Education
Harvard University, Kenneth S. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, Department of Music
Dissertation: “Instruments of Silence: Botanical Musicalities and Performances
of Natural Science”
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
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship (2024-25)
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 – present)
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO)
Writer, Program Notes (2021 - 22) (samples)
Presentations & Publications
American Musicological Society (AMS)
“Glassy Gardens, Shattered Sounds: Tinkering with the Botanical” (Nov. 2023)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
“Botanical Blackness: Musico-Sonic Intimacies and Environmental Justice”
(June 2023)
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 published on Musicology Now (Feb. 2023)
Society for American Music (SAM)
“Musical Menageries: Towards a Sounding of Archival Silences” (June 2021)
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)