Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology with Historical Emphasis

2020
Kristen Clough, “Opera in Crisis? Revealing the Cultural and Political Impact of French Fourth Republic Opera, 1945-1958”

Jessica Grimmer, “Political Battlefields in French Musical Education: Provincial Conservatories under the Nazi Occupation and Vichy Regime”

Patricia Prokert, “Interpreting Race and Difference in the Operas of Richard Strauss”

2019
Anne Heminger, “Confession Carried Aloft: Music, Religious Identity, and Sacred Space in London, c. 1540-1560”

Austin Stewart, “The Opera is Booming. This is a City.: Opera in the Urban Frontier of Denver, 1864-1893”

2018
Kathryn Cox, “‘What Happened to the Post-War Dream?’: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Affect in British Rock of the 1960s and 1970s”

2016
Sarah Suhadolnik, “Navigating Jazz: Music, Place, and New Orleans”

Leah Weinberg “Opera behind the Myth: An Archival Examination of Einstein on the Beach”

2015
Jessica Getman, “Music, Race, and Gender in the Original Series of Star Trek (1966-69)”

2014
Sarah Gerk, “Far Away O’er the Ocean Go Journeymen, Cowboys, and Fiddlers: The Irish in Nineteenth-Century American Music”

2013
Daniel Blim, “Patchwork Nation: Collage, Music, and American Identity”

Alison DeSimone, “The Myth of the Diva: Female Opera Singers and Collaborative Performance in Early Eighteenth-Century London”

Nicholas Field, “Outlandish Authors: Innocenzo Fede and Musical Patronage at the Stuart Court in London and in Exile”

2012
Rebecca Fulop, “Heroes, Dames, and Damsels in Distress: Constructing Gender Types in Classical Hollywood Film Music”

Michael Mauskapf, “Enduring Crisis, Ensuring Survival: Artistry, Economics, and the American Symphony Orchestra”

2011
Scott Southard, “Focalization and Masculine Subjectivity in the Early Operas of Benjamin Britten”

Shinobu Yoshida, “Modeling Heroines in Giacomo Puccini’s Operas”