2021 Council Election Nominees

The AMS Office is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2021 AMS Council election. Balloting for Board and Council elections will open to AMS members on Monday, 26 April 2021 and will remain open through 11:59PM ET on Monday, 31 May 2021. Members may each vote for up to ten (10) Council candidates.

Biographical information for Council candidates appears below. Board nominees are listed here. 

Members of the AMS Council are elected each year according to the procedures set forth in the Society’s the By-Laws  and Administrative Handbook. For 2021, the Board presents to the membership a slate of thirty candidates. Voting closes 31 May 2021.

CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL

Suhnne Ahn, Peabody. Ph.D., Harvard, 1997 (“Genre, Style, and Compositional Procedure in Beethoven’s ‘Kreuzer’ Sonata”). Chapter in The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. violin concerti e-edition of Paris Conservatory composers in progress; Former member of AMS Com. on Women & Gender; non-academic career panels; currently, Director of Peabody at Homewood Program at Johns Hopkins.

Jacqueline Avila, Associate Professor of Musicology, U. of Tennessee. Ph.D., UC Riverside, 2012. Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity during Mexico’s época de oro (OUP), articles in Journal of Film Music, Latin American Music Review, American Music, Opera Quarterly. Former member, Committee on Race and Ethnicity.

Micaela Baranello, assistant professor, U. of Arkansas. Ph.D., Princeton, 2014. Research interests: operetta, Vienna, opera staging practice. Publications: The Operetta Empire (UC Press), articles in JAMS (colloquy), Cambridge Opera Journal, Opera Quarterly, New York Times, Puccini and His World. Member of Communications Com. President, Opera Fayetteville.

Christopher Campo-Bowen, assistant professor, Virginia Tech. Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill, 2018 (“‘We Shall Remain Faithful’: The Village Mode in Czech Opera, 1866–1928”). Articles in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Musical Quarterly. Music, ethnicity, gender, and empire in the Czech lands. Comm on Career-Related Issues, former Student Rep, Council.

Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang, U. of Sheffield. Ph.D., UCLA, 2014. A Vocal Interior: Korean Hymns and Prayers between US and Japanese Empires (in progress). Articles in Ethnomusicology Forum, Music and Politics, Journal of Korean Studies. Member of Global East Asia SG, Global Music History SG, Cold War and Music SG (member-at-large, 2018-20)

Julia J. Chybowski, U. of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin Madison, 2008 (“Developing American Taste: A Cultural History of the Early Twentieth-Century Music Appreciation Movement”). Research on Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and cultural history of music education published in JAMS, JSAM, American Music Research Center Journal, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education. Former member of the Cohen Award Committee.

Keith Clifton, Prof. Central Michigan U. Ph.D. Northwestern, 1998 ("Maurice Ravel's L'Heure espagnole: Genesis, Sources, Analysis"). Articles in CMS, CUMR, JMR, AmeriGrove, 2e. Recent American Art Song (Scarecrow). Honegger, Poulenc, Popular Music, LGBTQIA+ studies. Secretary of Midwest Chapter, former member of Com. on Career-Related Issues and Com. on Cultural Diversity.

Lauren Eldridge Stewart, Washington U., Ph.D. U. of Chicago, 2016 (“Playing Haitian: Musical Negotiations of Nation, Genre, and Self”). Articles in Music & Politics and Women & Music. Classical music in the African diaspora, global aid in music education, sampling and storytelling.

Louis Epstein, St. Olaf College. Ph.D., Harvard, 2013. Co-editor of Open Access Musicology. Articles in JM, JMHP, Revue de musicologie, Music & Politics. Monograph, The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France, forthcoming from Boydell Press. Chair of Pedagogy SG. Member of AMS Teaching Award Com.

Michael A. Figueroa, UNC-CH. Ph.D., Chicago, 2014. Research: Jewish and Middle Eastern musics. Books: City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem (OUP, forthcoming), Performing Commemoration (UMich, 2020, ed. vol.). Articles in Ethnomusicology Forum, JMHP, forthcoming in JM and Ethnomusicology. Former member, AMS CCD (Co-Chair, 2018–20), MPD Com.

