About

By day, I am a Business Analyst and Product Research Coordinator for a Fortune 500 company. In my free time, I am a music historian and scholar available to give pre-concert talks, write program notes, or guest lecture in your classes. I am also a harpsichordist looking for new performance opportunities.

In 2020, I published a co-edited essay collection (with Dr. Matthew Gardner) called Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press.) In 2021, I released my monograph entitled The Power of Pastiche: Musical Miscellany and the Creation of Cultural Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century London (Clemson University Press). This latter study considers how different types of musical miscellany (including early public concerts, pasticcio operas, published songbooks, compositional styles, and music criticism) helped the British shape their cultural and musical tastes as London grew into a cosmopolitan capital in the early eighteenth century.

I have a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of Michigan (2013) and a BA in Music from Vassar College (2007). My research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the American Musicological Society, the American Handel Society, the Handel Institute, and the University of Missouri Research Board, among others. I have also published widely, with articles in the Eighteenth-Century Music, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, The Journal of Musicological Research, the A-R Online Anthology, American Handel Society Newsletter, Händel-Jahrbuch, and Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. My article in Early Modern Women, “Equally Charming, Equally Too Great: Female Rivalry, Politics, and Opera in Eighteenth-Century London,” won the 2018 Ruth Solie Prize for an Outstanding Article on British Music from the North American British Music Studies Association. From 2018 to 2021, I was Associate Editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and I am also formerly the editor for the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter (2015–­18). Currently, I serve as the Vice President for the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. The University of Missouri-Kansas City recognized me in 2020, when I won the UMKC Trustee’s Faculty Scholar Award for demonstrating exceptional scholarly achievements; and in 2023, when I was awarded the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award.

I taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory from 2015 - 2023 where I achieved promotion & tenure in 2021; the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati from 2014-2015; and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance from 2013-2014.