2025 Board Election Candidates

Fletcher Professor of Music, Tufts University

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Chicago; M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Colorado College
Research Areas: Music and technology, sound studies, Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, turn of the century Paris and Vienna, Weimar Berlin, Luigi Nono
Selected Publications: Music in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries (Norton, 2013); Anthology of Music in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries (Norton, 2013); A Schoenberg Reader (Yale, 2003). Numerous articles and essays in edited collections.
Awards: Fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; Tufts Distinguished Scholar Award, and Honorary Doctorate, The Colorado College.
Administrative Experience: Founding Dean, University College, Tufts University; Academic Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, and Chair, Department of Music, Tufts University; Associate Provost, SUNY Stony Brook
AMS Activities: Vice President; Board of Directors; JAMS Editor-in-Chief; JAMS Editorial Board; Roland Jackson Prize Committee; Ruth Solie Award Committee; Communications Committee; Council; AMS-50 Committee; Board Nominating Committee

Professor of Musicology, Ohio State University

Degrees: Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1999; B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Research Areas: Diplomacy; Cold War politics; women in U.S. musical organizations
Selected Publications: Music on the Move (Michigan, 2020); “‘What can the AMS do?’: The Scholarly Society and the Academic Jobs Crisis,” Musicology Now (2019); Music in America’s Cold War Diplomacy (California, 2015); Database of Cultural Presentations, http://musicdiplomacy.org/database (2015); Music Divided: Bartók’s Legacy in Cold War Culture (California, 2007)
Awards: AMS Honorary Member (2023); AMS Teaching Award (2021); Assn. of Research Libraries, TOME Open Monograph Initiative Subvention (2018); AMS Publication Subvention (2014); NEH Fellowship (2011–12); Princeton Society of Fellows (2000–03); AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship (1998–99)
Administrative Experience: Director, Imagined Futures Graduate Professional Development Initiative (2022–); Society for American Music Board of Directors (2016–19); Area Head for Musicology, Ohio State University (2014–16)

Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Florida State University

Degrees: Ph.D., M.A., University of California, Davis; M.M., Mannes College of Music
Research Areas: eighteenth-century music, sound studies, performance practice, music and religion, digital humanities, geospatial musicology, music in early America, Native American and Indigenous studies
Selected Publications: Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania (Indiana Univ. Press, 2020); articles in Early Music, The William and Mary Quarterly, and The Journal of the American Musicological Society; chapters in Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century, Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida, Studying Congregational Music: Key Issues, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives
Awards: Fulbright Fellow; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship; Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship; Music in American Culture Award (AMS); Marjorie Weston Emerson Award (Mozart Society of America); Robert F. Heizer Award (American Society for Ethnohistory); Dale W. Brown Book Award (Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies); Lester J. Cappon Award (Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture); Srinivas Aravamudan Prize (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies); Developing Scholar Award (Council on Research and Creative Activity, Florida State University); Publication Subvention (AMS); Sight & Sound Subvention (SAM); H. Earle Johnson Publication Subvention (SAM)
Administrative Experience: Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Florida State University College of Music; Director, Early Music Program, Florida State University College of Music; Coordinator of Musicology, Florida State University College of Music; President and Board of Directors, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music; Vice President and Board of Directors, Mozart Society of America; Chair, Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award Committee, SAM; Local Arrangements Committee, SEM; Program Committee, SAM
AMS Activities: Co-Chair, Education Committee, 2023–; Board of Directors, Director-at-Large, 2021-23; Strategic Planning Committee, 2021–23; Chair, Communications and Publications Committee; Noah Greenberg Award Committee, 2015–17 (Chair 2017); Council Nominating Committee, 2017–18, 2013–14; Council, 2017–20, 2012–15, Local Arrangements Committee, 2010

Professor of Music and Charles A. Dana Chair, Dickinson College

Degrees: Ph.D., Eastman, 2006; M.A., Eastman, 2001; B.A., Middlebury, 1997
Research Areas: Jewish music, the Holocaust, World War II, trauma studies, memory studies
Selected Publications: Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation (Cambridge, 2015); George Rochberg, American Composer (Rochester, 2019). Co-editor (with Elaine Kelly) Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture (Brill, 2011). Numerous articles and essays in edited collections.
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship; Lewis Lockwood Award; Irving Lowens Article Prize; Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching; Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching; Postsecondary Teaching Award (Oral History Association).
Administrative Experience: Faculty Resident Director, Dickinson-in-Italy; Departmental Chair and Faculty Personnel Committee, Dickinson College; Director of College Choir, Dickinson College
AMS Activities: JAMS, Editor-in-Chief/Associate Editor; Council

Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies – McGill University

Degrees: Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook (2001); M.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook (1994); B.A. Antioch College (1987)
Research Areas: Jazz studies, feminist musicology, modernist histories, opera and music-theater, cultural theory, and collaboration
Selected Publications: Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration (Wesleyan, 2023); “‘Taking Care of Music’: Gender, Arranging and Collaboration in the Liston-Weston Partnership.” Special Issue on Melba Liston, Black Music Research Journal 34, no. 1 (2014), 97-119. Numerous articles and essays.
Awards: Kurt Weill Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in Music Theater; Philip Brett Award (2014, 2024); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant; Honorable Mention for the 2025 Woody Guthrie Award (International Association for the Study of Popular Music- US Branch), AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship
Administrative Experience: Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, McGill; Co-editor-in-Chief, ​Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture​; guest co-editor, Black Music Research Journal.
AMS Activities: Einstein Committee (Chair); Committee on Race, Indigeneity, and Ethnicity (Co-chair), Committee on Woman and Gender

Professor of Music, University of North Georgia

Degrees: Ph.D., M.A., Yale University; B.M., University of Puget Sound
Selected Publications: Everybody Sing! Community Singing in the American Picture Palace (Georgia, 2018); Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context (North Georgia, 2020); editor of: Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom: Crossover, Exchange, Appropriation (Routledge, 2024) and Oxford Handbook of Community Singing (Oxford, 2024). Numerous articles and essays.
Awards: AMS Publication Subvention; Chancellor’s Learning Scholar, University System of Georgia; Teaching Excellence Award, University of North Georgia; Emerging Leader Award, University of North Georgia
Administrative Experience: Assistant Director of Academic Engagement, University of North Georgia; President, Georgia Pick & Bow Traditional Music School
AMS activities: President and Vice President, AMS South-Central Chapter; AMS Council; Digital/Multimedia Reviews Editor, JAMS; Co-Chair, AMS Pedagogy Study Group

Franco Professor of Humanities and Assistant Professor of Music, Davidson College

Degrees: M.Phil., M.A., Ph.D. New York University; M.A. Dartmouth College; M.Mus. The Juilliard School; B.Mus. Royal Academy of Music
Research Areas: Opera; Voice and Sound Studies; African American History; Comparative Literature; Gender and Sexuality
Selected Publications: Deconstructed Divas: Narrative and the Operatic Femme Fatale (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming), “Black Holograms: Techno-Necropolitical Performance of Blackness and its Eradication,” American Music 42.3 (2025); “Metonymic Blackness,” Musicology Now (2025, Forthcoming), “Rhetoric of Seduction; or Materiality Under Erasure,” 19th-Century Music 43.3 (2020), “Nina Simone as Poet and Orchestrator: Black Female Subjectivity and the Exo(p)tic in ‘Images’ and ‘Four Women,’” Journal of Popular Music Studies, 33.2 (2021); Guest Editor of Special Issue, “Operatic Fictions,” for Opera Quarterly.
Administrative Experience: Founder and CEO, ChamberWorks Summer Music Institute (2010–); American Viola Society Board Member (2025-2026), Finance & Development Committee; Dvořák American Heritage Association Board Member (2016–)
Awards: Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship; NYU Dean’s Dissertation Award, Nielsen Center for Liberal Arts Early Career Fellowship; ACLS Society Scholar Fellowship
AMS Activities: Graduate Education Steering Committee (2019–2021); President, Southeast Chapter (2022–2024); Membership and Professional Development Committee (2021-2022), Task Force for Emergency Support (2020); Governance and Committees Task Force (2021-2022); Musicology Now Curatorial Board (2022–2025); Council Member (2022-2025); Council Nominating Committee (2024–2025); AMS Summer Institute–Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories (2025); Music Means: A Digital Platform for Exploring Music and Meaning in America (2025)

Professor of Music, Indiana University

Degrees: Ph.D., Yale University, 2001; B.A., Swarthmore College, 1995
Research Areas: Italian baroque opera, African American music
Selected Publications: Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy (Routledge, 2023); Dreaming with Eyes Open: Opera, Aesthetics, and Perception in Arcadian Rome (Oxford Univ. Press, 2019); “‘Like the Light of Liberty’: Art, Music, and Politics at the 1897 Tennessee State Fair, and the Long Century of African American Music,” JAMS 73.3 (2020): 722-38; “The Mock Heroic, an Intruder in Arcadia: Girolamo Gigli, Antonio Caldara and L’Anagilda,” Eighteenth-Century Music 7.1 (2010): 35–62; “Blues, Criticism, and the Signifying Trickster,” Popular Music 24.2 (2005): 179–91.
Awards: Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (Columbia University; National Endowment for the Humanities Grant; American Academy in Rome (Visiting Scholar); Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship; Social Science Research Council Grant; Mellon Foundation Grant
Administrative Experience: Chair, Department of Musicology, Indiana University, 2023-present; Vice President, Society for Seventeenth Century Music, 2021-2023
AMS Activities: Thomas Hampson Fund, 2023-25; Council, 2021-24; Holmes / D’Accone Dissertation Fellowship Committee, 2019-21; Cultural Diversity Committee, 2017-19