Hannah Adamy graduated in 2013 with a BA in Music from The
College of New Jersey and in 2015 with an MA in Performance
Studies from Texas A&M University. Her master’s thesis “Diva
Performativity: Female Body and Voice through Euro-Classical
Vocal Pedagogy” considers the image of the opera diva as it
relates to the process of operatic vocal training.
Hannah presented her ethnography on soprano identity in the
A&M Voice Studio as part of the ATHE Bruce Kirle Memorial
panel. The paper was later published in the Winter 2014 issue of
Studies in Musical Theatre. Her current research
interests include gendered vocality, the politics of race and
voice, and acousmatic identity politics through voice.
She was a 2019 Mellon Public Scholar and a researcher for the
Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement at UC Davis.
UC Davis Graduate Student in Music Hannah Adamy has been using
her Mellon Public Scholarship to build alliances among women and
gender-expansive musicians in Sacramento.
UC Davis selected music department graduate student
Hannah Adamy (ethnomusicology) as their Graduate
Student Researcher for “Engaged Scholarship and Engaged Learning”
for 2017–18.
As part of the new strategic plan, UC Davis has a desire to fund
community-informed arts initiatives. Adamy will be helping
Michael Rios, the faculty advisor to the Provost, to design a
plan to make this happen. She will be researching other
institutions with these kinds of community-engaged arts programs
and compiling data about them.
