Publications
Forthcoming (Accepted):
Curating Jewish Heritage Space on TikTok with Montana Tucker's TikTok Docu-series, 'How to Never Forget'"
Pending Review:
(Book Project) Sounding Trauma, Mediating Memory: Holocaust Economy and the Politics of Sound.
"Sonic Mechanisms of Hate on Social Media." Music and Politics.
“Underscoring Virality: TikTok, Sonic Wallpaper, and Antisemitic Enabling.” American Music.
2025:
(Roundtable, key organizer) “Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis,” with Seth Brodsky (UChicago); Michael Gallope (UMinnesota); Jenny Johnson (UCLA); Alisha Jones (UCambridge); Luis-Manuel Garcia-Mispireta (UBirmingham); and Shayna Silverstein (NorthwesternU), Joint Metting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, Minneapolis, MN, 2025.
“Sonic Antisemitism: Auditory Mechanism of Hate on Social Media,” Music, Sound, and Antisemitism Symposium, Center for Jewish History—New York City, New York May 2025.
(Invited Keynote) “Musik in Ausstellungen zum Holocaust,” Einladung zum Workshop „Räume hören: Handreichungen und Hörexperimente zur Erinnerungskultur,“ Wolfenbüttel, Germany, May 2025.
(Invited Lecture)“Resonance and Remembrance: The Violin in Holocaust Cinema,” UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles, CA February 25, 2025.
2024:
"Polarization and Performative Activism: Identity Politics in Post-October 7th Discourse on Israel-Palestine on Social Media," Association for Jewish Studies," International-Online, December 2024
“Resonant Legacies, Dissonant Translations: A Comparative Ethnographic Analysis of Sonic Curation in Holocaust and US Slave Memorial Sites,” American Musicological Society, Chicago, IL, November 2024
2023:
Invited Educator: Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University's Regional Institute, "Witness: Mediating Holocaust Testimony in the Arts" (April 2024; Music & the Holocaust Educator)
Invited Panelist: “Music and Antisemitism,” American Musicological Society, Denver, CO, November 2023
“Underscoring Virality: TikTok, Music, and Antisemitic Enabling,” Society for American Music, Minneapolis, MN
Invited Speaker: “Sounding Memory, Mediating Trauma: Holocaust Economy and the Politics of Sound,” Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine & Bowdoin College, Portland, ME
2022:
“Holocaust Ventriloquism: Virtual Spectacles or Living Performance?,” Joint Meeting of the Society for Music Theory-American Musicological Society-Society for Ethnomusicology, New Orleans, LA
“Witnessing Witnessing: Holocaust Holograms and the Legacy of Lived Testimony,” Lessons and Legacies XVI, Ottawa, Canada
Invited Speaker: Convention der Österreich-Zentren, Leiden, Netherlands
2021:
“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
Invited Seminar: “Holocaust Tourism Revisited: Holocaust Memorial Culture between Education, Tourism, and Commemoration,” German Studies Association 46th Annual Conference, Indianapolis,
Invited Seminar: “Humor and Violence: Opera and Terezin,” Anne Tannenbaum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2020:
Invited Speaker: “Echoes of Memory: An Evening of Remembrance,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Montana State University, and Bozeman Public Library “Americans and the Holocaust” Traveling Exhibit, Bozeman, MT (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Invited Speaker: “Practical Academia: Becoming a Musicologist” Montana State University Music Major Seminar, Bozeman, MT
2019:
“Treblinka as Virtual Soundscape: AudioTrip and Polish Holocaust Memory,” American Musicological Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA
“Sound Ethics?: Treblinka, Ceremonial Silence, and AudioTrip,” Yad Vashem International Workshop—“Holocaust Sources: Truth, Interpretation, and (Mis)Use in the Digital Era,” Jerusalem, Israel
“Guiding or Obscuring?: Questioning the Sonic Infrastructure of Treblinka’s Audio Guide,”Special Session of Lessons and Legacies Conference, Munich, Germany
Invited Speaker: “Reflections on Poland,” Jews & Poles: Entangled Lives—University of Minnesota Duluth Summer Course, Duluth, MN, May 2019
2018:
“Sounding Narratives, Varying ‘Voices’: Affective Sonic Media in Jewish Museum Holocaust
Representations,” USA European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE
“Musical Witnessing: George Takei’s Japanese Internment Camp Musical,” Literature & Film Association Conference: Politics, Ethics, and Adaptations, Missoula, MT
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