Kirsten Paige Awarded Fellowship in Garden & Landscape Studies

Kirsten Paige has been awarded a 2025-26 Research Fellowship in Garden & Landscape Studies from Dumbarton Oaks, the research center, museum, and library collection administered by Harvard University that specializes in Byzantine, Garden & Landscape, and Pre-Columbian Studies. Paige’s fellowship will provide time and space for her to work on her new project, “Keyboard Botany: Climate, Empire, and the Tropical Piano in Southeast Asia.” Congratulations, Kirsten!

About Kirsten Paige

Dr. Paige serves on the musicology faculty at North Carolina State University. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and received her Ph.D. in Music History from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Paige’s work asks how nineteenth-century musical cultures formed, sustained, and disrupted regimes of scientific knowledge and attendant constructions of human difference. In her latest research, she examines the environmental and political lives of musical instruments in colonial contexts, with an emphasis on Southeast Asia.

Dr. Paige’s first book, Richard Wagner’s Political Ecology, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Other essays have appeared in journals including 19th-Century Music, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the Cambridge Opera Journal, and Opera Quarterly. In addition, Dr. Paige is currently co-editing and contributing chapters to the Cambridge Companion to Music & the Environment (under contract with Cambridge University Press), a special issue of Cultural Politics on music and “carbon form,” and a special issue of Keyboard Perspectives on global keyboard histories.