Rosie Ward examines late 18th- and early 19th-century printed song collections, looking at how this book genre participated in the translation of ideas about song and voice across different European contexts.
Una’s Fellow
UC Humanities Consortium Graduate Fellow
Ryan Gourley studies issues of imperialism, political ideology, and musical aesthetics in Northeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. His dissertation critically examines the musical legacy of the Russian colonization of Manchuria, attending to the diverse forms of intercultural exchange that emerged alongside geopolitical conflict in the region.
Professor Norman Jacobson Memorial Fellow
Emily Zazulia is a historian of late-medieval music. Her current project examines popular songs from the late 15th century, focusing particularly on what they can tell us about obscenity, sincerity, and transgression.
Saagar Asnani explores the relationship between musical and linguistic sound in 13th-century music. His dissertation tracks different dialects of medieval French and Occitan across medieval music manuscripts in order to better understand the composition and transmission of individual songs.
Irving and Jean Stone Fellow
