Brian Anderson returns to the University of North Texas as Senior Lecturer of Music History Pedagogy after earning his PhD in musicology with a related field in music theory at UNT. He earned the Master of Music in Musicology, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Bachelor of Music Education at Kansas State University.
He is recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities grant shared with Candace Bailey and Maristella Feustle.
Barbara Dietlinger joins the University of North Texas College of Music faculty as an Assistant Professor of Music History. She comes to us from the University of Southern Mississippi where she served as an Assistant Professor of Music.
Bibiana Vergine received her Ph.D. in Musicology from Princeton University in 2016, and her M.M. in Musicology, B.M. in Piano Performance and B.A. in Liberal Arts Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on medieval hymns in southern Italy, examining how their transmission in extant manuscripts reflects the dynamics of power, religious interests, and political concerns of the region in the late middle ages. Dr.
Robert Michael Anderson is a visiting professor in Music History. He completed his Ph.D. in musicology and minor in German studies at the University of North Texas in 2022. He also holds a master of studies in musicology from the University of Oxford and a bachelor of arts in music from Loyola University Chicago, with further studies at the University of Vienna. His dissertation, “Ideal Hausmusik: Brahms’s Vocal Quartets (Opp. 31, 52, 64, 65, 92, 103, and 112) and the Politics of Domestic Music ca.
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 was the Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Fellow.
Beth Snyder is an Assistant Professor of Music History at University of North Texas. Previously, she served as Research Associate on the UK AHRC-funded ‘Music, Migration and Mobility’ project based at the Royal College of Music, London. She is a graduate of New York University’s doctoral program in musicology, and also holds an M.A. and B.A.
Laura Russell serves as the Administrative Coordinator for Music History/Theory/Ethnomusicology (MHTE), Music Education and Composition Studies divisions.
Brian F. Wright, a specialist in the history of American popular music, joined the UNT faculty in 2019. He holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Case Western Reserve University and is a former research assistant for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive. His research primarily focuses on the history of the electric bass in jazz, rock, country, and rhythm & blues, exploring issues such as authenticity, social stigma, amateur music-making, race, authorship, and popular music historiography.
Dr. Chung will be on Faculty Development Leave (FDL) for the 2024-2025 academic year.
David Heetderks is Chair of the Division of History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. His research includes form and expression in pop/rock music and he is currently studying how text and timbre affirm or deviate from formal expectations in popular song-forms. His previous research investigated geometric models of chromatic voice leading in post-2000 art rock, quotation and distortion of past styles by the band Sonic Youth, and the use of irregular textual and phrase rhythms in indie music. In addition to his popular-music research, Dr.
