AMS 2024 Board and Council Election Results

The AMS is pleased to announce the results of the 2024 Board and Council election. The following individuals have been elected to the indicated Society offices. The candidates-elect will formally begin service in November 2024. Congratulations to the newly-elected and thank you to all those who stood for election!

Jack Blaszkiewicz is an Assistant Professor of Music History at Wayne State University. He received his Ph.D. from Eastman School of Music in 2018. He is the author of Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris (UC Press, 2024). He has published articles in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Current Musicology, and Journal of Musicology. His research interests include French music, opera and operetta, aesthetics, sound studies, and urban history. He has received the Fulbright Fellowship, Bartlett Travel Grant, and AMS-50 Fellowship. He is a former member of the Music and Professional Development Committee and the former Secretary of the Greater NY Chapter.

Julia Chybowskiis a Professor of Music at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She received her Ph.D. in Musicology from University of Wisconsin Madison. She has published articles in JAMS, American Music, JSAM, AMRC Journal, JHRME, Oxford Music Online, Open Access Musicology, and Routledge’s Milestones in Music Education. Her research interests include Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, Joshua Simpson, race and gender in 19th-century U.S., cultural history of music education. She is a former member of the Cohen Award Committee.

Samantha M. Cooper is an Ariel and Joshua Weiner Family Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. New York University in 2022. She is the author of American Jews and the Making of the New York Opera Industry, 1880-1940 (under contract with OUP) and has published articles in JSAM, American Jewish History, and Opera Quarterly. She is the co-Executive Director of Jewish Music Forum (ASJM), the host of The Sounding Jewish Podcast, and a past Student Representative of the AMS-NYU Lecture Committee. She was awarded the 2023 AMS-JSMSG Award for Best Article, and H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Endowment Grant.

Kate Galloway is an Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2010. She is the coeditor of Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans and has published articles in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, MUSICultures, Twentieth-Century Music, and American Music. She is the author of chapters in Sound Pedagogy, Virtual Identities and Digital Culture, and The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising.

Luis Manual Garcia-Mispireta is an Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2011 (“Intimacy and Affect at Electronic Dance Music Events in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin”). He is the author of Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke UP, 2023) and chapters in Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness, and Dreams of Germany. He has published articles in Sound Studies, Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Tourist Studies. His research interests include queer nightlife, affect, intimacy, sexuality, mobility/migration, creative industries, musical activism, and community care. He is an AMS Ethics Committee member, SEM Popular Music Section chair, and former Editorial Board member of Musicology Now.

Andrew Granade is a Professor at the UMKC Conservatory. He received his Ph.D. in Musicology from UIUC. He is the author of Harry Partch: Hobo Composer (University of Rochester Press, 2014), currently editing Just Writing: New Perspective on Partch, and has published articles in JSAM, American Music, Music and the Moving Image, Open Access Musicology, and many edited collections. He is a member of Pedagogy SG, chair of SG Website Committee, local arrangements for Teaching Music History Conference.

Robin James is an independent scholar and editor at Palgrave Macmillan. She received her Ph.D. from DePaul University in 2006 (“The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music”). She is the author of The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence (UNC Press), The Sonic Episteme (Duke), Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism (Zer0), and The Conjectural Body (Lexington). She was the JPMS co-editor from 2018-21. Her research interests include popular music, philosophy, gender/race, and capitalism.

Isadora Miranda is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. from UW-Madison in 2020. She has received Mellon and ACLS fellowships. Her current book project is on Tagalog zarzuela, cultural nationalism, and constructions of racial and gendered identities during the U.S. colonial period in the Philippines. Her article on the Tagalog diva for the Journal of Musicological Research won the inaugural Kauffman Prize in 2023. 

Guido Olivieri is the Professor of Instruction in Musicology at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his Ph.D. from UCSB. He is the author of String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Culture, Power, and Music Institutions (CUP, 2024) and edited books for LIM in 2023 and 2015. He has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Music, Studi Musicali, Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis, and Pergolesi Studies. He has contributed to New Grove, MGG, and Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. He directs early music ensemble “Austinato” and is the Past President Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.

Frederick Reece is an Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Music at Harvard University in 2018. His research interests include authorship and cultural authenticity. He is the author of Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon (in press, OUP) and a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory. He has published articles and reviews in JM and JAMS. He has received the AMS 50 Fellowship and Pisk Prize. He has given a concert talk with the Seattle Symphony.

Mary Simonson is an Associate Professor at Colgate University. She received her Ph.D. in Critical and Comparative Studies of Music at UVA. She is the author of Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the 20th Century (Oxford University Press) and has published articles in JSAM, JAMS, American Music, and Women & Music. Her current book project is on voice in American silent cinema. She is the President of the AMS-NYSSL Chapter and a member of the Music & Dance and Music & Media Study Groups.

Martha Sprigge is an Associate Professor of Musicology at UC Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2013. She is the author of Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic (OUP, 2021) and has published articles in 20th-Century Music and JRMA. Her current research is on widowhood and gendered labor in postwar Europe. She is the former chair of Cold War and Music Study Group (2018-20) and member of the Committee on Membership and Professional Development (2018-2021).

Lauren Eldridge Stewart is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Washington University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2016 (“Playing Haitian: Musical Negotiations of Nation, Genre, and Self”). She has published articles in Music & Politics, Twentieth-Century Music, Women & Music, Journal of Haitian Studies. Her research interests include classical music in the African diaspora, art music institutions, and community music education.

Jennifer Walker is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at West Virginia University. She received her Ph.D. from UNC-CH in 2019. She is the author of Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces: Transformation of Catholicism in the Music of Third Republic Paris (AMS Studies/OUP; winner of 2022 H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Award) and Hector Berlioz’s Requiem (forthcoming 2024, OUP). She is the recipient of M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Travel Grant, former editorial assistant of JAMS, member of Sustainable Mentoring Taskforce, and the current President and former Program Chair of the Allegheny Chapter.

Sarah Williams is a Professor of Music History at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. at Northwestern University. She specializes in early modern English popular music and culture. She has authored books with Ashgate and forthcoming with Routledge. She has published articles in JMR, Journal of 17th-Century Music, Open Access Musicology, and edited collections. She has received NEH Fellowships. She is the former Member-at-Large of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board, the co-PI for an Early Modern Songscapes digital project, and a member of the AMS Pedagogy Study Group.