Current Musicology StudentsElizabeth JorgensonSTUDENT PROFILE Elizabeth Jorgenson (they/she) is a first year M.A. student in Musicology from Cleveland, Ohio. They graduated from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music in 2023 with a B.M. in Music History and Literature. During the 2022-2023 school year at Baldwin Wallace, Elizabeth took part in the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (RBI)…
Current Musicology StudentsKangni YangSTUDENT PROFILE Kangni Yang is a first-year M.A. student in Ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music. Her research focuses on ethnic popular music in China, with an emphasis on its interplay between identity, hybridity, and gender issues within the context of globalization. Kangni holds a B.A. in Popular Music Performance from…
Current Musicology StudentsMei XingSTUDENT PROFILE Mei Xing (she/her) is a first-year graduate student in Ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music. She has two cats. She holds a B.A. in Musicology from the Central Conservatory of Music. Her research interests include rave culture, Chinese traditional music, idol culture, and embodiment in music performance.
Current Musicology StudentsKelsy MorrisonSTUDENT PROFILE Kelsy Morrison (she/her) is a first-year Ph.D. student in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. She recently graduated with an M.A. in German Translation from Kent State University, where she also taught undergraduate German courses, and holds B.A. degrees in Music and German (with minors in Classics and Ancient,…
Current Musicology StudentsBabak Kashfi YeganehSTUDENT PROFILE Babak Kashfi Yeganeh is a first year Ph.D. student in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. He holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from Tehran University of Art, and M.A in musicology from University of Victoria in Canada. His master’s thesis is titled “Dave Brubeck and White Middlebrow:…
Current Musicology StudentsSven JosephSTUDENT PROFILE Sven Joseph is a second-year PhD student in the Musicology department at the Eastman School of Music. He earned a B.A. in Music from California State University, Sacramento, where he studied both percussion and piano while covertly developing a musicological identity. In recent years, he has delivered a grant-supported presentation…
Current Musicology StudentsAnthony LaLenaSTUDENT PROFILE Anthony LaLena holds a B.M. from The State University of New York at Fredonia, an M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music, and a DMA from the Eastman School of Music in classical guitar performance with a minor in historical performance practice. His research explores the intersections of modernist music…
Current Musicology StudentsNick AndersonSTUDENT PROFILE Nick Anderson (he/him) holds a B.S. in Astronomy/Physics and a B.A. in Music from the University of Virginia. His research interests center on anime music and its metaleptic role in constructing immersive mediascapes. He focuses on transmedial, virtual, and aspirational engagements of sound in the production of alternate worlds, particularly…
Current Musicology StudentsSheridan ZahlSTUDENT PROFILE Sheridan Zahl (he/him) is a PhD student in historical musicology whose research interests involve the intersections of post-structuralist philosophy, aesthetics, and music. He is particularly intrigued by questions of how music can reveal the connections between materialism and ideality in ways which underline how those domains are interrelated, dependent on…
Current Musicology StudentsEleanor PriceSTUDENT PROFILE Eleanor Price (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. Her dissertation project explores the generic and socio-political boundaries of thirteenth-century motets and is supported by the M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Endowment for research in France and the Susan B. Anthony Institute. She has presented…
