{"id":393,"date":"2023-04-05T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/?page_id=393"},"modified":"2023-08-28T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T23:16:11","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jacqueline Avila<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:javila1@utk.edu\">javila1@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-79 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Avila.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><strong>Dr. Jacqueline Avila<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor in musicology at the University of Tennessee. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music from the University of California, Riverside and a B.A. in music with a dual emphasis in French horn performance and music education from the University of California, Los Angeles.\u00a0 Her research interests include Mexican modernism, nationalism, and cinema and media studies. She was a recipient of the UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant and the American Musicological Society\u2019s Howard Meyer Brown Fellowship, and has presented her research at several conferences in the United States and Mexico. She is currently writing a book manuscript tentatively titled <em>CineSonidos: Cinematic Music in Early Mexican Film<\/em>, which is an examination of meaning and cultural representation in Mexican film music.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Hannah Balcomb<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"mailto:hannahbalcomb@gmail.com\" href=\"mailto:hannahbalcomb@gmail.com\">hannahbalcomb@gmail.com<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-249\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hannah-Balcomb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hannah-Balcomb.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hannah-Balcomb-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Dr. Hannah Balcomb<\/strong> holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on music, identity, and social change in\/of Latin America. Her dissertation examines racial and ethnic constructs of Indigeneity in Argentina and the ways that displaced groups, and those in solidarity with these groups, use popular and folkloric music to define their social status and contest a homogenous national imaginary. Hannah received her M.A. in ethnomusicology from UCR. Her thesis compared the ways that immigrant versus diasporic groups in Los Angeles used son jarocho music to foster community and social action.\u00a0 She received her B.A. in Latin American Studies from The Evergreen State College.\u00a0Hannah is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright IIE Grant, as well as a Graduate Research Mentorship Program Award, a Teacher of the Year Award, and multiple Gluck scholarships from UCR.\u00a0 She has presented her research in local, national, and international conferences including those of the <em>Society for Ethnomusicology<\/em>(SEM) and the<em>International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) <\/em>in Shanghai, Kazakhstan, and Ireland.\u00a0\u00a0 Hannah is passionate about making a difference through teaching and takes advantage of every opportunity for pedagogical training. During her graduate studies, Hannah completed the University Teaching Program and a teaching practicum in English composition. She has taught multiple classes in the music and English department including <em>Introduction to Popular Music of the World<\/em>and I<em>ntroduction to World Music <\/em>as well as a three-part English composition series.\u00a0 In addition to teaching, Hannah is interested in documentary making and in event and conference organizing. In 2011 and 2013, she interned with the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife Cultural Heritage.\u00a0 n 2016-2017, she worked as the Graduate Student Resource Center Coordinator with the UCR GradSuccess Program. In this position, she planned and facilitated three graduate student development symposia. In 2017-2018, she served as co-chair for the University of California, Riverside Music Graduate Student Association debut conference on Latin American Music and Performance. She also participated in the creation of the Latin American Special Interest Group for <em>ICTM<\/em>and served on the abstract committee for this group\u2019s initial conference. Hannah has served as an interviewer for the Fulbright IIE and the Fulbright English Teaching Abroad Program. She is currently the Sponsored Panel-Coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean Music Section for <em>SEM<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Gary Barnett<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:gbarnett70@yahoo.com\">gbarnett70@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-81 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><strong>Gary Barnett<\/strong> completed his doctoral studies in historical musicology in the spring of 2012 after an extended research trip to Lisbon, Portugal where he received a scholarship with the LUSO\/Gulbenkian foundation to study the compositions of Carlos Seixas (1704-1742).\u00a0 His dissertation was entitled\u00a0<em>Three Manifestations of Carlos Seixas (1704-1742): A Study of Historiographical Biography, Reception, and Interpretation.<\/em> As a student at UCR, he performed as both soloist and continuoist with the Musicum Collegium, as well as performances with the Chamber Singers and Choral Society.\u00a0 Gary has also enjoyed posting Youtube videos with his carillon and organ teacher, David Christensen (UCR Carilloneur), in the UC Belltower.