Current Graduate Students

Music History/Theory. Interests: Post-WWII American concert music generally, but especially the aesthetics and ethics of John Cage and the ensemble works of Steve Reich from the 70s and 80s; the intersections and analysis of speech, language, and music..

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Modern Jewish liturgical song, Holocaust music, shape-note singing, music as a function of time and memory, women’s agency in music, popular adaptation and re-contextualization of units of music.

Composition. Interests: contemporary and electroacoustic music, multimedia art, music for theater, dance and film, interactions between music and literary text, and most things that make sounds.

Composition. Interests: 20th-century music in general, particularly Messiaen and Crumb. Also a saxophonist. Website: http://www.composersforum.org/member_profile.cfm?oid=2101.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: electronic tango, genre in popular music, pop culture, queer entertainment, music in fitness contexts; identity construction, embodiment, gender & sexuality.

Musicology. Interests: 17th-century music, early modern noble identity, social virtues, comparison between the Austrian Habsburgs and the French Bourbons, and cultural exchange between Italian and Austrian cities (Lucca, Venice, Innsbruck, Vienna). Dissertation title: La virtù fatta canora: Staging Early Modern Values at the Court of Leopold I (1658-1705).

Composition. Interests: Electroacoustic Music, Opera, Guitar, Charles Ives.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Lullabies, histories and theories of feminism, politics of history, transmission of trauma, anthropology of affect and senses, history of Armenian women’s movement, late 19th and early 20th century European art music in Istanbul, discourses and practices of modernization in Armenian music, music and cultural politics in Turkey, Armenian folk music repertory, musics of Hamshen/Hemshin.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Music and Pentecostalism, production and consumption of contemporary Christian music (gospel) in Brazil; musical traditions in Sao Paulo; Brazilian guitar; Brazilian popular music.

Composition. Interests: Early 20th-century modernism, Russian music, American experimental music, avant-garde jazz.

Ethnomusicology.

Music Theory and History. Interests: approaches to interwar Latin American art music; politics in music theory; music theory pedagogy; canon formation and musical meaning.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: voice (both audible and metaphoric), North Indian devotional singing, teacher-student relationships in Western vocal pedagogy, sound healing, gender & sexuality, critical theory, experimental ethnography, different ways of knowing. Nadia is co-founder of The Bicycle Opera Project.

Musicology/Ethnomusicology. Interests: Medieval music; the Latin refrain song; repetition in medieval music and music theory; clerical dance, gesture, and ritual; sacred song in ritual context; historical ethnography; music and theology; symbolism in music. Dance history and research; anthropology of dance; dance notation; Native American dance; dance historiography (esp. research of Gertrude P. Kurath).

Music history and theory.
Dissertation: Theological understandings of seventeenth-century Hispanic sacred music (villancicos). "Music about music" as key to understanding music's power to propagate faith through the senses and affects; the political and social ramifications of this power.
Other interests: Piano and organ performance; music's role in Christian liturgical history and theology more broadly, especially in historical and contemporary encounters between "sacred" and "secular"; Mozart, Schubert, Messiaen, Britten, Schnittke.

Music theory. Interests: music analysis, hermeneutics, musical transformational theory.

Ethnomusicology. Avant-garde opera and religion. Founder of Opera Cabal , a Chicago- and New York-based collective of artists on the contemporary music scene. Runs monthly performance salons in Hyde Park.

Musicology. Interests: 15th/16th century sacred music, Spain. Ceremony and civic identity, Seville. Motets, hymns; local devotion. Francisco Guerrero. Local identity and cultural commerce.

Music Theory and History. Interests: Musical instruments and embodied performance (grounded cognition, phenomenology); technology and perception in contemporary music; theoretical instruments/techniques in the history of music theory; musical memory and attention; film and stage musicals that represent the past, especially the American frontier. http://chicago.academia.edu/JonathanDeSouza

Ethnomusicology.  Interests: researching rock nacional and rock chabón in Buenos Aires, exploring the encounters between popular music of Brazil and Portugal—particularly choro from Rio de Janeiro and fado from Lisboa—and studying the interconnectivity of music with political economy, gender, subaltern identities, and transnationalism.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Communication across the African Diaspora, Salvador da Bahia, jazz and gospel, contemporary R&B/neosoul.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Jazz, improvisation, experimentalism, dub, dancehall, and noise.  Urban soundscapes, critical geography, cultural policy and institutions, race, migration, and technology.

Music History and Theory. Interests: 17th- and 19th-century music and culture; Spain and Latin America; convent music (Order of the Immaculate Conception); issues of race and allegory in villancicos; the pipe organ’s history, performance practice, and repertoire; works of Hector Berlioz

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Musics of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Europe, Jewish music; music and collective memory, music and violence, analysis of multimedia, politics of canon formation, critical geography, philosophies of musical experience. Dissertation title: "Music and Monumentality in Jerusalem, 1967-present."

