Ph.D. Program Alumni
Ph.D. Program Alumni
| Name | Term Graduated | Dissertation Title |
| Aaslid, Vilde | Spring 2014 | "Interaction, Collaboration, and Improvisation in the Intersection of Jazz and Poetry" |
| Adkins, Joseph | Spring 2014 | "Strange Tales from Appalachia: Pammanottus" |
| Barton, Scott | Fall 2012 | "Understanding Musical Discontinuity" |
| Bidgood, Lee | Spring 2011 | "'America is All Around Here': An Ethnography of Bluegrass Music in Contemporary Czech Republic" |
| Bishop, Michael | Summer 2012 | "A Socioesthetics of Punk: Theorizing Personal Narrative, History, and Place" |
| Carlson, Gretchen | Spring 2016 | "Jazz Goes to the Movies: Contemporary Jazz Musicians' Work at the Intersections of the Jazz and Film Art Worlds" |
| Chattleton, Kyle | Spring 2022 | "The Sono-Affective and Charlottesville's Response to the 'Summer of Hate'" |
| Christie, Alex | Spring 2024 | "Light, Sound, Systems, Deer: Nonhuman Agency & Intermedia Practice" |
| Clark, Victoria | Spring 2021 | "The Indigenous Experience in Twentieth-Century Musical Indianism" |
| Coddington, Amy | Summer 2017 | "Rap on the Radio: Making Hip Hop into Hit Pop, 1986-1994" |
| Comen, Craig | Spring 2019 | "At the Origins of Music Analysis" |
| Cook, Julia | Spring 2013 | "Re-Enchanting Modernity in the Imaginative Geek Counterculture: Musical Life and Performance in Neo-Pagan, Society for Creative Anachronism, and Science Fiction Podcasting Communities" |
| Cosper, David | Spring 2011 | "Interpretation, Narrativity, and Musical Performance" |
| Culpeper, Sarah | Fall 2013 | "Performing Conformity, Unleashing Craft: Female Vocalists of Postwar Pop, 1945-1956" |
| Davis, Kevin | Spring 2017 | "Instrumentality in the Expanded Field of Music Composition" |
| D'Elia, Peter | Summer 2016 | "Critiquing the Enlightenment: Beethoven's Music in Early Romanticism" |
| Decker, Jeffrey | Fall 2012 | "A Man Without Envy: Nat King Cole, Race, Integration and the Politics of Crossover" |
| Deluca, Erik | Spring 2016 | "Wolf Listening: Acoustemological Politics and Poetics of Isle Royale National Park" |
| Doktor, Stephanie | Fall 2016 | "'The Jazz Problem': How U.S. Composers Grappled With the Sounds of Blackness, 1917-1925" |
| Dye, Aldona | Spring 2021 | |
| Ek, Kirstin | Fall 2014 | "'A Precipice Between Deadly Perils": American Folk Music and the Mass Media, 1933-1959 |
| Ervin, Jarek | Spring 2017 | "New York Punk Rock: Genre as Mourning & Reconciliation (1967-1980)" |
| Flood, Elizabeth | Spring 2017 | "Now we'll have the women play": Class and Gender in Amateur Country Music Performance" |
| Gale, Emily | Spring 2014 | "Sounding Sentimental: American Popular Song from Nineteenth-Century Ballads to 1970s Soft Rock" |
| Goldin-Perschbacher, Shana | Spring 2008 | "Sexuality, Listening, and Intimacy: Gender Transgression in Popular Music, 1993-2008" |
| Greene, Tanner | Summer 2022 | "Vaporwave Is Dead: Sound, Community, and Metadata in Internet Music Genres" |
| Guarino, Maria | Spring 2012 | "Listen with the Ear of the Heart: A Contemplative Ethnography of Musical Performance, Communal Religions Life and Mystical Spirituality among the Monks of the Weston Priory" |
| Gunst, Stephanie | Spring 2019 | "Mechanized Voices and Machinic Bodies: The Music Box in US Popular Media" |
| Omar Guzman Fraire | Fall 2023 | "Revuelta Debil Instituent Modes of the Ungovernable: Life as an Aural / Critical Art Practice" |
| Hsu, Aurie | Fall 2012 | "Kinesonic Composition, Choreographed Sound: Balancing Kinetic and Kinesthetic Sense with Physical and Imagined Gesture in Music" |
| Hsu, Umi | Spring 2011 | "Redefining Asian America: Politics, Aesthetics, and Social Networks of Independent Rock Musicians" |
| Jones, Matthew | Spring 2014 | "How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Hearing AIDS, 1981-1996" |
| Kemper, Steven | Fall 2012 | "From Sacred Narrative to Evocations of Ancientness: Mythical Meaning in Contemporary Music" |
