People

Victor Anand Arul (he/him)

victor_arul@g.harvard.edu

Conference Co-Chair

GSAS Graduate Student Council (GSC) Representative

Victor Arul is a doctoral student in composition. He holds a BA from the University of Western Australia (supervised by James Ledger), and a BMus (Hons.) from the University of Melbourne (supervised by Elliott Gyger).

Jordan R. Brown (she/her)

jbrown@g.harvard.edu

Chair

Jordan R. Brown, M.M., M.A. (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology and Presidential Scholar at Harvard University with a secondary field in African and African American Studies. She is currently chair of Harvard University’s Graduate Music...

Michele Cheng

michelecheng@fas.harvard.edu

Loeb Music Library Representative

Pre-Generals Faculty Representative

Haley Heinricks (she/her)

haleyheinricks@g.harvard.edu

Social Co-Officer

Haley is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at Harvard University. Her research investigates relationships between instruments and musical encounters. Her dissertation focuses specifically on the saxophone, adopting critical organological perspectives...

Siriana Lundgren (she/her)

slundgren@g.harvard.edu

Public Service Coordinator

Wellness Co-Officer

Siriana is a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Musicology at Harvard University. Her disseration investigates the musical labor and performance strategies of sex workers and their allies in 19th-century Western boomtowns. Drawing on archival newspapers, legal...

Cana McGhee

cana_mcghee@g.harvard.edu

Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU) Representative

Cana (KAY-nuh) is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology. She is broadly interested in understanding how ideas about listenership foster ways of attuning to multispecies relationships and more-than-human nature. Her dissertation explores this terrain by...

Christina Nikitin

cnikitin@fas.harvard.edu

Secretary

Christina Misaki Nikitin is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at Harvard University. Her research examines the aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions of trans*gressive musical practices in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on how performers negotiate...