About
I’m a librarian, archivist, and musicologist interested in using digital tools to share information across the humanities. Education
M.L.I.S., University of Maryland, College Park 2022
Emphasis on Academic Libraries and Digital Humanities
Ph.D. Musicology, University of Maryland, College Park 2008
Dissertation: “The Music of Manuel M. Ponce, Julián Carrillo, and Carlos Chávez in the
U.S., 1925-1932”
M.A. Musicology, University of Maryland, College Park 2003
Thesis: “Creating a Legacy: William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony, Its Composer,
and Its Critics”
B.A. English and Music, cum laude, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg 1999 Publications
“Selections from ‘Whirling around Mexico’,” a critical micro-edition,
Scholarly Editing, Spring
2022.
“Carlos Chávez in Mabel Dodge Luhan’s ‘Whirling Around Mexico’,”
Latin American Music Review (Fall 2021).
“Identity and the Neoclassical Ideal in Martha Graham’s and Carlos Chávez’s
Dark Meadow,”
20th Century Music (January 2021).
Review: “Musical Passage: Voyage to Jamaica,”
http://www.musicalpassage.org in
American Archivist Reviews Portal (Fall 2019).
Review: Norie Guthrie and Scott Carlson, eds.
Music Preservation and Archiving Today. (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) in
The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, January 2019.
Review: Alejandro L. Madrid,
Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 (Oxford, 2015) in
The Journal of the American Musicological Society, January 2017.
Review: Carol Hess,
Representing the Good Neighbor (Oxford, 2013) in
transposition: musique et sciences sociales, 2016.
“Carrillo and
Sonido Trece in New York” in “Redes, circuitos y círculos artísticos e intelectuales México-USA/USA-México,”
a special issue of
La Habana Elegante. Spring 2014.
“Manuel M. Ponce’s
canciones in New York: Mexican Musical Identity and the Mexico Vogue,” in
Music, Longing, and Belonging edited by Magdalena Waligórska. Cambridge Scholars, 2013.
“The Reception of Carlos Chávez’s
Horsepower: A Pan-American Communication Failure,”
American Music (Summer 2012) 157-193.
Projects
“Edward MacDowell: An American Composer’s Legacy,” co-curator of exhibit, (forthcoming
Fall 2022).
“Not a Quiet Place: Exploring Special Collections in Performing Arts at the University of
Maryland,”
scripted podcast pilot, Spring 2021.
“Merle Evans and Circus Music,” invited presentation for the San Jose State University SLA
Student Chapter, Spring 2021.
“After Sousa: The Frank Simon papers at University of Maryland” in
Performance!, Newsletter of the SAA Performing Arts Section, Spring 2021.
Archives creation advisory group for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (Spring 2021).
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities website redesign advisory group, Fall 2020.
Curator, “ABA Oral Histories 1965,”
online digital exhibit, Fall 2018.
Co-creator, “Make Music DMV,” beta-version website and database connecting music amateurs and ensembles, Fall 2018.
Curator, Lowens Room Exhibit, “Why am I Called Upon to Speak Here Today?”: Dorothy Rudd Moore’s opera,
Frederick Douglass, Fall 2018- Present.
“John O’Reilly Papers at Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland” in
Performance!, Newsletter of the SAA Performing Arts Section. Summer 2018.
“Chávez,
Modern Music, and the New York Scene,” in
Carlos Chávez and His World, edited by Walter Clark and Leonora Saavedra. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Program notes to “New York, New York” and “Musical Culture of the Hemisphere” programs for
Carlos Chávez and His World, Bard Summerscape. Summer 2015.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
Making “Selections from ‘Whirling around Mexico’,” a critical micro-edition, Ibero-American Music Lightning Lounge, American Musicological Society National Meeting, New Orleans, 2022. Memberships
American Musicological Society
Music Library Association
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
