Assistant Professor Katherine In-Young Lee received a
2014–15 Hellman Fund Fellowship at UC Davis.
The Hellman Family Foundation contributed funds to establish the
UC Davis Hellman Fellows Program to provide support and
encouragement for the research of promising assistant professors
who exhibit potential for great distinction in their research.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Harvard UniversityM.A., Ethnomusicology, University of WashingtonB.M., Piano Performance; B.M., Musicology, University of Michigan
Katherine In-Young Lee is an ethnomusicologist with research
interests in East Asia, music and politics, transnational
circulations, sound studies, and ethnography. She is intrigued by
how analyses of sound can offer reappraisals of past events and
contemporary cultural phenomena. In this vein, she has developed
research projects that engage various types of “sonic
evidence”—from the politicized drumming of dissent to the audible
dimensions of a nation branding campaign.
