CV

Education

Work Experience

Teaching Experience

  • George Mason University
    • 2020-2021: Teaching Assistant in History
      • Western Civilization
    • 2018-2020: Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology
      • Musics of the World
  • Arizona State University
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant: Musicology and Ethnomusicology
      • 2012-2013: Music As Culture
      • 2012: History of Women in Music

Awards and Grants

  • George Mason University
  • 2020-2024: Graduate Fellowship
  • American Musical Instrument Society
    • 2013: Frederick R. Selch Award for Best Student Paper
    • 2012, 2013: Gribbon Award for Student Travel
  • Arizona State University
    • 2012-2013: Graduate Teaching Assistantship
    • 2012, 2013: Musicology Presentation Grant
  • University of Oregon
    • 2009: Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar in Music History
    • 2004-2009: Western Undergraduate Exchange Scholarship
    • 2004-2009: School of Music Scholarship

Invited Lectures

  • Guest Lecture: “Erasure of Women’s Labor in the History of Musical Instruments & Lutherie,” First Annual Women in Lutherie Conference-Online (October 29, 2021)
  • Guest Lecture: “The Women of Fender,” Music History Graduate Seminar, Arizona State University (April 13, 2020)
  • Guest Lecture: “Archival Research Methods,” Graduate Research Methods Course, George Washington University (April 9, 2020)
  • Invited Speaker: “The Auloi of Meroë: Preserving and Interpreting an Ancient Musical Treasure,” Topics in Preservation Series, Library of Congress, Washington DC (April 10, 2018)
  • Panelist: “Crossing Fields, Crossing (Career) Paths: Roundtable on Careers in Ethnomusicology,” Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology meeting, University of Maryland (March 24, 2018)

Selected Public Papers, Presentations, and Posters

  • “From the Sewing Machine to the Stratocaster to the Super-Amp: Refashioning Women’s Labor at Fender,” Amplification and Everyday Life Conference, The Amplification Project, University of Huddersfield, U.K. (2026)
  • “A County of Contrasts” Fairfax County in the Age of Suburbanization,” Black Lives Next Door Symposium, Center for Mason Legacies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. (2026)
  • “Beyond the Wires: Using Spatial History to Explore the Lives of Fender’s Female Workers,” American Historical Association conference, Chicago, IL. (2026)
  • “From the Sewing Machine to the Stratocaster: Rethinking Women’s Work At Fender,” American Musicological Society conference, Minneapolis, MN. (2025)
  • “The Instrumental Women of Fender: Redefining Women’s Labor in a Midcentury Guitar Factory,” Research Out Loud Symposium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. (2025)
  • “Using a Labor History Lens in Instrument Collections: A Case Study ot f the Women Workers at Fender” ICOM-MUSIC: International Committee of Museums and Collections of Instruments and Music conference, Mexico City, Mexico. (2024)
  • “Beyond Nimble Fingers: Using Spatial History to Explore the Lives of Fender’s Female Workers,” Society for American Music conference, Detroit, MI (2024)
  • “Instrumental Women: Using Digital History to Tell Untold Stories about Women Instrument Makers,” ICOM: CIMCIM Committee on Music Museums conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023)
  • “Mapping Slave Auction Sites in Fairfax County,” Keystone Digital History conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2023)
  • “Hearing the Americas: Exploring the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era through Sound,” Poster, American Historical Association conference, Philadelphia, PA (2023).
  • “Instrumental Women: Representing Women Makers in Musical Instrument Collections,” International Committee of Museums conference, Prague, Czech Republic (August 2022)
  • “Instrumental Women of Fender,” 50th Annual American Musical Instrument Society Conference, Calgary, Alberta (May 2022)
  • “Streamlined and Sonic: Industrial Design and the Musical Instruments of John Vassos,” 45th Annual Society for American Music Conference, New Orleans, LA (March 21, 2019)
  • “Fine-tuned Design: Musical Instruments of John Vassos,” American Musical Instrument Society Conference, Bethlehem, PA (May 23, 2018)
  • “A Study of Afghan Rubabs in Museum Collections,” American Musical Instrument Society Conference, Vermillion, SD (May 21, 2016)
  • “A Narrow Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe: Mark Brunswick and the National Committee for Refugee Musicians,” American Musical Instrument Society Conference, Williamsburg, VA (May 31, 2013)
  • “Portraits of Private Music: Case Studies of Music, Musical Instruments and People in Holocaust Concentration Camps,” American Musical Instrument Society Conference, NYC (May 18, 2012)

Public Programs

Professional Affiliations

  • American Musical Instrument Society
    • Board Member, (Elected for two terms: 2018-2024)
  • Society for American Music
  • American Historical Association
  • Society for Ethnomusicology
    • Organology Special Interest Group (Co-chair 2018-2025)
  • International Committee of Museums (ICOM)
    • ICOM-Music subcommittee for Musical Instrument Museums
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