Musicology Graduate Students - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Current Graduate Students

Morgan Bates
Musicology - Research Focus: the performance realm of “drag vocality” across musical genres
Xavier Brown
Musicology - Research Focus: queer and trans studies, Jewish studies, and Schoenberg studies
Kerry Brunson
Musicology – Research Focus: American orchestras, musical hierarchies, and the cultural and political aspects of musical communities
Sarah Davachi
Musicology – Research Focus: Influence of musical instruments on the creation and reception of music
Luka Douridas
Musicology - Research Focus: audodidactism, temporal difference in music, secular religiosity, and the “new age” aesthetic
Kristen Martinez
Musicology – Research Focus: Subcultures, Media, and Emo Music in Southern California
Danielle Stein
Musicology – Research Focus: Development of weaponized music and sonic environments over the 20th and 21st centuries

Recent Ph.D.s

James Ace
Musicology – Research Focus: 19th century American musical entertainment in resonance with contemporary cultural and scientific formations of race, sex, and gender
Matthew Blackmar
Assistant Professor of Music, Indiana University
Wade Dean
Musicology – Research Focus: The interplay between Black vernacular music, popular and socio-political culture
Erin Fitzpatrick
Musicology – Research Focus: Materiality and performance practice in post-1980 punk, indie and art rock
Alex Hallenbeck
Musicology – Research Focus: Ontological issues in American popular music