EMPLOYMENT

• Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of Virginia (2012-2017)
• Teaching Assistant: Temple University (2010-2012)

EDUCATION

• PhD, Music – University of Virginia (May 2017)
• MA, Music – University of Virginia (December 2015)
• MM, Music History – Temple University (May 2012)
• BM, Guitar Performance – Temple University, magna cum laude (May 2010)

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

• "Saving the NEA Won’t Save Culture." With Benjamin Laude. Jacobin. May 7, 2017.
• "Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Arts." The Philadelphia Partisan. April 12, 2017.
• Review of One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock, by Dave Laing. Popular Music and Society 39:04 (October, 2016): 476-478.
• "Inside the Green Room." Jacobin. June 14, 2016.
• Review of Networks of Sound, Style, and Subversion: The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool, and Sheffield, 1975-80, by Nick Crossley. Popular Music 35:02 (May, 2016): 291-293.
• “Punk Rock New York.” IASPM-US Website. March 10, 2016.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Peter L. Paige Grant – The Serpentine Society (2016-2017)
• PhD Fellowship – University of Virginia (2012-2017)
• Battestin Fellowship – Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (2016)
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Visiting Scholar – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2015)
• Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Award – UVa (2015)
• Milton Sutter Memorial Award – Temple University (2012)
• Dean's Grant – Temple University (2011 & 2012)
• Frances Hutton Memorial Award – Temple University (2011)

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Roundtable: The Spirit of ’77: Punk at 40. International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH (February 23-26, 2017).
• Historical Materialism and Popular Music Studies. AMS/SMT. Vancouver, BC (November 3-6, 2016).
• ’Are You a Boy or Are You A Girl?’ New York Queer Punk in the 1970s. IASPM- US Annual Conference. Calgary, AB (May 28-30, 2016).
• Lukács, Mahler, and the Antinomies of Musical Meaning. South Central Graduate Music Consortium. UNC Chapel Hill (September 19-20, 2014).
• On Art's Right to Exist. Left Forum: Reform and/or Revolution. New York, NY (May 30-June 1, 2014).
• From 'You Better Work' to 'Born this Way’: Popular Music and Gay Visibility. Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. New Orleans, LA (November 1-4, 2012).
• “'Sometimes I Wished My Fist Was a Sledgehammer’: No Wave and the (Re)modernist Sublime.” Music and Violence: Conflict, Resistance, and Reconciliation. Boston University (February 18, 2012).
• “’It's Better than Pleasure, It Hurts More than Pain’: No Wave and the Subversion of Jouissance.” Radical Music History Symposium. Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland (December 8-9, 2011).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (2012-present)

As Instructor of Record, Music

• Fall 2015: Music Theory I
• Summer 2015: Popular Music/Cultural & Historical Studies of Music
• Spring 2015: Basic Musical Skills
• Fall 2015: Basic Musical Skills

As Teaching Assistant & Discussion Leader, Music

• Spring 2015: Music and Politics
• Spring 2014: Popular Music
• Fall 2013: American Music
• Spring 2013: Introduction to Music
• Fall 2012: Exploring the Orchestra

Temple University (2010-2012)

As Teaching Assistant, Music Studies

• See full Vita for list of courses

SERVICE

• Executive Web Editor: IASPM-US, 2017-present
• Executive Committee: IASPM-US, 2016-present
• Organizer: Social Theory Reading Group, UVa, 2014-2016
• Board Member: LGBTQ Advisory Board, UVa, 2014-2016
• President: Queer Grads, UVa, 2014-2016
• Chair: South Central Graduate Music Consortium Conference, UVa, 2015
• Representative: Graduate Student Council, UVa, 2013-2015
• Representative and Judge: University Judiciary Committee, UVa, 2013-2015
• Organizer: South Central Graduate Music Consortium, UNC Chapel Hill, 2014
• Representative: GSAS Student Council Initiatives Committee, UVa, 2013-2014

For full CV, click here.