Music History and Theory.  Interests: the musical grotesque in the 19th and 20th centuries; representations of antiquated science in 20th-century music, art and film; early 19th-century piano and chamber music; intersections between music and German literature.

Music Theory. Interests: history of Western music theory; history of Western philosophy; analysis of twentieth-century music, especially art, rock, and jazz; psychology of music.

Music History. Interests: avant-garde movements, experimentation, improvisation, autonomy, failure; technology, electronics, and extended technique; contemporary composition, "Downtown" Music/Jazz, noise/art rock, fluxus, popular/unpopular music.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Music in São Paulo, Brazil; music and urban space; institutions and cultural policy; avant-garde movements; megacities; racial, ethnic, local, and regional identities in the Lusophone World.

Music History/Theory. Interests: video games, media, popular music, perception and cognition, and most everything else.

Musicology. Dissertation topic: “Musical Ideas of Sympathy and Sensibility in the Scottish Enlightenment”. Scots song (Ramsay, Burns, Haydn) and ballad operas, 18th-century instrumental music in the Scottish Lowlands, sensibility and musical thought in the Scottish Enlightenment (Hume, Smith), genre and pastoral, music and the origins of human language (Condillac, Herder), cosmopolitanism and nationalism, philosophy of music, Handel opera seria and the castrato. Coordinator of Early Music Ensemble.

Composition. Music at: http://soundcloud.com/tomasgueglio .

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Black music and popular culture, Sub-Saharan Africa and musics of the African Diaspora, improvisation, and cultural criticism. Theoretical interests include issues of sentiment, ethnicity and identity, post-colonialism, protest, and struggle.

Music History.
Interests: music and film, music and dance, minimalism and postminimalism, intersections of "serious music" and "popular music," music psychology

Music Theory. Dissertation topic: "Analyzing the familiar and strange in listener accounts of Stravinsky's neoclassicism." Other research interests: perception and cognition (particularly, cognition within ensemble performance), theories of musical expectation, mathematical music theories, intertextuality, piano performance, dance

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Music and cultural politics, jazz and popular music in the Francophone world, mediation and ontologies of performance, geography, scenes and subcultures.

Composition. Interests: Gyorgy Ligeti, Stephan von Huene, sound sculpture, toy instruments, film music.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: African American and American musics, black male musicking in urban settings, Sacred Music, Music’s intersection with Homiletics and Oratory, Liturgy, Vocal Pedagogies and Performance, Gender, Men’s Studies, Sexuality, Performance Theory, Groove Theory, multi-site ethnography, New Media & Music, Music & Trance and Musical response to social trauma.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Irish music, literature, and nationalism; historical
ethnomusicology; constructing histories; soundscapes; music in the Middle East;
Japanese music

Musicology. Interests: Late medieval/early renaissance musical culture in northern Italy.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Assam, Northeast India, Hindustani music research and performance, “folk” vs. “classical”, identity politics, neo-Vaishnavism, audio archiving and preservation, intellectual property rights, linguistic anthropology.

Composition. Website: http://www.societyofcomposers.org/user/fusunkoksal.html.

Composition. Interests: Contemporary concert music, multimedia, jazz. Website: http://www.michaellacroix.com.

Composition. Interests: Klangfarbenkomposition, Neo-romanticismic composition, Composition based on Korean traditional materials, Analysis on the 20th-century music, Social meaning of music, History of music theory.

History and Theory. Interests: Music and the postmodern imaginary; rhythm, violence, agency, and communication; historiography.

Music History and Theory. Dissertation title: "Feeling in the Cracks: Affective Binds and Subjectivity in European Composition since 1975." Interests: Late Modernism/avant-garde/popular music; critical theory; aesthetics and philosophy; politics; voice, corporality and technology (Lachenmann, Rihm, Artaud, Serge Gainsbourg)

Composition. Interests: Music of European Avant-Garde, Japanese Noh Theater, Nan-quan chamber music, improvisation and experimental music. Research interests: tonal analysis, the act of reading, Mahler’s orchestral lieder. Performance: String and keyboard player.

Music History and Theory. Interests: 16th and 17th century music, temporality and music.

Music Theory and History

Music Theory. Interests: Music since the mid-twentieth century, the music of Arvo Pärt, music and gesture, music and disability studies, sign language and music, feminist methods in music theory.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: American Jewish and Irish-American popular music (20th and 21st centuries), music education, diaspora studies, critical whiteness studies and Euro-American ethnic cultures, musical transnationalism and American immigration history, applied ethnomusicology, Jewish liturgy and arts policy.

Music Theory and History. Interests: Perception and cognition; aesthetics and philosophy of music; history of theory; origins and development of opera.

Composition. Interests: Nancarrow, Carter, Ives, Ligeti, experimentalism, electroacoustic music, serialism, viola performance, Ayn Rand.  Website: www.andrewmcmanusmusic.com.

Music History and Theory. Interests: 19th and 20th-century music (especially Schubert, Schumann, and Krenek); opera, film music, analysis, piano performance.

