Digital History Projects
Founder and Co-Director: Instrumental Women highlights the contributions of women to the histories of musical instrument manufacturing, past and present.
Contributor and Project Associate: Hearing the Americas explores the first decades of recorded music, revealing how ideas about genre, race, and nation were formed in the transnational circulation of people and records. We focus on the United States and Latin America, whose vibrant musical interactions originated in the African diaspora and were reactivated in new ways by the advent of the record industry.
Exhibit Curation
Curator and Researcher: A County of Contrasts: Fairfax County in the Age of Suburbanization
Curator: Jazz at Georgetown
Sept. 19, 2018 – May 1, 2019
Special Collections @ Georgetown University Library
Contributing Curator: The Creative Process: Working Drafts
Sept. 19, 2018 – May 1, 2019
Special Collections @ Georgetown University Library
Publications
Article: “Musical Instrument Museums and Issues of Provenance Research”
CIMCIM Bulletin 2022
Invited Blog: Streamlined and Sonic: Harmonicas and Accordions Designed by John Vassos
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Invited Blog: The Sarangi: A Case Study In Colonialist Texts
American Musical Instrument Society
Master’s Thesis: The Refugee Musician Is Now a Part of Us:
Musical Exiles and Mark Brunswick’s National Committee for Refugee Musicians (1938-1943)
Arizona State University
Exhibit Reviews
Review: Olympic-sized ambitions at the V&A East Storehouse
Bulletin: International Council of Museums-Music Committee
September 2026
Review: Musical Objects and Stories at Phoenix’s Heard Museum
Newsletter: American Musical Instrument Society
Vol. 47, No. 2 (Summer 2018)
