Academic Faculty
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Aesthetic Theory
mebonds@email.unc.edu
Mark Evan Bonds (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor) received a B.A. in music and German from Duke University in 1975; an M.A. in musicology from the Universität Kiel (West Germany) in 1977; and a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University in 1988. He taught at Boston University before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. His research interests include music of the Classic and Romantic eras, particularly instrumental music and aesthetic theory. He is currently at work on a book on the relationship between musical aesthetics and politics in the mid-nineteenth century. [more]
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Mozart; American Musicals
cartert@email.unc.edu
Tim Carter (Distinguished Professor and Chair) was born (1954) in Sydney, Australia, and studied in the United Kingdom at the University of Durham and then under Nigel Fortune at the University of Birmingham. He has taught in the UK at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, and at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, where he was Department Chair. His doctoral research was on Jacopo Peri - his thesis was published (1989) by Garland Publications, New York, in their series 'Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities' - and he has continued to work extensively on music in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy. [more]
Cultural Politics, Twentieth Century
bmcohen@email.unc.edu
Brigid Cohen holds degrees from Harvard University (Ph.D.), Kings College London (M.Mus.), and Wellesley College (B.A.). Before coming to UNC Chapel Hill, she taught at Wesleyan University, where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities. Her research and teaching focuses on twentieth-century musical avant-gardes, jazz, postcolonial studies, cultural theory, migration and diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and intersections of music, the visual arts, and literature. She is currently writing a book on the émigré composer Stefan Wolpe that explores how dilemmas of migration and cultural plurality shaped interdisciplinary modernist movements from the Bauhaus to bebop to Black Mountain College. She is also writing an article about efforts to promote cross-cultural musical education in Mandate-era Palestine, as developed in relation to pacifist political impulses in that region. Her next project will propose a textured history of the cultural politics of formal experimentation in twentieth-century musics, taking into account unprecedented experiences of global contact and conflict. [more]
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; America During WWII
fauser@email.unc.edu
Annegret Fauser (Professor and Adjunct Professor in Women's Studies) studied musicology, art history, and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn, the Université de la Sorbonne-Paris IV, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She received her PhD at the University of Bonn in 1992. She was "chercheur invité" at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (1992-93) and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia (2001), and she held a Pardue Fellowship at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC (2004). Before joining the faculty at UNC, she taught musicology at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and City University, London. [more]
Nineteenth Century; Schumann; American Popular Song; Film Music
jfinson@email.unc.edu
Jon W. Finson (Professor and Adjunct Professor of American Studies) received a Bachelor of Music (with honors) from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973, a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1980 with a dissertation on compositional process in the symphonic works of Robert Schumann. Since then he has taught, lectured, and published widely across the United States and Europe in many areas of nineteenth-century German music and in the history of American popular song. Most recently his research has turned to interactions between image and music in American cinema. He teaches undergraduate courses in the American Studies Curriculum as well as graduate and undergraduate courses in the Music Department. [more]
Ethnomusicology; Latin America; Charanga Carolina Ensemble
daga@email.unc.edu
David F. García (Assistant Professor) holds degrees in music from the California State University, Long Beach (B.M. in composition, 1995), University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A. in ethnomusicology, 1997), and The City University of New York, The Graduate Center (Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, 2003). His research focuses on the music of Latin America and the United States with an emphasis on black music of the Americas. [more]
Arts Entrepreneurship
emil_kang@unc.edu
Emil J. Kang (Professor of the Practice) arrived in January 2005 as the University of North Carolina’s first Executive Director for the Arts, a senior administrative post created to help unify and elevate the performing arts at the University. In his first season, Kang introduced the University’s first major performing arts series, inaugurated in conjunction with the grand re-opening of the University’s main venue, Memorial Hall. After only three years, the University was invited to join the national consortium of Major University Presenters. [more]
Music and Technology; Popular Music; Performance Practice
mkatz@email.unc.edu
Mark Katz (Associate Professor) holds degrees from the College of William and Mary (B.A. in philosophy, 1992) and the University of Michigan (M.A., Ph.D. in musicology, 1999). Before joining the faculty at UNC, he taught at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University (1999-2006). His research and teaching focus on music and technology, popular music, and performance practice. He has written two books, Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music (2004) and The Violin: A Research and Information Guide (2006). He is currently at work on two books—The Social Life of Sound Technologies: A History in Documents (with Timothy Taylor and Anthony Grajeda) and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip Hop DJ—as well as a second edition of Capturing Sound. His work on Groove Music is being supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. [more]
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Music and Spectacle; Commedia dell’Arte; Opera; Performance Practice; Historiography
macneil@email.unc.edu
Anne MacNeil (Associate Professor). BMus, Ithaca College (1981); MA in Music History, Eastman School of Music (1985); PhD in the History and Theory of Music, University of Chicago (1994). Before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Professor MacNeil taught at Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of specialization include music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, music and spectacle, commedia dell’arte, opera, performance studies and historiography. Her current research encompasses early-modern laments, operatic settings of tales of the Trojan Wars, and the intersections of music, ceremony, and biography in the lives of Margherita Farnese and Eleonora de’ Medici. [more]
