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Education

• 2022–present Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology — Duke University Certificate in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies. Dissertation (working title): The Afterlives of the Blues: Feminist Historiography and American Vaudeville Blues.
• 2022–2024 M.A. in Musicology — Duke University
• 2018–2021 B.A. in Music — Colorado State University Certificates in Violoncello Pedagogy and French. Undergraduate thesis: An Intersectional and Bourdieusian Labor Analysis of Bessie Smith v. Columbia Records, Inc.

Publications

• Nov 2025 Review of Blues on Stage, by John L. Clark Jr. Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association Quarterly. Duke Scholars →
• Mar 2023 Review of The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association Quarterly. Duke Scholars →

Professional experience

• 2026 Fellow (Berger-Carter-Berger) — Institute for Jazz Studies In-residence fellow at the Institute for Jazz Studies archives at Rutgers.
• 2025–present Assistant Editor — Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture Line and style editing for quarterly issues.
• 2025–present President — Music Graduate Student Association, Duke University Graduate student body representative across musicology, ethnomusicology, and composition. Coordinates bi-semester meetings and visiting lecturers, liaises with university administration, and oversees edits to the MGSA constitution and bylaws.
• 2023–2025 Project Mentor and Manager — Franklin Humanities Institute Directed team research and student engagement on feminist archival practice around Rosetta Reitz and the Rosetta Records LPs (1970–1985). Mentored undergraduate research and international conference presentations.
• 2022–2023 Graduate Fellow — Humanities Unbounded, Duke University Seminar discussions and event planning on Black musical creation, performance, and discourse in the twenty-first century.
• 2021–2022 Editor — Open Access Musicology Reviewed and edited undergraduate and graduate musicological papers.
• 2020–2021 Communications Director — C’elle Initiative: Empowering Women Cellists Designed and co-founded the nonprofit initiative; coordinated international communications.
• 2018–2021 Executive Assistant — International Cello Institute Directed seasonal programming and managed the transition to a virtual format.

Conference presentations

• Mar 2026 “Blues is a Woman: Situating feminist desire in ‘fantasy’ concerts” Society for American Music Conference, Richmond, VA.
• Nov 2025 “Blues is a Woman: Situating feminist desire in feminist ‘fantasy’ concerts” American Musicological Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
• Jan 2025 “Archives and Creative Process” International Care Ethics Research Consortium, Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Nov 2022 “Experimenting Alongside Rameau in Génération Harmonique” Music Scholars National Conference, Society of Music Theory, New Orleans, LA.
• Apr 2021 “An Intersectional Analysis of Women Composers and Labor” Rocky Mountain Chapter, American Musicological Society.

Teaching

• 2023–present Teaching Assistant — Duke University Department of Music Studio Pop; Music History I: Medieval and Renaissance; Music History III: Beethoven–WWI; Meet the Beatles and the 1960s; Motown and Soul.
• 2020–present Cello Pedagogy Instructor Certified in private and group instruction in the Suzuki, Mantel, and Mooney methods.
• 2018–2019 Instructor — Middle School Outreach Ensemble Conductor, instructor, and sectional director for the Colorado State–sponsored outreach ensemble serving local middle school orchestras.

Research interests

References

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