I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Music History & Theory. My dissertation, Fractured Voices within the Union: Music, Memory, and Futures in Late Soviet Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, investigates how music mediated cultural memory and political imagination in the 1980s. Drawing on archival research, musical analysis, and interviews, I examine opera controversies, composers’ unions, and mass musical events in the Baltic states and Ukraine. I show how institutions and publics mobilized music to negotiate national pasts and imagine cultural futures, situating these debates within broader histories of the present.
I have presented at international conferences in Europe and North America, including the American Musicological Society and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. My publications include a chapter in Baltic Musics Beyond the Post-Soviet, eds. Jeffers Engelhardt and Katherine Pukinskis (University of Tartu Press, 2024), and a review in Slavonic and East European Review (2023).
My work has been supported by the American Musicological Society Research and Travel Grant, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Dissertation Grant, and several University of Chicago research awards. My earlier background includes piano performance, cultural institutions, arts management, and music events in Europe.
Teaching Experience
- Introduction to Western Art Music (Course Assistant, Winter 2023; Instructor of Record, Spring 2023 & Fall 2024)
- The Eurovision Song Contest (Course Assistant, Spring 2022)