Musicology
Ethnomusicology

Alan Anbari, Musicology
Dissertation: "Wagner's Historicism, 'Polyphonic Symphony' and 'Web of Principal Themes'"
Primary Advisor: Michael Tusa
Additional Interests: History of Music Theory, early music, early opera
Email: aanbari@aol.com

Estevan César Azcona, Ethnomusicology
Doctoral Portfolio, Mexican American Studies
Dissertation: "Movements in Chicano Music: Performing Culture, Performing Politics, 1965-1979"
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Email: azcona@mail.utexas.edu

Gary Beckman, Musicology
Dissertation: "The Sacred Lute: Intabulated Chorales for Lute from Luther's Age to the beginnings of Pietism"
Primary Advisor: Andrew Dell’Antonio
Additional Interests: early music movement in the 19th & 20th centuries, professional development in the arts, entrepreneurship in music curricula
Email: archlute@mail.utexas.edu

Ricardo Bernardes, Musicology
Research area: Eighteenth-century Brazilian and Portuguese Music
Primary Advisor: Andrew Dell’Antonio
Additional Interests: early music, musicology in Latin America, Italian and Portuguese 18th century music
Email:bernardesricardo@mail.utexas.edu

Mark Camann, Musicology
Dissertation: "David Guion's Vision for a Musical Americana."
Research Area: Twentieth-century music
Primary Advisor: Elliot Antokoletz
Additional Interests: American music, Early music, ethnomusicology, Hungarian folk music
University Affiliation: Instructor, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio
Email: mcamann@mail.utexas.edu

Jennifer Chu, Musicology
Research Area: 20th-century American, gender studies
Primary Advisor: Andrew Dell’Antonio
Additional Interests: American and Asian popular music, reception history
Email: jcchu@mail.utexas.edu

Tristán del Canto, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Brazil/Latin America/Morocco
Primary Advisor: Robin Moore
Additional Interests: race, altered states of consciousness and folklore
Email: tristandelcanto@gmail.com

Elisa Ferrari, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Latin America/USA
Primary Advisor: Joshua Tucker
Additional Interests: popular music and social change, experimental, indie and new musics
Email: elisaferrariguitar@yahoo.com

Sonia Gaind, Ethnomusicology
Research area: South Asia—Hindustani classical and Sufi music
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Additional Interests: Music in diaspora; gender studies; music and mysticism
Email: soniagaind@mail.utexas.edu

Jeffrey Grimes, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: North Indian Classical Music
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Additional Interests: Asian Art Musics, Performance Practice
Email: jgrimes@mail.utexas.edu

William Hannah, Musicology
Research Area: Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Narrative & Information theory
Primary Advisor: Andrew Dell’Antonio
Additional Interests: Music information retrieval, Music librarianship
Email: wph@mail.utexas.edu

Ajay Kalra, Ethnomusicology
Dissertation: "Wide Open Studio Spaces: The Role of Technology in the Construction of the Spatial Codes of Pastoral Genres in Contemporary American Popular Music."
Research Area: Music of Appalachia and the American South, 1970s studio music, rock music.
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Additional Interests: Traditional and popular music of the British Isles, USA, and Canada, Texas Music, Counterculture's music, Indian folk and popular music
E-mail: kalraajay@hotmail.com

Ryan Kangas, Musicology
Research Area: German symphonic tradition (Brahms through Mahler)
Primary Advisor: K.M. Knittel
Additional Interests: Text/music relations (Machaut through Josquin)
Email: rrkangas@mail.utexas.edu

Krista Kateneva, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Brazilian black movement and music
Primary Advisor: Robin Moore
Additional Interests: Brazilian northeast, Haiti
Email: kateneva@mail.utexas.edu

Ji Young Kim, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Korean folk music.
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Additional Interests: Korean ritual, religion & musical performance, Asian American music
Email: joy10090403@hotmail.com

Beth LaBate, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Peruvian Andes, urban Cusco
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Additional Interests: Indigenismo, tourism & modernization
Email: elabate@mail.utexas.edu

Sidra Lawrence, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: West African traditional drumming and xylophone music
Primary Advisor: Veit Erlmann
Additional Interests: gender, music of trancing rituals, identity construction
Email: sidralawrence@gmail.com

