Graduate Students

Max Jefferson

Musicology

Musicologist Max Jefferson (she/hers) centers her research around the agency and representation of Black bodies in American art music of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Her masters thesis, “American Pseudo-Realism: The Subversion of Black Agency in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess,” interrogates the 1935 opening productions of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess not as musical art but as propaganda. She is currently continuing her archival work in pursuit of reparation and equity for marginalized bodies and voices in the dominant historical narrative.

As a singer, Jefferson first...

Augustus Holley

Ethnomusicology

Andrew Harlan

Composition

Andrew Harlan (b. 1995) is a composer, bassist, and sound designer, based in Berkeley, California. His music exists at the intersections of long-form ambient music, experimental club music, dystopian sound design, chamber music, and electroacoustic improvisation. His music has been featured in festivals such as Line Upon Line Winter Composition Festival, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Valencia International Performance Academy, Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice, IRCAM Manifeste Academy, and Wellesley Composers Conference.

Current and previous collaborations...

Anne Greenwood

Ethnomusicology

Anne Greenwood is a PhD student in ethnomusicology, originally from Terrace, British Columbia. She completed a BMus in Orchestral Instrument Performance and an MA in Ethnomusicology at the University of British Columbia before starting the PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. During her time in Vancouver, Anne performed in a wide range of musical ensembles and conducted fieldwork in northeast Thailand.

Anne’s dissertation project will examine the sonic practices associated with nat worship, an animist practice found in Myanmar, in in relation to questions...

Nathan Corder

Composition

Sasha Desberg

Ethnomusicology

Simon Cohen

Musicologist

I am a musicologist whose research focuses on French cultural history in the middle of the nineteenth century. I am interested in how music mediates and how it is mediated—its role in facilitating intimate social networks, colonial dispersion, and assertions of political power.

My previous projects have considered Rossini and salon culture in Second Empire Paris and the relationship between economics and aesthetics in music publishing. In my present ongoing research, I am exploring transmission and circulation of patriotic songs, anthems, and marches in France and abroad under the...