Résumé

Education

Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
PhD, Music Theory – Aug 2022-Present

Washington University (St. Louis, MO)

MA, Music Theory – Aug 2020-May 2022

Anderson University (Anderson, IN)

BA, Music Theory – Aug 2016-May 2020 

Research Projects

“The Sound of The Underground”: Distinguishing Alternative Identity in Rap’s Contemporary Moment

MA Thesis – April 2022

An Unknown Infinite: Musical Practice and Discourses of Undergroundness in Contemporary Hip-Hop

PhD Dissertation – In Progress

Conference Presentations

Countersurveillant Sampling in King Vision Ultra & Algiers’ SHOOK WORLD

IASPM-US & PopCon joint conference – Mar 2025

Deconstructing Jazz Rap: Footwork, Formal Process, and Sampling in RP Boo & Armand Hammer’s “Blood Running High” (2024)

SMT–HHRIG & SMT–JIG joint session at AMS-SMT 2025 – Nov 2025

An Unknown Infinite: Flow, Layering, and Rupture as a Fugitive Theory for Hip-Hop Form

Society for Music Theory annual conference – Nov 2026