\u00a0 He is now a full-time lecturer in music theory at UCR and continues to perform nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Corey Michael Blake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-293 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blake_Corey.jpg\" alt=\"Corey Blake\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corey Michael Blake<\/strong> is a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Riverside. His dissertation examines cultural performance, nationalism, and identity for Panamanians of Chinese descent. In March 2017, Corey was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship for his 2017-2018 fieldwork in Panama City, Panama. His research interests include musical expressions of identity in diasporic Central American populations and the effects of tourism on rural Appalachian musical identities. Beginning in 2012, Corey spent a year interning with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, working with ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and experts in the recording music industry. There, he was commissioned to curate a music playlist for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. In 2015, he graduated with his M.M. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Corey also holds a B.M. degree in voice education from James Madison University with a minor in anthropology.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Joshua Brown<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jbrow019@ucr.edu\">jbrow019@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-80 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Joshua Brown<\/strong> is a Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Chapman University in Orange, California. His research focuses on flamenco musical cultures in southern Spain, as well as folk music in the United States. His work explores how flamenco performance models intimacy and solidarity in Andalusian communities based in Seville and Mor\u00f3n de la Frontera. Dr. Brown earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at UC Riverside, and his B.A. in history at UC Santa Barbara.\u00a0At Chapman University he teaches the\u00a0<em>Musical Cultures of the World\u00a0<\/em>series, as well as several other courses regarding popular music, race, and social movements.\u00a0 Brown has received several grants and awards from institutions that include the Fulbright Institute for International Education, the University of California President\u2019s Office, the UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society, and the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts. He has presented his work in the U.S., Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Australia.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Daniel Castro Pantoja<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"mailto:dfcastropan@uncg.edu\" href=\"mailto:dfcastropan@uncg.edu\">dfcastropan@uncg.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-224 size-custom\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Daniel-Castro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Daniel Castro Pantoja<\/strong> is currently Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He joined UNC Greensboro, after having previously taught at the University of Houston and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogot\u00e1, Colombia). From 2020 to 2022, he was Research Associate at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at UC Riverside. He is a council member of the American Musicological Society (AMS), co-chair of the AMS Global Music History Study Group, and Area Editor (Northern South America) for the upcoming\u00a0<i>Grove Dictionary of Latin American and Iberian Music.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His current book project examines the perceived relation between music, intimacy, and populism in Colombian state politics during the early twentieth century. Other research interests include: Latin American studies, decolonial music studies, populism studies, post-foundational political theory, and global music history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Castro Pantoja is a recipient Society of American Music&#8217;s Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award. He is the first Latino to win this prize. His work has been published in journals such as the\u00a0<i>Journal of the American Musicological Society, Latin American Research Review, TRANS-Transcultural Music Review<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Latin American Music Review<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Americas: A Hemispheric Music Journal article,\u00a0<\/i>the\u00a0<i>Journal of Musicology\u00a0<\/i>(forthcoming), and the\u00a0<i>Journal of Music History Pedagogy\u00a0<\/i>(forthcoming).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Castro Pantoja&#8217;s public-facing work has appeared in the Smithsonian Folkways Blog and Colombia&#8217;s\u00a0<i>Banco de la Rep\u00fablica<\/i>\u00a0blog. He is also the co-curator of\u00a0<i>Jacqueline Nova: Creaci\u00f3n de la Tierra<\/i>\u00a0an immersive sound-based installation exhibited at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston Texas (2020); and of\u00a0<i>Coleccionistas de sonidos: El \u00e1lbum musical de Ana y Cristina Echeverr\u00eda\u00a0<\/i>(2021), a digital exhibition funded by the Bogot\u00e1 Philharmonic Orchestra and the District of Bogot\u00e1&#8217;s Program of Cultural Incentives. He holds a B.M. in Music Performance from Loyola University New Orleans, and M.M. in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of the Akron, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California Riverside.<\/div>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Bernard Gordillo Brockmann<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:bernard.gordillo@email.ucr.edu\">bernard.gordillo@email.ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bernard-Gordillo-Brockmann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-421\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bernard-Gordillo-Brockmann-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Bernard Gordillo Brockmann\" width=\"160\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bernard-Gordillo-Brockmann-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bernard-Gordillo-Brockmann-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bernard-Gordillo-Brockmann-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bernard-Gordillo-Brockmann-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bernard-Gordillo-Brockmann.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Gordillo Brockmann<\/strong>, born in Nicaragua, is a UCLA Chancellor\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of History, Department of Musicology, and Chicano Studies Research Center. He is a historian and musicologist whose interdisciplinary scholarship lies at the intersection of music, sound, and politics in Latin America, and the region\u2019s historical relations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>His book project, \u201cCanto de Marte: Art Music, Popular Culture, and U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua\u201d (under contract with Oxford University Press), explores the cultural impact of early twentieth-century U.S. intervention in Central America. In development, his second monograph will examine sound and colonization in California, undertaken in consultation with California Indian leaders, scholars, and community members. He serves as area editor for Central America on the <em>Grove Dictionary of Latin American and Iberian Music<\/em>, and associate editor of <em>Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology from the University of California, Riverside, and graduate degrees in performance from Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. As a professional harpsichordist, he has collaborated with numerous musicians and ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Before coming to UCLA, Bernard was a postdoctoral associate and lecturer at Yale University (2021\u201323).<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Jessica Gutierrez<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jguti045@ucr.edu\">jguti045@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-215\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gutierrez-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gutierrez-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gutierrez-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gutierrez.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Jessica Margarita Gutierrez Masini<\/strong>\u00a0is a Ph.D student in Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) with interdisciplinary research interests in feminist and decolonizing methodologies, music of the Americas, and music and identities. She is fascinated by how Native American peoples not only maintain, but celebrate and create traditions through music and dance. Jessica has recently completed her M.A. at UCR with an engaged ethnomusicological project titled \u201cNative American Indigeneity through Danza in University of California Powwows: A Decolonized Approach.\u201d She has presented highlights from this research locally and nationally for the Society of Ethnomusicology in 2018, as well as internationally at Graduate Student Music Conference in Toronto, Canada. In 2015, Jessica was the first music major at UCD to earn the Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, and in 2016, she was presented with a Native American Community Honoring for her contribution to the 44th UCD Powwow and Native American Culture Days. She currently serves as President of the Music Graduate Student Association at UCR and as Student Representative for the Southern California and Hawaii Chapter for the Society of Ethnomusicology. Jessica\u2019s ultimate goal is to indigenize academia by supporting\u00a0indigenous self-determination in higher education.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Hermann Hudde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-custom wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hermann-Hudde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hermann-Hudde.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hermann-Hudde-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Hermann Hudde<\/strong> is a musicologist and classical guitar performer who is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at the University of California, Riverside. Hudde earned degrees at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, New England Conservatory of Music, Brandeis University and Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Detmold, Abteilung M\u00fcnster. He has published articles and reviews in <em>Revista Musical Chilena, Soundboard, Mundo Cl\u00e1sico, Revista de Musicolog\u00eda, Tempo, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Latin American Music Review <\/em>and<em>Harvard Review of Latin America<\/em>. In 2011, he received a Jane\u2019s Travel Grant and \u201cOutstanding Research and Proposal Project\u201d from the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Brandeis University (2011). Hudde earned the Second Prize (2016) and an Honorable Mention (2014) for the Otto Mayer Serra Award in Musicology, and a Research Grant by the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation (2015). He has read papers about Latin American art, music, and culture at Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Andr\u00e9s Bello, Wheaton College, Lasell College, UC Irvine, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Tufts University, among other academic venues. Additionally, his experience as a college music instructor includes designing a course entitled Latin