Michael J. Malone, Musicology
Dissertation: "Symbols of Transformation: Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Organicism in Early Twentieth-Century Music"
Research Area: Bartók, and Schoenberg (motivic transformation, organicism, post-tonal hierarchies, category theory, conceptual models)
Primary Advisor: Elliott Antokoletz
Additional Interests: Medieval monophonic song, intertextual allusion, philosophy of meaning, orchestral music, conducting
Email: mjmalone@mail.utexas.edu

Ryan McCormack, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: European jazz, film music
Primary Advisor: Veit Erlmann
Additional Interests: Culturally-created auditory space in Japanese Animation
Email: egonics@mail.utexas.edu

Kathryn Metz, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Folk & popular music in Amazonian Peru
Primary Advisor: Robin Moore
Additional Interests: Identity, modernity, Bluegrass, Indie rock, feminist ethnography, Bali
Email: kametz@mail.utexas.edu

Jonny Meyers, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: USA/Caribbean
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Additional Interests: music performance, lyric writing & composition.
Email: jonnymeyers73@yahoo.com
Personal Webpage: thestingers

Melanie Morgan, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Latin Pop Radio and Recording Industry in the U.S.
Primary Advisor: Robin Moore
Additional Interests: Immigration, Globalization & Transnationalism,"World Music"
Email: melaniejmorgan@yahoo.com

Mathayo Bernard Ndomondo, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Music, Gender and HIV/AIDS
Primary Advisor: Veit Erlmann
Additional Interests: African music, Music and migration, Music and Healing, Music and Politics, Music for Children and Youth, Performing arts and empowerment of women and children
Email: mathayondomondo@yahoo.com

Michael O’Brien, Ethnomusicology
Dissertation: "Discipline, Creativity, and Tradition: Developing a Formal Educational System in Popular Music in Argentina."
Research area: institutional pedagogy of non-canonic musics
Primary Advisor: Robin Moore
Additional interests: popular music of Latin America, tango, improvisation, ethnography of education, composition
Email: msobrien@mail.utexas.edu

Justin Patch, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: American popular music and politics in Austin
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Additional Interests: Takemitsu, John Zorn, black hard rock
Email: panditpatch@yahoo.com

Emily Pinkerton, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Chilean popular music
Primary Advisor: Stephen Slawek
Additional Interests: Old time fiddle music
Email: ejpinky@yahoo.com

April Prince, Musicology
Research Area: Clara Schumann, 19th-century Germany, reception history, iconography, feminist theory
Primary Advisor: K.M. Knittel
Additional Interests: Early 20th-century American music
Email: aprince@mail.utexas.edu

Dennis M. Rathnaw, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: African popular music & media studies
Primary Advisor: Veit Erlmann
University Affiliation: University of Yaoundé (Cameroon)
Email: iya-ilu@mail.utexas.edu

Ana Sánchez-Rojo, Musicology
Research Area: Colonial music in New Spain/Spain, archival manuscripts
Primary Advisor: Lorenzo Candelaria
Additional Interests: music and text, vocal music, Aesthetics
Email: ana.sanchezrojo@mail.utexas.edu

Kimberly Schafer, Musicology
Research Area: Auditory Culture
Primary Advisor: Phil Ford
Additional Interests: 20th century American modernism, carillon
Email: schaferk@mail.utexas.edu

Jennifer Smull, Musicology
Dissertation: "Mid-West Modernism: New Music in Chicago, 1910-1940"
Research Area: American modernism
Primary Advisor: Andrew Dell’Antonio
Additional Interests: American popular music, gender studies
Email: jsmull@mail.utexas.edu

Michael Stephenson, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Latin America / Jazz / Salsa
Primary Advisor: Robin Moore
Additional Interests: Power and Resistance, Identity, Multimedia, Conjunto
Email: mstephenson@mail.utexas.edu

Katherine L. Turner, Musicology
Dissertation: "The Musical Culture of La Concezione: Devotion, Politics and Nobility in Post-Tridentine Florence"
Research Area: Music & women in the early modern era
Primary Advisor: Andrew Dell’Antonio
Additional Interests: feminist theory, gender/identity studies, pedagogy
Email: KLTurner@mail.utexas.edu

Bryan Walls, Ethnomusicology
Research Area: Afro-Caribbean studies
Primary Advisor: Robin Moore
Additional Interests: Urban popular music
Email: walls1001@hotmail.com

Eliot Winder, Musicology
Research Area: American popular music, esp. jazz and hip-hop
Primary Advisor: Phil Ford
E-Mail: eliotw@mail.utexas.edu