Bryan Stevens Espinosa (PhD, Music Theory, ‘22), becomes Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Sam Houston State University.

Penned by UNT Assistant Professor of Music History, Beth Snyder, the Winter 2023 edition of Music & Politics has published An Impulse to Transfigure and Render New'--The Anglo-Austrian Music Society in Wartime and Early Post-war Britain.

The Journal of the American Musicological Society published Songs of the New World and the Breath of the Planet at the Orbis Spike, 1610: Toward a Decolonial Musicology of the Anthropocene by Andrew J. Chung, UNT Assistant Professor of Music Theory.

Associate Professor of Music History, Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, has received, in a rare occurrence, TWO nationally competitive awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An NEH Summer Stipend will support her research for a project entitled “Stories of Music, Luxury, and Loss in the Age of Revolutions (1760s–1820s).” The second award is the NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society allowing Dr. Geoffroy-Schwinden to carry out eight months of archival research at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. This research will culminate in a book about the musical and sonic world of the du Pont women's community from the French Revolution to the American Civil War.

UNT Professor of Music Theory, David Bard-Schwarz, has a published chapter titled, “Modes of Understanding Disruption in the First Movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony,” in the book Ästhetische Normativität in der Musik. Edited by Tobias Janz and Jens Gerrit Papenburg, the publisher is Verlag Vittorio Klostermann edit the book.

Tamar Sella joins us as Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. Her current research is “an ethnographic study of contemporary Mizrahi performance and cultural memory that seeks to illuminate the ways in which ongoing Jewish diasporic formations reframe colonial and racial logics in Israel/Palestine.” She holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD from Harvard University. She comes to us from Rice University where she is the Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Fellow.

UNT Associate Professor of Music Theory, David Heetderks, has published a book review of David Temperley's “The Musical Language of Rock” in Music Theory Online, one of the flagship journals of the Society for Music Theory (SMT).

During the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference held in Utah, UNT student Xiao Yun’s paper, "The Ignored Modal Mixture—The Chromatic Submediant in Minor Keys,” received the Best Student Paper award.

Jessica Stearns (PhD, Musicology ‘22) has accepted a position as an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, Commerce.

University of North Texas Distinguished Research Professor of Music and Anthropology, Steven Friedson, will keynote speak at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. Ritual Transformations of Consciousness is the institute's second annual conference in the Black sacred arts underway May 15 in New Haven, Connecticut.