Education

Harvard University, Kenneth S. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, Department of Music
Dissertation: “Botanical Musicalities: Listening with Plant-Human Encounter”

Emory University, College of Arts and Sciences

BA in Music Research and French Studies (2019, summa cum laude)
Honors Thesis: “Singing of Sound and Silence”

Professional

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship (2024-25)
Visiting Scholar at Université Paris-8, Scènes du monde Laboratoire

Grounded Symposium, University of Oslo
Co-Organizer, Presenter (2024)

Musicology Now, American Musicological Society
Curatorial Committee (2022-24)

Harvard Graduate Music Forum (GMF)
Chair (2021 - 22); Conference Co-Chair (2020 - 21) (To Begin Again)

Harvard Faculty for Divestment (HFD)
Research Assistant (2021 – present)

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO)
Writer, Program Notes (2021 - 22) (samples)

Presentations & Publications

Critical Plant Studies and Cultures (Special Issue of Open Cultural Studies)
“Listening in the Virtual Greenhouse: Musics, Sounding, and Online Plantcare”
(July 2024)

American Musicological Society (AMS)
“Glassy Gardens, Shattered Sounds: Tinkering with the Botanical” (Nov. 2023)

International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
“Botanical Blackness: Musico-Sonic Intimacies and Environmental Justice”
(June 2023)

Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture Series, Tufts University
Talk: “Propagating Silence” + Workshop: “Soundscapes of the Small” (Oct. 2022)

Music Studies and the Anthropocene Research Network (MSARN)
“Seeding Silence: Botanical Beings and Posthuman (Un)Soundings” (May 2022)
Conference Report published on Musicology Now (Feb. 2023)

International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US)
“Lost in the World(s): Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Generic Environmentalisms”
(May 2021). Article published on Sounding Board, Jan 2022.

The Graduate Review, Harvard Graduate Student Literary Magazine
“Outcry” (May 2021)