Kari Lindquist

Graduate Student (Ph.D. Candidate)

Kari Lindquist holds an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago with an interdisciplinary focus on Music History and English and a double BA in Comparative Literature and Arts & Ideas in the Humanities from the University of Michigan.

Her dissertation explores tours of U.S. wind bands in Cold War musical diplomacy. She uses archival materials and interviews to reconstruct individual musicians’ sonic experiences and encounters in public spaces. Her dissertation research has been supported by the UNC Graduate School and the Bordin/Gillette Fellowship from the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. She has presented her research at the Society for American Music conference (2019, 2020, 2023), Feminist Theory & Music conference (2022), and annual meeting for the American Musicological Society (2023).

As an advocate of community arts education, she previously worked as the Marketing & Community Engagement Coordinator in the DePaul University School of Music and as a music teaching artist in Chicago. She served as a fellow with Carolina Performing Arts as part of Humanities for the Public Good at UNC from 2021-2022 and currently holds a Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities.