PhD, Musicology, University of California, Los AngelesMA, Music, University of Nevada, RenoBME, Music Education, Central Washington University
Research and Teaching Interests: Music, sound, performance,
and improvisation studies; Critical Native American and
Indigenous methodologies, theories, and praxes; Critical
Indigeneity, race, gender, and feminist studies; Relational
studies of Indigenous-Black experiences in the Americas; Arts and
activism in North Pacific and Circumpolar Arctic communities.
Room 2417,
Hart Hall, 301 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Research Interest(s): Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cultural
History, Music
Julia Simon specializes in eighteenth-century French
literature and culture with special emphasis on the
relevance of Enlightenment social, political, moral, and
aesthetic theory today. She also works in music,
specifically on the cultural history of the blues. She is the
author of Time in the Blues; Rousseau among the
Moderns: Music, Aesthetics,
Politics; Beyond Contractual Morality: Ethics, Law, and
Literature in Eighteenth-Century
France and Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in
Rousseau and Diderot. Her current book project examines
calls for justice in the blues through a historical analysis of
economic relations and, specifically, the imposition of debt on
African Americans.
