Academic Appointments:

2024-26 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California-Los Angeles Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the Initiative to Study Hate             
2023-24 Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music 
2022-23 Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Bowdoin College 
2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust Studies, American University and the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
Spring 2022 Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, SUNY-Albany

Education: 

2021 Ph.D.,Musicology/Ethnomusicology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. 
2018 M.A.,  Musicology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
2016 M.A., Religious Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder. Graduate Certificate: Jewish Studies 
2013 B.A., B.A. Music/B.A. Religious Studies, Montana State University-Bozeman

Areas of Expertise: 

Holocaust Studies; Jewish Studies; African American Social Justice; Late 19th-21st Century Music; American Studies; Popular Music & Social Media; Religious Studies; Sound Studies; Music & Politics; Film Music; Listening Technologies

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks: 

Invited Teaching Faculty, “Music and the Holocaust”: “Witness: Mediating Holocaust Testimony in the Arts,” Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern Regional Institute, Seattle, WA, April   17-19, 2024. 
Invited Speaker: “Antisemitism, Music, and Music Studies: Views from   the Field,” Jewish Studies and Music Study Group,American Musicological Society, December, CO, November 2023. 
Invited Speaker: “Teaching the Holocaust through Pop Culture,”   United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Discussions in Contemporary Holocaust Education, July 2023. 
“Underscoring Virality: TikTok, Music, and Antisemitic Enabling,” Society   for American Music, Minneapolis, MN, March   2023.
Invited Speaker: “Sounding Memory, Mediating Trauma: Holocaust   Economy and the Politics of Sound,” Jewish   Community Alliance of Southern Maine and Bowdoin College, Portland, ME, March 2023. 
“Holocaust Ventriloquism: Virtual Spectacles or Living Performance?,” Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Music Theory, New Orleans, LA, November   2022.
“Witnessing Witnessing: Holocaust Holograms and the Legacy of Lived   Testimony,” Lessons and Legacies XVI, Ottawa,   Canada, November 2022. 
Invited Speaker: Convention on contemporary views in Austrian   Studies, der Österreich-Zentren, Leiden, Netherlands, June   2022. 
“The Sonic Sensorium of Concentration Camp ‘Babel’: Reception and   Description of Language in Holocaust Testimonies   and Written Memoirs,” Regional Interim Meeting of Lessons and Legacies, Knoxville, TN, October 2021. 
Invited Seminar: “Holocaust Tourism Revisited: Holocaust Memorial   Culture between Education, Tourism, and Commemoration,” German Studies Association 46th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN,   October 2021. 
Invited Seminar: Humor and Violence: Opera and Terezin,” Anne   Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies, University of   Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 2021. 
Invited Speaker: “Echoes of Memory: An Evening of Remembrance,”   United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Montana   State University, and 
      Bozeman Public Library as part of the “Americans and the   Holocaust,” Traveling Exhibit, Bozeman, MT, April 2020 (cancelled due to 
      COVID-19).   
“Sound Ethics?: Treblinka, Ceremonial Silence, and AudioTrip,” Yad Vashem   International Workshop—“Holocaust Sources:   Truth, 
      Interpretation, and (Mis)Use in the Digital Era,” Jerusalem, Israel, November 2019. 
“Guiding or Obscuring?: Questioning the Sonic Infrastructure of   Treblinka’s Audio Guide,” Special Session of Lessons and   Legacies, 
      Munich, Germany, November 2019. 
“Treblinka as Virtual Soundscape: AudioTrip and Polish Holocaust Memory,”   American Musicological Society, Boston, MA,   November 2019. 
Invited Speaker: “Reflections on Poland,” Jews & Poles:   Entangled Lives—University of Minnesota Duluth Summer Course,   Duluth, MN, May 
       2019. 
“Sounding Narratives, Varying ‘Voices,’ Affective Sonic Media in Jewish   Museum Holocaust Representations,” USA European   Studies 
      Conference, Omaha, NE, October 2018. 
“Musical Witnessing: George Takei’s Japanese Internment Camp Musical,”   Literature and Film Association   Conference—Politics, Ethics, and 
      Adaptations, Missoula, MT, October 2017. 
“Explaining the Misunderstood: The Incomprehensibility of Hanns Eisler’s Night   and Fog Film Score,” NYU Steinhardt   Music and Moving 
      Images Annual Conference, New York City, NY, May 2016.

Grants, Fellowships, & Awards:

External—National & International 

2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Berlin Program for Advanced German & European Studies, Free Universität Berlin (declined) 
2021-22 First Alternate, Yale Institute for Sacred Music Postdoctoral Fellowship 
2020 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship (Polish) 
2019 Graduate Research Fellow, Visiting Scholar Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (3-month residency)
2019 Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University Fellow, 24th Annual Institute on the Holocaust & Jewish Civilization 
2019 Jewish Music as Research Workshop Fellow, Europäisches Zentrum für Jüdische Musik, Hildesheim, Germany
2018 Auschwitz Jewish Center Graduate Fellow, Auschwitz Jewish Center, NYC/Oświęim, Poland 
2016 Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace, Middlebury Summer German Language School, Middlebury College

Internal—University 

2023 Bowdoin Excellence in Teaching Award
2020-21 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2020 Hella Mears Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Center for German & European Studies, University of Minnesota
2020 Lillian and Leo Gross Scholarship in Jewish Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota
2019-20 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2019 Jerome L. Joss Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota 
2018 Professor Riv-Ellen Prell Research in the Study of Jewish Cultures Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota
2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Literature/Film Association Conference: Politics, Ethics, Adaptations 
2017 Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & School of Music, University of Minnesota 
2016 Barry and Sue Baer Graduate Fellowship, Program in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado
2016 Center for Western Civilization Language Study Grant, University of Colorado 
2015 Goldberger Research Fellowship, Program in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado 
2013 Outstanding Performance Award, Class of 2013, Montana State University 
2013 Service Award, Department of History, Religion, and Philosophy, Montana State University