American Classical Traditions, which he has taught onsite and online at the New England Conservatory School of Continuing Education, as well as serving as a Teaching Assistant for music courses at the University of California, Riverside. For more information, please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/ucriverside.academia.edu\/HermannHudde\">http:\/\/ucriverside.academia.edu\/HermannHudde<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Eric Johns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Johns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Johns<\/strong> is Archivist and Curator at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. His research interests include music, geography, race, and nationalism in popular and art music, particularly in the R\u00edo de la Plata and his native Louisiana. In 2020, Eric became the first graduate student from the Arts to win the UCR Grad Slam competition with his research on the erasure of Afrodescendant tango guitar players.<\/p>\n<p>Before his position at Tulane, Eric was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Riverside&#8217;s XCITE Center, where he conducted innovative research on corporeality in the classroom, inclusive pedagogy, and effective faculty development. He holds a Ph.D. (2021) and an M.A. (2016) in musicology from the same institution. His dissertation, &#8220;<em>Otra cosa es con la guitarra<\/em>:<em>\u00a0<\/em>Representation of the Guitar in Literature on Rioplatense Tango,&#8221; is a critical historiography of the guitar in tango history.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>David Kendall, Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:davikend@gmail.com\">davikend@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-412\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/David-Kendall-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Kendall\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/David-Kendall-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/David-Kendall-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/David-Kendall-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/David-Kendall-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/David-Kendall-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>David J. Kendall<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of Music at La Sierra University and Riverside, California, where he serves as Associate Department Chair.\u00a0 He earned M.A.\u00a0and Ph.D. degrees in historical musicology from UCR where he also received a Chancellor&#8217;s Fellowship, and B.Mus. and Performer&#8217;s Certificate degrees from La Sierra University.\u00a0 David&#8217;s research\u00a0interests include the liturgical music, church history, and sacred material cultures of the Philippines during the Spanish and American colonial eras, as well as organology, performance practice and reception, ecocriticism, literary criticism, and the history of music theory as theology.\u00a0 He has published articles in\u00a0<em>Pintacasi<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Arts and Humanities Asia<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Philippiniana Sacra<\/em>,\u00a0and chapters in edited volumes published by the University of the Philippines Press and Lexington Books.\u00a0 David&#8217;s book,\u00a0<em>The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination<\/em>, was published by Lexington Books in 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David has received multiple Harry S. Schrillo Faculty Research Fellowships at La Sierra University, letters of commendation from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, and recently received the Verla Rae Kwiram Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from La Sierra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David is very active in field research, lecturing, and mentoring future musicologists and researchers in the Philippines, holding visiting professorships at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, the University of Santo Tom\u00e1s (Manila), and the University of the Southeastern Philippines, as well as an International Visiting Lectureship at the Ateneo de Davao University.\u00a0 David splits his time between Riverside and the Philippines, together with his wife Shiela, and daughters Carmina and Mika\u00ebla.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Mindy LaTour<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"mailto:Melinda.Latour@tufts.edu\" href=\"mailto:Melinda.Latour@tufts.edu\">Melinda.Latour@tufts.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-custom wp-image-231\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Melinda-Latour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Melinda-Latour.jpg 321w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Melinda-Latour-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><b>Melinda Latour<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0Rumsey Family Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Arts,and Assistant Professor of Musicology at Tufts University (appointed 2016). She earned a Ph.D. in Musicology from UCLA (2016); an MA in Ethnomusicology from UC Riverside (2009); and a BA in Music from UC Berkeley (2002).\u00a0A scholar of early music and contemporary popular music, Latour\u00a0has recently published her first monograph,<i>\u00a0The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652<\/i>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2023).