Selected Presentations & Appearances
Soul Gone Home: The Unfinished Chamber Opera of Ulysses Kay and Langston Hughes
· March 2025
Other
Society for American Music, annual meeting,
Tacoma, WA
"I Owe it to My Race": Racial Negotiation in the Early Works of Ulysses Kay
· November 2024
Other
American Musicological Society, annual meeting,
Chicago, IL
Constructing the "Golden Dream": Music and American History at Walt Disney World
· June 2024
Other
All Ears: Music and Sound in and Beyond Disney Theme Parks,
University of Central Florida, Orlando
Expanding the Sound of Black Classical Music: Ulysses Kay and Danse Calinda
- Duke University Music Department Colloquium
· April 2024
Other
Terminally Climactic Form and the Evocation of the Afterlife in the Music of Thrice
· March 2023
Other
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music,
Duke University
Received the student paper prize at the conference.
A Sonic Counter-Monument: Gerhard Stäbler's Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco
- Graduate Students in Music Conference
· April 2022
Other
City University of New York,
Virtual
"The Dialectic of Stringency and Freedom": Morse Code Structures in Gerhard Stäbler's Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco
· April 2021
Other
American Musicological Society, Southeast Chapter,
Virtual
Received the AMS-SE student presentation award.
Service to Duke
Student Coordinator
. Musicology Lecture Series
·
2024
- 2025
Event/Organization Administration
Duke University Department of Music,
Coordinator
. Talk Music Series
·
2023
- 2024
Professional Development
Music Graduate Student Association,
Duke University
A colleague and I ran the Talk Music series in the Department of Music, which provided professional development events for music graduate students.
Senior Representative
. South Central Graduate Music Consortium
·
2022
- 2023
Event/Organization Administration
Music Graduate Student Association,
Duke University
I was the lead for running a graduate student conference for the University of Virginia, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and Duke University music graduate students at Duke University.
Junior Representative
. South Central Graduate Music Consortium
·
2021
- 2022
Event/Organization Administration
Music Graduate Student Association,
Virtual