| Kirby, Jason | Summer 2016 | "Antimodernism and Genre from Country-Rock to Alt.Country, 1968-98." |
| Kleftis, Courtney | Spring 2016 | "Operatic Transvestism, Disguise Roles, and Women's Sexual Agency in Handel's Operas (1727-1741)" |
| Kojš, Juraj | Spring 2008 | "Cyberactions and Cyberinstruments via Physical Modeling Synthesis: Extending Musical Realities" |
| Lindau, Elizabeth | Summer 2012 | "Art is Dead. Long Live Rock! Avant-Gardism and Rock Music, 1967-1999" |
| Lewis, Steven | Summer 2018 | "Jazz Neoclassicism and Racial Uplift, 1970-2007" |
| Ludwig, Loren | Spring 2011 | "'Equal to All Alike': A Cultural History of the Viol Consort in England, c. 1550-1675" |
| Luna, Chris | Spring 2021 | "Environmental Sonic Translation" |
| Maguire, Ryan | Spring 2019 | "An Aesthetic of the Irreducible" |
| Mease, Heather | Spring 2024 | |
| Mellen, Emily | Summer 2023 | "Songs Across the Waves: The Music of Radio Bari" |
| Mueller, Justin | Spring 2020 | "Aural Dramaturgies: A New Approach to the Operatic Soundscape" |
| O'Halloran, Sarah | Summer 2015 | "Stitching: Orality, Literacy, and Music" |
| Parks, Kevin | Fall 2020 | "Performing and Listening Bodies" |
| Peck, Chris | Spring 2015 | "Composition in an Expanded Field of Performance: Experimental Music in Collaboration with Contemporary Music" |
| Robbins, Allison | Summer 2010 | "Let's Face the Music and Dance: Hollywood Musicals and the Mediatization of Broadway, 1933-1939" |
| Robertson, Ben | Spring 2021 | "Intersections in Actuated String Instrument Design, Performance, and Just Tuning Practices" |
| Rome, Rachel Devorah Wood | Spring 2018 | "Resonant Sonic Specificity" |
| Rubin, Nicholas | Spring 2010 | "Signing On: U.S. College Rock Radio and the Popular Music Industry, 1977-1983" |
| Sammons, Lanier | Spring 2012 | "Audience Interactivity and the Concert Hall Audience" |
| Simonson, Mary | Summer 2007 | "Music, Dance, and Female Creativity in Early Twentieth-Century American Performance" |
| Spitsyn, Yury | Summer 2015 | "Composing with EncycloSpace: a Recombinant Sample-based Algorithmic Composition Framework" |
| Stepp, Aaron | Fall 2020 | "Py2MusicXML: Software for Prototyping Musical Ideas in Python" |
| Stewart, Tracey | Summer 2021 | "Music, Memory, Power: Being Jamaican Maroon in the Past, Present, and Future" |
| Stine, Eli | Spring 2019 | "Modeling Natural Systems in Immersive Electroacoustic Sound" |
| Stucky, Rami | Spring 2022 | "When Bossa Nova Was: The Sounds and Flavors of Brazilian Music in the United States during the 1960s" |
| Swendsen, Peter | Fall 2009 | "Amplified Whispers and the Artifice of Inaction: for Electroacoustic Music and Interactive Dance" |
| Szabo, Victor | Spring 2015 | "Ambient Music as Popular Genre: Historiography, Interpretation, Critique" |
| Tfirn, Maxwell | Summer 2017 | "Hearing Images and Seeing Sound: The Creation of Sonic information Through Image Interpolation" |
| Traub, Peter | Fall 2010 | "Spatial Exploration: Physical Abstracted, and Hybrid Spaces as Compositional Parameters in Sound Art" |
| Tschirhart, Peter | Spring 2013 | "Sound Maps and the Prepresentation of Audible Space" |
| Turowski, Paul | Spring 2016 | "Digital Game as Musical Notation" |
| Vasquez Gomez, Juan | Summer 2023 | "Ecstasy / Light / Inertia: Interactive Gamification for New Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art" |
| Warren, Kristina | Spring 2017 | "Show More/Show Less: Extended Voice, Technology, and Presence" |
| Warren, Lydia | Spring 2021 | "Home of the Blues: Performance, Tourism, and Tips on Beale Street" |
| Young, Hannah | Spring 2023 | ""Include Women in the Sequel": Representation and Women of Color in the Second Golden Age of Broadway" |
| Zorn, Jonathan | Spring 2012 | "Voices in the Electronic Furnace: Towards an Analysis of Electroacoustic Vocal Music" |