\u00a0She has also\u00a0published an edited collection (co-edited with Robert Fink and Zachary Wallmark),\u00a0<i>The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music<\/i>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2018), which won the Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society. Latour\u2019s scholarship has\u00a0appeared in the\u00a0<i>Bloomsbury Cultural History of Music<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Music and Letters<\/i>,\u00a0the\u00a0<i>Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music<\/i>, the\u00a0<i>Revue de musicologie<\/i>, and\u00a0the\u00a0<i>Journal of Musicology<\/i>.\u00a0Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Alessio Olivieri<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:aoliv015@ucr.edu\">aoliv015@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-415\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Alessio-Olivieri-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alessio Olivieri\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Alessio-Olivieri-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Alessio-Olivieri-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Alessio-Olivieri.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Dr. Alessio Olivieri<\/strong> is a native Italian musicologist and classical guitarist. He is an Assistant Professor in Music History at the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/arts.unl.edu\/music\/faculty\/alessio-olivieri\" href=\"https:\/\/arts.unl.edu\/music\/faculty\/alessio-olivieri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glenn Korff School of Music<\/a>, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a Research Associate at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music (CILAM) at the University of California Riverside.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Before being appointed at UNL, he served as a guitar instructor at Nebraska Wesleyan University and the PennWest Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and as an Associate Instructor at the University of California Riverside. His main research and current book project examine\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/1zg2x31f#mainhttps:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/1zg2x31f%23main\" href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/1zg2x31f#mainhttps:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/1zg2x31f%23main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">realism and\u00a0<i>verismo<\/i>\u00a0in the Spanish musical theater at the crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\"><u>.<\/u><\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Other research interests included Italian chamber romances (art songs) of the 19th century \u2014with his book\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/alessioolivieri.com\/?page_id=97\" href=\"https:\/\/alessioolivieri.com\/?page_id=97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Le romanze da salotto di Michele Bellucci.<\/i><\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><i><span lang=\"IT\">Le edizioni a stampa e i manoscritti autografi<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/a><span lang=\"IT\">\u00a0(2010)\u2014 and guitar literature.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>His MM graduate thesis, titled\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/alessioolivieri.com\/?page_id=97\" href=\"https:\/\/alessioolivieri.com\/?page_id=97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><span lang=\"IT\">\u201cIl Tenebrismo: la chitarra della\u00a0<i>noche oscura\u00a0<\/i>da Manuel de Falla ad Angelo Gilardino,<\/span><\/span><\/a><span lang=\"IT\">\u201d introduced the concept of \u201ctenebrism\u201d as a new poetic in the 20th-century guitar repertoire.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>He\u00a0has presented his scholarship at national and international conferences in the U.S., Italy, and Australia. As a professional classical guitarist, he has performed throughout the U.S., Italy, Australia, and New Zealand, especially as a duo with his wife, soprano\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.elisaramon.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elisaramon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Elisa Ramon<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Olivieri holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California Riverside, a Master of Music in Classical Guitar Performance from Manhattan School of Music (NYC) and a Master of Music (summa cum laude) in Music Publishing, a Diploma in Classical Guitar, and a Bachelor of Music in Musicology all from the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua, Italy.<\/div>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Alyson Payne<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alysonpayne@yahoo.com\">alysonpayne@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-88 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Payne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><strong>Alyson Payne<\/strong>\u00a0completed her doctoral studies in 2012, with a dissertation entitled, \u201cThe 1964 Festival of Music of the Americas and Spain: A Critical Examination of Ibero-American Musical Relations in the Context of Cold War Politics,\u201d advised by Dr. Leonora Saavedra. She received her master\u2019s degree from Bowling Green State University, under the direction of Dr. Carol A. Hess. Her interests include music and politics during the twentieth century as well as music and nationalism. She recently presented at the Latin American Studies Association (Barcelona, 2018), and the national meeting of the American Musicological Society (Milwaukee, 2014\/San Antonio, 2018).