Danielle Fosler-Lussier is an associate professor of music at the Ohio State University School of Music. Her teaching and research interests include music as a site of international contact and exchange; twentieth-century music; and the music of Joseph Haydn.

Fosler-Lussier is the author of two books: Music Divided: Bartók’s Legacy in Cold War Culture (University of California Press, 2007); and Music in America’s Cold War Diplomacy (University of California Press, 2015). The latter book is accompanied by an online database of U.S. cultural presentations from the 1950s to the 1980s. Her research on music and Cold War politics in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States has been supported by an AMS-50 dissertation fellowship as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Eisenhower Foundation, and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

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