Andrew Flory, Carleton College. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 2006 (“I Hear a Symphony: Making Music at Motown, 1959–1979”). I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B (Michigan), co-author of What’s That Sound (Norton), articles in American Music, Twentieth-Century Music, JAMS. Former service as Chair of Music in American Culture Award Com., Chair of Capital Chapter, and member of Popular Music SG.

Christine Lee Gengaro, Los Angeles City College. Ph.D., USC, 2005 ("It Was Lovely Music That Came to My Aid": Music’s Contribution to the Narrative of the Novel, Film, and Play, A Clockwork Orange”). Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films (Scarecrow Press, 2013) and Experiencing: Chopin (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017). Articles in Popular Music and Society, Resonance. Member of Global Music History SG, LGBTQ SG, Pedagogy SG, Music and Media SG, Popular Music SG.

Andrew Granade, UMKC. Ph.D., UIUC, 2005. Harry Partch: Hobo Composer (U of Rochester Press, 2014). Articles in JSAM, American Music, Music and the Moving Image, Popular Music and Society. American experimentalism, film music, TV music, pedagogy, wind band. Member, Pedagogy SG.

Stefan Sunandan Honisch, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at U. of British Columbia. Ph.D., UBC, 2016 (“Different Eyes, Ears, and Bodies: Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii and the Education of the Sensorium through Musical Performance”). Postdoctoral work on Helen Keller. Articles in Music Theory Online, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, Journal of Teaching Disability Studies. Co-chair of Music and Disability SG, Copyeditor, Postcolonial Text.

Robin James, UNC Charlotte. Ph.D., DePaul, 2006 (“The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music”). The Sonic Episteme (Duke), Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism (Zer0), The Conjectural Body (Lexington). Popular music, philosophy, feminism, capitalism, public musicology.

Loren Ludwig, independent scholar. Ph.D., UVa, 2011. (“‘Equal to All Alike’: A Cultural History of the Viol Consort in England, c.1550–1675”). Performer scholar. Music and alchemy (furnaceandfugue.org, Uva Press 2020), International Center for Jefferson Studies fellow 2020. Public programming on racial equity in early music (Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, etc.), Founding member LeStrange Viols and ACRONYM.

Andrew Mall, Northeastern U. Ph.D., U. of Chicago, 2012 (“‘The Stars Are Underground’: Undergrounds, Mainstreams, and Christian Popular Music”). God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music (UC Press), co-editor of Studying Congregational Music (Routledge). Co-edited forum in Twentieth-Century Music. Book review co-editor of Ethnomusicology. Co-organizer, AMS Popular Music Study Group pre-conference symposium, 2019.

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Carleton College. Ph.D., U. Penn, 2015 (“Searching for Wagner in Japan”). Japan’s Green Monster: Environmental Commentary in Kaijū Cinema (McFarland), Shonen Knife’s “Happy Hour”: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll (Bloomsbury). Articles in Horror Studies, Wagner Journal, Journal of Music and the Moving Image. Member of Global East Asia Music Research SG, Music and Media SG.

Isidora Miranda, Vanderbilt University Postdoc. Ph.D., UW-Madison, 2020 (“Dissonant Voices: Tagalog Zarzuela and the Politics of Representation in the Philippines, 1902–1942”). Article on Atang de la Rama forthcoming in Journal of Musicological Research. Other publications on history of musical theater in the Philippines.

Alexandra Monchick, Cal State Northridge. Ph.D., Harvard, 2010 (“Silent Opera: The Manifestations of Film in Opera During the Weimar Republic”). Articles in MQ, German Life and Letters, German Studies Review, and JMHP. Hindemith, Spectralism, Music and Post-truth. Former President of Pacific SW Chapter and former CCRI member.

Imani Danielle Mosley, U. of Florida, Ph.D., Duke, 2019 (“British Identity, Social History, and Press Reception of Benjamin Britten’s Postwar Operas”). Articles on Gendered Trauma in BLM, contributions to Musicology Now. Digital humanities. Member of AMS MPD Com and ad hoc Ethics Committee. Editorial Board, Journal of Musicological Research. Area Editor, Grove Music Online.

Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, U. of North Georgia. Ph.D., Yale, 2013 (“Unearthing the Roots of Community Singing: May Garrettson Evans and the Peabody Preparatory Division in Baltimore (1915–1916)”). Everybody Sing!: Community Singing in the American Picture Palace (UGA Press, 2018). Articles in JMHP, Musical Quarterly, American Music. Editor, Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context (UNG Press, 2020). Member of Pedagogy SG, Popular Music SG.

Gayle Murchison, William and Mary. Ph.D. Yale, 1998 (“Nationalism in William Grant Still and Aaron Copland Between the Wars”). The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland’s New American Music (U. of Michigan Press). Articles in Black Music Research Journal, Musical Quarterly. Chapters in Blackness in Opera, Women’s Bands in America. Member of Com. on Com. Former member of Council, Com. on Cultural Diversity, Com. on History of the Society, HMB Fellowship, Slim Award.

Sean Parr, Saint Anselm College. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2010. Book: Vocal Virtuosity: The Origins of the Coloratura Soprano in Nineteenth-Century Opera (OUP, forthcoming April 2021). Articles: Cambridge Opera Journal, 19th-Century Music, Current Musicology. AMS Service: Noah Greenberg Award Committee (2017-19).

Stephanie Schroedter, Prof. Dr. University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw). PhD. Salzburg (“Vom ‘Affect’ zur ‘Action’: Zur Tanzkunst vom ballet de cour bis zum ballet en action”). Habilitation Berlin ("Paris qui danse: Bewegungs- und Klangräume einer Großstadt der Moderne"). Current Co-Chair, AMS Music and Dance SG.

Mary Simonson, Colgate U. Ph.D., UVA, 2007. (“Music, Dance, and Female Creativity in Early Twentieth-Century American Performance”). Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the 20th Century (OUP). Articles in JAMS, JSAM, American Music, Screening the Past, Woman and Music. Music and Dance SG, Music and Media SG.

Ayana Smith, Assoc. Prof. Indiana University. Ph.D.: Yale, 2001. Book: Dreaming with Open Eyes: Opera, Aesthetics, and Perception in Arcadian Rome (UC Press, 2019). Articles: JAMS, Eighteenth-Century Music, Music in Art, and Popular Music. Project director: "Creating Real Change: The Pedagogy of Race and Representation in Music History." Previous AMS Committees: Cultural Diversity; Holmes/D'Accone Fellowship.

Lisa Cooper Vest, Assistant Professor, USC. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2014. Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music (UC Press), pieces in Musicology Today and Lutosławski’s Worlds. Currently writing about sonic representations of horror in twentieth-century media; also engaged with pedagogy and curriculum. Former post-graduate member-at-large, Cold War Music SG.

Jennifer Walker, West Virginia U. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 2019 (“Sounding the Ralliement: Republican Reconfigurations of Catholicism through the Music of Third Republic France, 1880–1905,” Mellon/ACLS winner). Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces: Transforming Catholicism through the Music Third Republic Paris (forthcoming Sept. 2021, AMS Studies/OUP), articles in COJ, Journal of Music Criticism. Current ed. asst. of JAMS, member of AMS Sustainable Mentoring Taskforce.

Sarah F. Williams, U. of South Carolina. Ph.D., Northwestern, 2006 (“The Representations of Early Modern English Witchcraft in Sound and Music”). Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in 17th-Century English Broadside Ballads (Ashgate). Articles in JMR, Journal of 17th-Century Music. Popular music, digital humanities. Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board, Member-at-Large.

Natalie K. Zelensky, Associate Professor, Colby College, Ph.D., Northwestern, 2009. Research Areas: Russia and Russian Diaspora; Music and Migration; Cold War Politics; Memory; Nostalgia; Embodiment Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination (IU Press, 2019). Articles in JSAM, Ethnomusicology Forum. Member of Cold War SG; Former President of NECSEM