Music Theory, jazz pianist. Faculty member, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: North India, music and dance, South Asian visual cultures (specifically photography and film), diasporic traditions, art history, visual anthropology, museology

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Popular song, nostalgia, migration and “multiculturalism” in Germany. Turkish and Arab maqam traditions.

History and Theory. Interests: Italian opera, especially in 18th century England; opera, domestic music-making, and femininity in the British novel; castrati; historical performance practice and vocal pedagogy; gender and sexuality; cultural studies and new historicism; literature of the Italian and English renaissance(s); representation and self-fashioning in early modern Europe.

Theory.Interests: Post-war to present day modernists (Lachenmann, Sciarrino, Xenakis, Saariaho, etc.), voice, sound and noise, timbre and texture.

Area: composition
Interests: art song, 20th century Eastern Europe (composers and culture and history), choral music, extensive pre-compositional work, movement/gesture, why composers choose to re-represent abstract moments and ideas with something equally abstract, listener experience. .

Musicology. Interests: Renaissance, aesthetics, performance studies, transitions.

Music history and theory. Interests: music of the Spanish empire, music and religion, aesthetics, historiography, Mexican rock.

Ethnomusicology and Musicology. Interests: Music in the United States, women’s orchestras, film music, gender studies, music and politics, cultural policy, Irish traditional music in the U.S., Les Six, choral music.

Composition. Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~dschneider/dylan.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Appalachian Old Time music; American 'folk' traditions; Haiti; issues of race in ethnographic representation; 1960s popular music culture; string chamber music.

Music History and Theory. Interests: history of theory and analysis, criticism, history of science and technology, subjectivity, hermeneutics, noise.

Music Theory. Interests: music in video games, embodied perception, post-tonal theory, mathematics in music theory, musical informatics and computation.

Music Theory. Interests: late 20th/21st century avant gardes; relationships between composer's and listener's perspectives; form; polyrhythm and rhythmic perception; timbre; phenomenological approaches, aesthetics, and philosophy

Music Theory. Interests: Music of the 20th and 21st centuries, post-tonal music in the United States; transformational theory; music of Elliott Carter; music theory pedagogy.

Music History and Theory. Music and post-war reconstruction in the German Democratic Republic (1945-1989); the expression and aesthetic implications of mourning, commemoration and loss in twentieth-century music.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Ireland, Europe, American folk and vernacular music, transnationalism, music and diaspora, music and poetry, festivalization, applied ethnomusicology.

Composition. Interests: Theory, Elliott Carter’s compositional process, computer music, guitar. Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~takuma.

Composition. Current interests include Eastern European music, Russian literature, the poetry and short stories of Raymond Carver, discourse of motives within a piece, and musical structure. Current favorite composers include Bartók, Messiaen, Szymanowski, Janácek, Scriabin, Ligeti, Rautavaara, Lutoslawski and Shostakovich.

Composition. Interests: Orchestral, chamber, electro-acoustic and intercultural music. Favorite composers: Ligeti, Xenakis, Radulescu, Feldman, Grisey, Vivier, Kurtag. Other: Borges, Calvino, Perec, Bolaño; Xul Solar, Siqueiros, Miro; African Coffee, Martial Art/Action Movies, Sports videogames, Soccer.

Music History and Theory. Interests: 18th- and 19th-century Italian and French opera; compositional process, sketch studies, musical analysis; the reception of Italian music in Russia; Russian music and culture; the relationship between composers and publishers (in particular, Verdi and Giulio Ricordi).

Music History. Interests: Medieval music theory, medieval women in music, paleography; film music.

Music History and Theory. Interests: Globalization of opera; opera in Latin America; cultural transfer; opera and fantasy/ magical realism; music and literature; post-colonial studies.

Music History & Theory. Main interests: Italian opera of the 18th and 19th centuries; musical life in 19th-century Vienna and the relationship between musical activity and political power during the Restoration; performance practice of instrumental and vocal music of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Interests: Music of the 19th to 21st century. Aesthetics of film and opera. Music and literature, melodrama, criticism, philosophy.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: interstices of religion and culture in Afro-Brazilian Candomble, as well as indigenous shamanic traditions in the Andean highlands.

Music History and Theory. Interests: Stravinsky, Russian/Soviet music and culture, Musical metaphor, Theory of games, History of music theory, 19th- and 20th-century music, Schenker, Transformation and neo-Riemannian theory.

Ethnomusicology. Interests: Ethnomusicologies of Western art-style music. Musicologies outside the U.S. (especially Central/Eastern Europe and Africa). Sub-Saharan Africa, post-colonialisms. Dissertation on Western art-style music in Uganda.

Musical migrations and globalization theory.  Identity, Diaspora, postcolonial studies.  Jewish/Latin American musics.

Musicology and Ethnomusicology. Interests: Improvisation, African-American music, performance practice and recorded music, music education, historiography, disciplinary history.

Music History and Theory. Interests: American art music prior to WWI; black music historiography; speech surrogacy; the life and music of J.N. Hummel.