Alexander Stalarow received his Ph.D. in Musicology in 2017. His dissertation, Listening to a Liberated Paris: Pierre Schaeffer Experiments with Radio, was funded by awards including a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French government, a Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship, and an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship. Alex currently lectures at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and University of the Pacific.