Elizabeth Campbell is a musicology Ph.D. student at the
University of California, Davis. She graduated from Indiana
University in 2017 with master’s degrees in musicology and
library science after completing a bachelor’s degree in music at
Luther college in 2014. Her research interests include
Renaissance vocal polyphony and amateur music making in the
United States, in particular the music of the early
twentieth-century women’s suffrage movement.
Melita Anastasia Denny is a student in the UC Davis Ph.D. program
in musicology. She earned a bachelor’s of science degree in viola
da gamba performance from Indiana University Jacob’s School of
Music, graduating with distinction in 2009. During her studies at
IU, she also did additional work in music history with research
interests centering on the history of music theory and imitative
counterpoint in Renaissance sacred polyphony.
Andressa Gonçalves Vidigal is a Ph.D. student in musicology at
the University of California, Davis. She is Brazilian and grew up
in the city of Maringá, Paraná. She holds a bachelor’s degree in
music from Universidade Estadual de Maringá and a master’s en
route from University of California, Davis. Her current
studies are funded by the Brazilian agency CAPES (Coordination
for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel); from whom she
received the esteemed Doutorado Pleno (Full Doctoral)
Scholarship.
Jonathan Minnick is a third-year musicology PhD student at UC
Davis. Jonathan graduated with a Bachelor’s of Music in trombone
performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in 2016. At UNC, he performed in many ensembles across the campus
while also focusing on musicological studies, leading to an
honors thesis exploring Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. This
thesis explores the Alpine Symphony in terms of its historical
origins, cultural influences, symphonic characteristics, and
extensive tone painting.
Leanny Muñoz received a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts
with a concentration in Fine and Performing Arts and a minor in
Music Performance from the Louisiana Scholars’ College at
Northwestern State University of Louisiana. There she wrote
an undergraduate thesis, “Female Characters in Opera of the
Enlightenment through the Late-Romantic Era: Mozart, Beethoven,
Verdi, and Puccini.” Her primary research interests are in late
nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Spanish
nationalism, especially as related to the work of Felipe
Pedrell and Manuel de Falla.
Serena Yang is a doctoral candidate in musicology at the
University of California, Davis. Her research interests include
twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, interdisciplinary
studies, cultural studies, and Asian music. Yang holds a
bachelor’s degree in violin from National Sun Yat-Sen University,
Taiwan, and a master’s degree in music history from the
University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music under
Bruce McClung.
