Ph.D. Dissertations in Progress

Angela D. Hammond
Color Me Country: Whiteness and Country Music
(research director: Ron Pen)
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Kevin Kehrberg
“I’ll Fly Away”: The Music and Career of Albert E. Brumley and the Cultural Impact of His Most Famous Composition
(research director: Ron Pen)
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Tedrin Blair Lindsay
The Development of a Core Repertoire of American Operas at New York City Opera under Julius Rudel, 1957-1979
(research director: Diana R. Hallman)
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Paige Clark Lush
Music and Identity in Circuit Chautauqua: 1904-1932
(research director: Ron Pen)
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Nikos Pappas
Patterns in the Sacred Musical Culture of the American South and West (1760-1860)
(research director: Ron Pen)
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Michael A. Rintamaa
The English Church Music of Edmund Hooper (c.1553-1621)
(research director: Jonathan Glixon)
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Eric S. Strother
Untangling the Paradox of Christian Heavy Metal
(research director: Ron Pen)
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Heidy K. Ximenes
The Carnivals of Salvador
(research director: Jonathan Glixon)
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