2025 Council Election Candidates

The American Musicological Society is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2025 AMS Council election. Balloting for Council elections will open to AMS members on 30 April 2025. The ballot will close 11:59pm ET, 31 May 2025. Members may each vote for up to ten (10) Council candidates.

Biographical information for Council candidates appears below.

Members of the AMS Council are elected each year according to the procedures set forth in the Society’s By-Laws and Administrative Handbook. For 2025, the Board presents to the membership a slate of twenty-five (25) candidates.

CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL

Lidia Chang, Assistant Professor, Colorado College. Ph.D., CUNY, 2021 (“‘Leisure with Decorum’: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian Era”). Article in Musique-Images-Instruments. Twelve Cotillions by Giovanni Gallini, 1770 (Regencydance.org, 2015), Country Dances by Thomas Skillern, 1781 (Regencydance.org, 2015). Public musicology work with the Jane Austen Society of North America and The Thing About Auten (podcast). Research interests: music and gender, organology, British music, print culture. Co-founder and co-chair, AMS Organology Study Group.

Stephanie Doktor, Assistant Professor, Temple University. Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2016 (“‘The Jazz Problem’: How U.S. Composers Grapple With the Sounds of Blackness, 1917−1925”). Author of Reconstructing Whiteness: Race in the Early Jazz Marketplace (under contract with University of California Press). Articles in JAMS, JSAM, American Music. Chapters in Beyond the Bandstand: Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2024) and Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies (2024). Research interests: Jazz, music and race, inequality, gender. Co-founder, AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group.

Anna B. Gatdula, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2023 (“Spectacles of a Nuclear Empire: Opera and Film in the American Atomic Age, 1945–2018”). Articles in JSAM, American Music, Current Musicology. Research interests: twentieth-century U.S. and Cold War history, opera and performance studies, critical and media theory, sound studies. Founding Member, Project Spectrum.

Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Associate Professor of Music, Georgia College and Georgia State University. Ph.D., McGill University, 2013 (“Pre-existing Music in United States Presidential Campaigns, 1972−2012”). Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency (University of Michigan Press, 2023). Articles in Music & Politics, JSAM, Journal of Popular Music, American Music. Chapters in Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity (Routledge, 2016), The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising (2021). Founder, “Trax on the Trail,” a website and research project that tracks the soundscapes of US presidential elections. Expert opinion for the BBC, The Guardian, Newsweek, CNN, Politico, Vox, and the Washington Post.

Jane Daphne Hatter, Associate Professor, University of Utah. Ph.D., McGill University, 2007 (“Marian Motets in Petrucci’s Venetian Motet Anthologies”). Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self- Reference, Pedagogy and Practice (CUP, 2019). Articles in Die Tonkunst, Early Music. Chapter in Conversations: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe (University of Manchester Press, 2017). Fellow at Villa I Tatti, book project Musical Women in Visual Culture of Early Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gender, Sexuality, and Knowledge. Research interests: music the visual arts, music associates with women’s rituals, self-reference in music, musical community, digital humanities.

Kimberly Beck Hieb, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, West Texas A&M University. Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2015 (“‘For the Delight of God and Men’: Absolutism, Genre, and Instrumental Music in Seventeenth-Century Salzburg”). Music, Piety, and Political Power in 17th-century Salzburg (Routledge, 2024), The Amarillo Symphony: The First One Hundred Years (Mission Point Press, 2024). Editor, Andreas Hofer, Ver sacrum seu flores musici (A-R Editions, 2021), Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (forthcoming). Articles in JMHP (forthcoming), Journal of Musicology, Musicologica Brunensia. Book reviews in Notes. Assistant Editor, WLSCM. AMS Southwest Chapter Treasurer. Former Copy editor, JSCM. Former Treasurer, AMS Pedagogy Study Group. Member, AMS Pedagogy, Global Music History, and Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Groups. AMS Eugene K. Wolf Grant Recipient.

Joseph E. Jones, Professor, University of Southern Mississippi. Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2009 (“Der Rosenkavalier: Genesis, Modelling, and New Aesthetic Paths”). Articles in Journal of Music Research Online, Journal of Musicological Research, Music Research Forum, A-R Music Anthology. Co-edited volumes: Richard Strauss in Context (Cambridge, 2020) and Genetic Criticism and the Creative Process: Essays from Music, Literature, and Theater (Boydell & Brewer, 2009). Publications on Mahler, Wagner, Strauss, and video game music; broader research interests include Viennese cultural history and primary source studies.

David Kidger, Associate Professor, Oakland University. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998 (“The Masses of Adrian Willaert: A Critical Study of Sources, Style and Context”). Adrian Willaert: A Guide to Research (Routledge, 2005). Articles in Music and Letters, Musical Quarterly, Early Music, Journal of Alamire Foundation. Editor, Complete Works: Petrus de Domarto (Antico), Orchester-Sinfonien mit zwölf obligaten Stimmen (CPE Bach Complete Works). Research interests: music in early modern Venice, BBC postwar outreach activities. Member, AMS-MLA Joint RISM Committee, Technology Committee. Host, AMS-Midwest Chapter Meeting (2011).

Rebecca Marchand, Professor, Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara, 2007 (“The Impact of the Second Vatican Council on the Concert Mass in the United States”). Publications include a festschrift essay, “Missa Eclectica: Lou Harrison and Artistic Ideologies after Vatican II” (American Institute of Musicology, 2015), as well as book reviews in Bulletin of the SAM, Music & Letters, and Notes. President (2012–2016), AMS New England Chapter. Planning Committee and on-site representative for AMS New England Chapter for AMS Many Musics of America project, 2023. Founding member/secretary of Haydn Society of North America. Faculty Director of the ETUDE (Enhancing Teaching through an Understanding of Diversity and Equity) Scholars at Berklee.

Laurie McManus, Associate Professor, Shenandoah University. Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011 (“The Rhetoric of Sexuality in the Age of Brahms and Wagner”). Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination (Oxford UP, 2021). Trauma, Sound, and Music in the Contemporary Horror Film (under contract at Routledge). Articles in Nineteenth-Century Music, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, JMHP, Jazz Perspectives, Studi Musicali and the American Brahms Society Newsletter. Research interests: trauma studies, gender studies, film music, nineteenth-century music, Brahms, Wagner. AMS Bozarth Award Recipient. Vice-Chair, AMS Capital Chapter. Vice President, American Brahms Society.

Toru Momii, Assistant Professor, Harvard University. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2021 (“Music Analysis and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Interculturality in the Music of Honjoh Hidejirō, Miyata Mayumi, and Mitski”). Articles in Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, and Circuit. Co-organizer of Engaged Music Theory Working Group. Research interests: musical interculturality, racial and colonial politics of U.S./Canadian music theory, performance analysis, Asian/American performance, gagaku, and popular music of Japan and the Japanese diaspora.

Matthew Mugmon, Associate Professor, University of Arizona. Ph.D., Harvard University, 2013 (“The American Mahler: Musical Modernism and Transatlantic Networks, 1920–1960”). Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler (University of Rochester Press, 2019; AMS 75 PAYS Subvention). Articles in The Journal of Musicology, Journal of Musicological Research, Music & Letters, Grove Dictionary of American Music. Chapters in Leonard Bernstein in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2024), The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V: The Symphony in the Americas (Indiana University Press, 2023). Co-editor, Ambrosiana at Harvard: New Sources of Milanese Chant (Harvard University Press, 2010). Research Interests: American music, modernism, reception, and music history pedagogy. Member, JAMS Editorial Board, AMS Communications Committee.

Diane Oliva, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan. Ph.D., Harvard University, 2020 (“Earthquakes in the Eighteenth-Century Musical Imagination”). Article in JAMS. Essays in American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History and Adventure, Inquiry, Discovery: CLIR-Mellon Fellows and the Archives. Research Interests: Atlantic world, colonial music, early modern music. Co-Chair, AMS Committee on Race, Indigeneity, and Ethnicity.

Samuel Parler, Assistant Professor, Baylor University. Ph.D., Harvard University, 2017 (“Musical Racialism and Racial Nationalism in Commercial Country Music, 1915−1953”). Articles in JAMS, Journal of Musicology, Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Research interests: country music, U.S. popular music, race, media. Program Committee Member, AMS Popular Music Study Group.

Linda Pearse, Professor of Music, Mount Allison University, Canada Research Chair in Music, Contact, and Conflict. Indiana University Bloomington, Doctor of Music, 2011; Ph.D., McGill University. (ABD ant. 2026) (“The Sonic Machine: Sound and Music in the Thirteen Years’ War (1593–1606) between the Austrian Habsburgs and Ottomans”). Co-author, The Early Trombone: A Catalogue of Music (Brepols, 2023). Editor, Seventeenth-Century Italian Concerted Motets with Trombone, Collegium Musicum (A-R Edition, 2014). Director and performer, Hidden Treasures: Seventeenth-Century Music of Habsburg and Bohemia (ATMA 2019) and Seventeenth-Century Italian Motets with Trombones (ATMA 2015). Chapter in Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom (Routledge, 2024). Articles in Cahiers de la Société Québécoise de recherche en musique, MUSICultures: Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, Journal of the Society for Ming Studies. Research interests: intercultural encounter and music of the 16th and 17th centuries, sound studies, early brass instruments. AMS Service: Teaching Music History Committee, 2024–.

