Résumé
updated 10.2025
full CV available via GitHub
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
Known Unknowns: Musical Practice and Discourses of Undergroundness in Contemporary Hip-Hop
PhD Dissertation – In Progress
Conference Presentations
Sampling(,) Earthseed: Dynamic Musicopoetics and Butlerian Themes in Two Collaborative Works by Nicole MitchellSociety for American Music Conference – March 2024
Countersurveillant Sampling in King Vision Ultra & Algiers’ SHOOK WORLD
IASPM-US & PopCon Joint Conference – March 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