Virginia Jansen is a PhD student in Historical Musicology at the University of California, Davis. She graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music concentrating in Historical Musicology, with a minor in African American Studies, in 2024. While there, she completed a research project on the influence of enslaved African Spirituals on Florence Price’s chamber music and earned the Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award and the Provost Scholars award. Her primary research interests focus on the influence of vernacular music on American classical music in the 19th and 20th centuries. In this work, she aims to explore questions of identity, musical borrowing, and intertextuality, as well as issues of revival.