Jillian Rogers, Assistant Professor, University of Florida. Ph.D., UCLA, 2014 (“Grieving Through Music in Interwar France: Maurice Ravel and His Circle, 1914-1934”). Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars (Oxford UP, 2021). Articles in JAMS, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Transposition, Music & Letters. Chapters in Music and War in Europe from the French Revolution to WWI and Music and Death. Co-editor, Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound, and Trauma Studies (under contract). Research interests: 19th/20th-century French music; sound studies; music, gender, and sexuality; disability studies; 20th/21st-century musical institutions. Review editor, JAMS. Co-founder, AMS Music, Sound, and Trauma Study Group.

John Romey, Assistant Professor, Purdue University. Fort Wayne. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2018 (“Popular Song, Opera Parody, and the Construction of Parisian Spectacle, 1648—1713”). Articles in Early Modern French Studies, The Journal of Musicology, Yale Journal of Music & Religion, Cambridge Opera Journal, Early Music History. Founding member, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and SSCM Secretary. AMS Holmes/D’Accone Travel Grant Recipient. Former member of AMS Technology Committee and AMS Communications Committee.

Eduardo Sato, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech. Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023 (“Modernist Crossing in Brazilian Music, 1910−1954”). Articles in Estudos Avançados, Twentieth-Century Music (forthcoming). Research interests: Brazilian music, transnationalism, modernism, music and race. Recipient of AMS M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Travel Grant (2021) and AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship (2022). Member of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund Committee.

Christopher M. Scheer, Associate Professor, Utah State University, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2007 (“Fin-de-Siècle Britain: Imperialism and Wagner in the Music of Gustav Holst”). Articles in Journal of Musicological Research and Journal of Victorian Culture. Co-editor, Enchanted Modernities: Mysticism, Landscape, and the American West (Fulgur Press, 2019). Chapters in Explorations in Music and Esotericism (Rochester University Press, 2023), Growing the Third Ear Under the Great Astral Mother Tree (Kerber Verlag, 2022), Britten in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850−1950 (Boydell and Brewer, 2020). The Legacy of Richard Wagner; exhibit “Enchanted Modernities: Mysticism, Landscape, and the American West” (Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art). President, Rocky Mountain Chapter.

Saraswathi Shukla, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 2021 (“A Material and Anti-material History of the Ancien Régime Harpsichord: Enlightenment Economies of Artisanal Knowledge”). Articles in Sound Studies Review, Keyboard Perspectives, Eighteenth-Century Music. Research Interests: harpsichord, early music revival, 17th/18th-century music, France. Recipient of AMS 50 Fellowship, Georges Lurcy Fellowship, Chateaubriand, DAAD Study Scholarship.

Caitlan Truelove, Adjunct Instructor, Mount Saint Mary College. Ph.D., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 2023 (“Musicalizing the Twenty-First Century: Genre, Production, and Song Integration in the Television Musical Series, 2000–Present”). Articles in Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media (Routledge, 2025), Oxford Handbook of Music and Television (Oxford University Press, 2024), Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies (Oxford University Press, 2025). Research interests: television, musical theater. Editorial Assistant, JAMS.

Rachana Vajjhala, Assistant Professor, University of California Davis. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015 (“The Politics of Belle Époque Ballet”). Articles and chapters in 19th-Century Music, JRMA, Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet/ Book: Kinetic Culture: modernism and Embodiment on the Belle Epoque Stage (University of California Press, 2023). Research interests: ballet, twentieth century music.

Laura Vasilyeva (Protano-Biggs), Associate Professor, Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (“Musical Materialities in Milan and Liberal Italy at the Fine Secolo”). Opera and the Built Environment (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Publications in Cambridge Opera Journal, Opera Quarterly, Music and Letters, and Studi Verdiani. Visiting faculty at University of Pennsylvia, visiting fellow at Cambridge University; Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award (2018) and Dean’s Accelerator Award (2024). Research interests: opera, environment, architecture, Italy, Horn of Africa.

Justin Vickers, Distinguished Professor, Illinois State University, A.Mus.D. in Performance and Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 (“‘The Ineffable Moments Will Be Harder Won’: The Genesis, Compositional Process, and Early Performance History of Michael Tippett’s The Heart’s Assurance”). Editor and contributor, Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900 (Oxford U. Press, forthcoming); Elizabeth Maconchy in Context (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); Britten in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2022); and Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art (Boydell Press, 2016); Articles and chapters: Musical Times, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Music and Letters, Literary Britten, The Sea in the British Musical Imagination. Research interests: UK, Britten, music and childhood. Recipient: Fulbright Award (UK, 2021), 2023 Eva Judd O’Meara Award for Best Review (Notes). AMS–Library of Congress Lecture (2017). Member, AMS Development Committee.

Kendall Hatch Winter, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College. Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“Suffragist and Antisuffragist Songs in the United States, 1867–1920”). Publications in Cambridge Opera Journal and Musicology Now. Research interests: 19th-century American music, women composers, music and politics. Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service (UNC) and Margery Lowens Dissertation Award (SAM). Southeast Chapter Student Representative to AMS Council. Member, AMS Committee for Career-Related Issues.