About

Samuel Teeple is a musicologist whose research focuses on the relationship between music and Germanness at the turn of the nineteenth century, with special attention to questions of race, gender, and class. As a PhD candidate in historical musicology at the Graduate Center, he’s completing a dissertation entitled “Jewish Berlin and the Musical Formation of Germanness, Berlin 1780 – 1830.” Prior to arriving at CUNY, Teeple earned two Master’s degrees in music history and tuba performance at Bowling Green State University and a Bachelor’s degree in tuba performance at Eastern Michigan University. In recent years, he’s taught courses in music appreciation, music research, and writing at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. Currently, he serves as a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Lehman College, where he works with faculty to incorporate abolitionist and anti-racist approaches in their teaching. Outside of the classroom, he’s a founding development team member for the GC Music Teaching Hub, a repository of open educational resources developed by graduate student instructors within CUNY music classrooms.