About Me

I am a musicologist who studies the history of the voice, currently teaching at Shaw University. I received my Ph.D. from Duke University in the spring of 2025. My research is on developments in vocal technique and aesthetics in Europe from roughly 1825 to 1850, focusing on the history and invention of the voice as metaphor for the liberal political self, as well as shifting gender norms and expectations around new methods of vocalization in opera singing. Prior to my studies at Duke, I studied music and comparative literature (with a focus in literary translation) at Brown University as an undergraduate.