<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Jacob Rekedal<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jrekedal@uahurtado.cl\">jrekedal@uahurtado.cl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-89 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Rekedal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jacob Rekedal<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto de M\u00fasica of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, in Santiago, Chile. He has conducted fieldwork in central and southern Chile since 2009, with support from the UC Pacific Rim Research Program, Fulbright, and the Chilean government. His work has been published in journals of Latin American Studies and ethnomusicology, and he is currently working on his first book, concerning the role of hip-hop and rock in Mapuche culture. Since 2015, Rekedal has served as the Chile Liaison Officer to the International Council for Traditional Music.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Stela<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:emcdo001@ucr.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emcdo001@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-custom wp-image-227\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Elizabeth-Stela.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Elizabeth-Stela.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Elizabeth-Stela-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Elizabeth Stela<\/strong> is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at UC Riverside, and she earned her MA in Oral History from Columbia University. Her research interests include the music of Japan and the Japanese diaspora, music in intentional communities, phenomenology, and space exploration. Her dissertation research explores music and belonging in intentional communities in Brazil whose members identify as Japanese or embrace perceived Japanese values. Elizabeth has participated in a variety of music and dance ensembles including Origens (Austin, TX), Grupo Vak (S\u00e3o Paulo), Yuubi Japanese Dance Company (S\u00e3o Paulo), the Viva Brazil Dance Company (New York), and the Martha Graham Ensemble (New York).<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Desmond Stevens<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:desmond.t.stevens@gmail.com\">desmond.t.stevens@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-custom wp-image-235\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Desmond-Stevens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Desmond-Stevens.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Desmond-Stevens-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Desmond Stevens<\/strong> received his BA degrees in Music Education and Sociology from UCLA in 2009. He also holds an MA in Musicology from UC Riverside (2011). During his time at Riverside, he focused his studies on the music of nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin American classical and popular music. His thesis investigated the music of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla and the Argentine expectations of national musical identity. Since receiving his master\u2019s degree he worked as a music teacher in LA and Orange Counties. In 2012 he worked with a colleague to develop the first high school mariachi ensemble (Mariachi Los Vaqueros) in Garden Grove at Rancho Alamitos High School. After, four years of growing this program, he accepted a position to plan, develop, and start the curriculum at Portola High School in Irvine, CA. In 2017 he was named one of Orange County\u2019s Top-25 Teachers and recognized as the Performing Arts Educator of the Year. His recognition came from his work to fuse traditional high school instrumental instruction (strings, winds, and percussion) with a specifically tailored curriculum incorporating elements of Western music history, World music history, and Ethnomusicology which reflects the diverse demographics of his school\u2019s student body.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Robert Wahl<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:robertwahl@gmail.com\">robertwahl@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Robert-Wahl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Robert-Wahl.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Robert-Wahl-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Robert Wahl<\/strong> is a lecturer for the University Writing Program at the University of California, Riverside, and holds an M.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2016) in historical musicology from California State University, Long Beach, and the University of California, Riverside, respectively. Robert is also a classical guitarist and earned a B.M. (2009) from San Diego State University, where he studied with George Svoboda and played in a variety of Latin American and guitar ensembles. As a Ph.D. student at UC Riverside, Robert was a Gluck Fellow of the Arts (2012\u201316) and visited many local schools and community centers playing classical guitar for a wide variety of audiences. His research interests include guitar music of Latin America, such as that of Paraguayan guitarist and composer Agust\u00edn Barrios Mangor\u00e9, and the music of Spain. Robert\u2019s dissertation examines the lives and music of Carlos Surinach and Leonardo Balada, two Spanish-born composers who immigrated to the United States in search of opportunity and artistic freedom following the Spanish Civil War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Avila javila1@utk.edu Dr. Jacqueline Avila is an Assistant Professor in musicology at the University of Tennessee. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music from the University of California, Riverside and a B.A. in music with a dual emphasis in French horn performance and music education from the University of California, Los Angeles.\u00a0 Her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/alumni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alumni<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cilam.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}