lecturer in Music and Digital Arts, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Igor Santos | "Suggested Affinities: For Solo Piano, Large Ensemble and Electronics"
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Rome Prize & Guggenheim Fellowship, |
| Lindsay J. Wright | "Discourses of Musical Talent in American Culture"
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ACLS Fellowship and Assistant Professor, Yale University |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Dan Wang | "Scenes of Feeling: Music and the Imagination of the Liberal Subject"
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Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh |
| Abigail Fine | "Objects of Veneration: Music and Materiality in the Composer-Cults of Germany and Austria, 1870-1930"
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Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Oregon |
| Sarah Iker | "An Experience-Oriented Approach to Analyzing Stravinsky's Neoclassicism"
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Lecturer of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| August Sheehy | "Music Analysis as a Practice of the Self in Nineteenth-Century Germany"
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Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University |
| Braxton Shelley | "Sermons in Song: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination"
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Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor in the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, Harvard University |
| Mari Jo Velasco | "Popular Song, Revolution, and Devotional Culture in the French Pyreneese, 1780-1850"
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Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Iddo Aharony | "Kolot"
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Music Technology, Colorado College, in Colorado Springs |
| Chelsea Burns | "Listening for Modern Latin America: Identity and Representation in Concert Music, 1920-1940"
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Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| Genevieve Dempsey | "The Sacred Sound of Congado: Performing Songs of Devotion, Race, and Gender in Afro-Brazilian Religious Communities"
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Lecturer in World Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Lauren Eldridge | "Playing Haitian: Musical Negotiations of Nation, Genre, and Self"
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Professor, Washington University St. Louis |
| Cesar Favila | "Music and Devotion in Novohispanic Convents, 1600-1800"
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Assistant Professor in Musicology, University of California Los Angeles |
| Tomas Ignacio Gueglio Saccone | "'On Love' Triptych based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (For Two Actors, Soprano, and Ensemble)"
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Lecturer in Music Theory, Northwestern University |
| Rehanna Kheshgi | "Sounding Rural Modernities: Gender, Performance, and the Body in Assam, India"
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Assistant Professor of Music, St. Olaf College |
| Katherine Pukinskis | "And It Was Quiet"
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Preceptor in Music Composition, Harvard University |
| Ana Sanchez Rojo | "Music, Opinion, and Press in Late-Eighteenth Century Madrid"
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Assistant Professor of Music, Tulane University |
| Michelle Urberg | "Music in the Devotional Lives of the Birgittine Brothers and Sisters at Vadstena Abbey (c. 1373 – 1545)"
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Lecturer in Music History, University of Washington |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Cashner | "Faith, Hearing, and the Power of Music in Hispanic Villancicos, 1600-1700"
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Assistant Professor of Music, University of Rochester |
| Daniel Gough | "Listening in the Mega City: Music in Sao Paulo's Cultural Policy Worlds"
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Visiting Professor, Tulane University |
| Alisha Jones | "'We are a Peculiar People': Meaning, Masculinity, and Competence in Gendered Gospel Performance"
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Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Indiana University |
| Andrea Jordan | "House Around Irish Music: Past and Present in Discourses of Irish Music from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries"
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Lecturer, University of California Davis |
| Yuan-Chen Li | "Wandering Viewpoints: Concerto for Cello and Two Ensembles"
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College |
| Andrew Mcmanus | "Killing the Goat: Opera in Seven Scenes"
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Adjunct Instructor, St. Xavier University |
| Marcelle Pierson | "The Voice Under Erasure: Singing, Melody, and Expression in Late Modernist Music"
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Lecturer in Music Theory, University of Pittsburgh |
| Peter Smucker | "A Listener-Sensitive Analytic Approach to Elliot Carter's Late Chamber Music, 1990-2012"
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Assistant Professor and Director of Music Theory, Stetson University |
| Claudio Vellutini | "Cultural Engineering: Italian Opera in Vienna, 1816-1848"
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Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia |
| Lillian Wohl | "The Musical Labors of Memory: Jewish Musical Performance in Buenos Aires"
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Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Los Angeles |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Andres Carrizo Aleman | "Alucinaciones"
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Founder and Artistic Director, Panama's Cultural Attaché to Israel, MusicArte Panama Contemporary Music Festival |
| Michael Figueroa | "Music and the Jerusalem Question: Song, Poetry, and Politics in Israel, 1967-Present"
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Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
| Shawn Keener | "The Giustiniana Phenomenon and Venetian Cultural Memory, 1400-1600"
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Editor, A-R Editions |
| Trent Leipert | "Feeling in the Cracks: Subjective Binds in European New Music"
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Lecturer, University of Regina |
| Michael O'Toole | "Sonic Citizenship: Music, Migration, and Transnationalism in Berlin’s Turkish and Anatolian Diasporas"
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Assistant Director, UChicago GRAD |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Melissa Bilal | "Thou Need'st Not Weep for I Have Wept Full Sore: An Affective Genealogy of the Armenian Lullaby in Turkey"
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Assistant Professor, American University of Armenia |
| Mary Caldwell | "Singing, Dancing, and Rejoicing in the Round: Latin Sacred Songs with Refrains, circa 1000-1582"
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Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| Jonathan Gregory | "Musical Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition"
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Associate Professor, Western University (CAN) |
| Katarzyna Grochowska | "Tenor Circles and Motet Cycles: A Study of the Stary Sacz [PL-SS Muz 9] And Its Implications for Modes of Repertory Organization in 13th Century Polyphonic Collections"
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Suzanne Scherr | "Puccini's 'Manon Lescaut:' compositional process, stylistic revisions, and editorial problems"
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Assistant Dean, Western Music; Full Time Music Faculty, SIAS University (China) |
| Dylan Schneider | "Chamber opera 'Strip-Tease' to the libretto of Slavomir Mrozek"
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Visiting Professor in Music, Amherst College |
| Martha Sprigge | "Aibilities to Mourn: Musical Commemoration in the German Democratic Republic (1945-1989)"
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Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara |
| Suzanne Wint | "The Western Classical Music Scene in Kampala, Uganda: A Music of the Other?"
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Instructor, The Princeton Review |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Mall | "“The stars are underground”: Undergrounds, mainstreams, and Christian popular music"
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Associate Professor of Music, Northeastern University |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Erika Honisch | "Sacred Music in Prague, 1580-1612"
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Associate Professor, History/Theory, Stony Brook University |
| Name | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrei Pohorelsky | "In Search of Ragtime: Music, Race and Capital in the American Twentieth Century"
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Assistant Professor of Musicology, Stanford University |
| Siavash Sabetrohani | "Music Theory between the Public Sphere and Nationalism in Eighteenth Century Berlin "
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Postdoc, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, 2024-25, Freie Universität Berlin |
| David Frederick Shuve-Wilson | "Media Dominance: Music, Nation and Pedagogies of Emotion in Modern Taiwan and China, 1928-2022"
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Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College |
