Kirsten Paige (PhD in Music History & Literature, 2018) has been awarded a 2025-26 Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, the research institute and museum in Washington, D.C. administered by Harvard University, which specializes in the study of Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden & Landscape Studies. While in residence at Dumbarton Oaks, Paige will work on her new project, "Keyboard Botany: Climate, Empire, and the Tropical Piano in Southeast Asia."
Paige's research examines nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual and political histories of music, race, and the environment. Her essays have appeared in journals including 19th-Century Music, the Cambridge Opera Journal, The Opera Quarterly, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Sound Studies, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
Paige's book project, “Richard Wagner’s Political Ecology,” is forthcoming in 2026 with the University of Chicago Press. She currently serves on the musicology faculty of North Carolina State University.