James Moeser
Organ, Leadership, Academia and the Arts
James_Moeser@unc.edu
James Moeser is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill. [more]
Country Music; American Popular Music
jneal@email.unc.edu
Jocelyn Neal (Associate Professor) received a B.A. in music from Rice University in 1993, an M.A. from the Eastman School of Music in 1995, and a Ph.D. in music theory from the Eastman School of Music in 2002. Her primary area of research is early country music and blues, following on her dissertation ("Song Structure Determinants: Poetic Narrative, Phrase Structure, and Hypermeter in the Music of Jimmie Rodgers"). Professor Neal teaches music theory, analysis, and popular music courses; her research addresses commercial country music, rhythm and meter, and dance/music interactions in popular music. She is the former chair of the Popular Music Group for the Society of Music Theory, and is currently a member of the editorial board for the academic journals Music Theory Spectrum and Southern Cultures. [more]
Twentieth Century; Schoenberg
SevNeff@aol.com
Severine Neff (Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor) received a Bachelor of Arts in music magna cum laude from Columbia University (1971), a Master of Arts in music theory from Yale University (1972) and a Master of Fine Arts (1974) and Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University (1979). She has taught at Bates College, Barnard College of Columbia University, and the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, before coming to UNC-CH in 1995. [more]
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; Italian Opera
jancsi@email.unc.edu
John L. Nádas (Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences) was born in Caracas , Venezuela . He received a B.F.A. in music from Tulane University in 1968; an M.A. from Villa Schifanoia ( Florence , Italy ) in 1975; and a Ph.D. in musicology from New York University in 1985. He taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1982-83 before joining the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Professor Nádas is presently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Musicology. His interests include the music of 14th- and 15th-century France and Italy , Monteverdi, and 19th-century Italian opera. [more]
Ethnomusicology, Gamelan Ensemble
mpl@email.unc.edu
Marzanna Poplawska (Lecturer in World Music and Director of Gamelan Nyai Saraswati) holds degrees from Warsaw University (M.A. in Musicology, 1998) and Wesleyan University (Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, 2008). Her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Christian Music and Inculturation in Indonesia" examines the phenomenon of inculturation, with its theoretical, political and sociological implications, in Indonesian Christian music, with a focus on central Java and the island of Flores. Her primary interests encompass the musical traditions of Indonesia, South East Asia, and Central-Eastern Europe. She is also interested in issues of musical cognition, acculturation/inculturation, music and religion, and ritual music. She is a performer of central-Javanese gamelan and dance. [more]
Opera, Voice
rhodes@email.unc.edu
Terry Rhodes (Professor and Chair) received the Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1978), and the Master of Music (1980) and Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music (1986). Especially known for her work in contemporary music, she teaches voice and directs the UNC Opera Theatre. Dr. Rhodes also serves as Director of Freshmen Admissions for the Music Department. [more]
American Music, Ethnomusicology
vanderme@email.unc.edu
Philip Vandermeer (Music Librarian, Adjunct Associate Professor) holds the Bachelor of Music (1978) and the Master of Library and Information Sciences (1980) degrees from the University of Tennessee, and a Master of Arts in musicology from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1984). He studied anthropology and ethnomusicology at Brown University, completing his Ph.D. at The University of Maryland, College Park in 1999, with a dissertation on the gospel songs of the country singer, Hank Williams. He has served as a music librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia and at the University of Maryland, and has taught musicology and ethnomusicology at SUNY-Binghamton, Brown, and the University of Maryland. He was appointed Head of the Music Library and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill in September 2001. He is currently President of the Music Library Association. His research and teaching interests include Appalachian studies, early American music, cross-cultural studies in music, religion, and performance, and early country music. In addition to teaching in the Department of Music he also teaches music librarianship in the School of Information and Library Science. [more]
Middle Ages; Twentieth-Century Music and Politics
vlhova@email.unc.edu
Hana Vlhová-Wörner (Lecturer) studied Musicology at the Charles University, Prague (1984–1989), and at the University of Basel, Switzerland (1991–1993). For the academic year 2000–2001, she received the Fellowship of the Swiss Government (“Bundesstipendium”) for post-doctoral studies at the University of Basel. She taught at the Charles University (1993–2000, 2001–2006) and was visiting professor at Duke University (Fall 2006) before coming to Chapel Hill. Since the early 1990s, she has presented her research regularly at major international conferences and has received multiple research fellowships for conducting archival research in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, England, Sweden, and Poland. Her numerous publications include a broad spectrum of topics in late-mediaeval music (tropes, sequences, early Reformation) and, more recently, issues on music and politics in the Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. [more]
History of Music Theory and Aesthetics, Twentieth Century
woerner@email.unc.edu
Felix Wörner (Assistant Professor) has studied musicology, philosophy, and German Literature at the Technical University in Berlin, at King’s College London, and at the Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg (M. A. 1996). He received his PhD at the University of Basel in 2002. Between 2002 and 2004 he was Research Assistant at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Basel (Switzerland), the University of Rostock (Germany) and the Charles University Prague (Czech Republic). He received research grants by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 1997-1999, the Paul Sacher-Foundation (1999), and the Avenir-Foundation (2004). In 2004-05 he held a Theodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation for postdoctoral research at Stanford University. [more]