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Lena Leson defends dissertation
On Friday, April 16th, Lena Leson successfully defended her dissertation in front of faculty, colleagues, and friends. Congratulations, Lena, on the completion of this project, and good luck in your next academic ventures! Please see below Lena’s abstract for “Making...
Nee Chucherdwatanasak gives dissertation presentation
On April 2nd 2021, Nee Chucherdwatanasak presented a portion of her dissertation, “Creative Destruction, Perpetual Rebirth: Classical Music in the Early Twenty-First Century,” to an audience of her committee members and gathered colleagues and friends via Zoom. Please see Nee’s...
SMR Hosts Midwest Graduate Music Consortium 2021 Conference
On the weekend of April 10–11, SMR hosted the 25th annual meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium via Zoom. SMR played host to attendees from institutions all over the world, and the weekend featured twenty paper presentations by graduate...
Richard Smith Participates in Drag Panel "Them Fatales"
On March 28th, 2021, SMR member Richard Smith got into drag as “Apple” to serve on a non-binary drag panel entitled “Them Fatales” as a part of the Stream Queens’ Empowered event. Stream Queens is a team of drag artists...
Pics or It Didn't Happen
On January 3, 2020, I traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to research drag as a space that can combine queer musical performances with Arab identities. As part of my Ph.D. program in ethnomusicology, I am required to spend extensive time...