Education
Harvard University, Kenneth S. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, Department of Music
Secondary Field, History of Science
Dissertation: “Botanical Musicalities: Listening with Plant-Human Encounter”
Emory University, College of Arts and Sciences
BA in Music Research and French Studies (2019, summa cum laude)
Honors Thesis: “Singing of Sound and Silence”
Professional
Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2025-26)
Ecomusicology Study Group, American Musicological Society
Co-Chair (2025-27)
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship (2024-25)
Grounded Symposium, University of Oslo
Co-Organizer and Presenter (2024)
Musicology Now, American Musicological Society
Curatorial Committee (2022-24)
Harvard Graduate Music Forum (GMF)
Chair (2021 - 22); Conference Co-Chair (2020 - 21) (To Begin Again)
Harvard Faculty for Divestment (HFD)
Research Assistant (2021 – 2025)
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO)
Writer, Program Notes (2021 - 22) (samples)
Presentations & Publications
American Musicological Society (AMS)
“‘Please Hold Me in the Green’: Blackness, Planthood, and Critical Botanical Listening” (Nov. 2025)
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
“A Greener Ear: Listening with the Audible Atmospheres of Domestic Plantcare” (July 2025)
Royal Musicological Association (RMA), French Music Study Group
“…un son pour les connaître”: Listening in on Mélodie’s Gardens and Greenhouses (May 2025)
Critical Plant Studies and Cultures (Special Issue of Open Cultural Studies)
“Listening in the Virtual Greenhouse: Musics, Sounding, and Online Plantcare” (July 2024)
Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture Series, Tufts University
Talk: “Propagating Silence” + Workshop: “Soundscapes of the Small” (Oct. 2022)
Music Studies and the Anthropocene Research Network (MSARN)
“Seeding Silence: Botanical Beings and Posthuman (Un)Soundings” (May 2022)
Conference Report on Musicology Now (Feb. 2023)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US)
“Lost in the World(s): Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Generic Environmentalisms”
(May 2021). Article published on Sounding Board, Jan 2022.
The Graduate Review, Harvard Graduate Student Literary Magazine
“Outcry” (May 2021)