Faculty and Staff
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
Professor of Music
HISAM Director
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton is Tow Associate Professor of Musicology and American Studies at Brooklyn College, where she is also director of the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music. Her edition of Miriam Gideon's 1958 Opera Fortunato was published with A-R's Recent Researches in American Music Series, and she is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability. She has published numerous articles on American music topics, including "Blind Tom" Wiggins, Pauline Oliveros, and women in hip-hop. She is also co-convener of the colloquy on "Music and Disability Aesthetics" in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Her current monograph project centers on American opera and disability, and she is editor of a forthcoming collection on American popular song as domestic violence narrative.
Ray Allen
Ray Allen
Professor of Music
Senior Research Associate
Trained in folklore, ethnomusicology, and American studies at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his Ph.D. in 1987, Ray Allen has been affiliated with the Hitchcock Institute since 1993. His research has ranged from African American gospel, Caribbean Carnival music, and the folk music revival to the works of composers Ruth Crawford Seeger and George Gershwin. His books include Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City (University of Pennsylvania Press), Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music in New York City (University of Illinois Press, co-edited with Lois Wilcken), Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music (University of Rochester Press, co-edited with Ellie Hisama), Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Urban Folk Music Revival (University of Illinois Press), and most recently Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City (Oxford University Press). Allen co-edits American Music Review and coordinates HISAM scholarly conferences and concerts.
Jeffrey Taylor
Jeffrey Taylor
Professor of Music
Senior Research Associate; HISAM Director 2005-2019
Jeffrey Taylor (Ph.D., Michigan) has been a member of the Conservatory faculty since 1993. He specializes in jazz and other areas of music in the United States, though he also teaches general courses in Western music history and musicology and has regularly led sections of the Conservatory's introductory Core course (he is also a co-author of that course's textbook). He is also on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches doctoral seminars in American music and jazz history and historiography, and serves on the board of the American Studies Certificate Program. His scholarly work has focused primarily on pre-1940s jazz, though his interests include many aspects of current trends in jazz and popular music scholarship and performance, particularly those related to race, gender, class, sexuality and spirituality. He has been on the editorial boards of Black Music Research Journal and The Journal of the Society for American Music. His writing has appeared in Musical Quarterly, Black Music Research Journal, American Music, American Music Review, and other publications. His volume in the MUSA (Music of the United States) series, Earl "Fatha" Hines: Collected Piano Solos, 1928-41, won the Claude Palisca Award from the American Musicological Society in 2007. He contributed an essay on Chicago women pianists in the collection Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, co-edited by Sherrie Tucker and Nichole T. Rustin (Duke). He contributed several entries for the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and Musicians (Oxford). He is completing a book titled Earl Hines and Chicago Jazz. He also continues research on jazz in Brooklyn and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.
Whitney George
Whitney George
Graduate Assistant
Whitney George's music traverses the affective terrain between tragedy and ecstasy, fragility and strength, bringing together romantically delicate intimacy and the spectacular darkness of the macabre. Her operas, staged multimedia works, and chamber music have had both international and domestic premieres. Most recently, George was commissioned by dell'Arte Opera to write Princess Maleine, an adaptation of a Grimms fairytale. She received the 2017 Elebash Award for her orchestration of Miriam Gideon's opera Fortunato, which premiered under George's baton in May 2019. George is the artistic director and conductor of The Curiosity Cabinet, a chamber orchestra formed in 2009. She holds an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts and a master's degree from Brooklyn College, and she is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to her composing and conducting, George teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, works at the Hitchcock Institute of American Studies, and is on the composition faculty for Face the Music.
Lindsey Eckenroth
Lindsey Eckenroth
Graduate Assistant and Managing Editor of American Music Review
Lindsey Eckenroth is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and she holds a B.Mus. in flute performance from New York University as well as an M.A. in musicology from Brooklyn College. Her research interests include American popular music, documentary film studies, music and/as affective labor, rock stardom and celebrity, and psychogeography. Her dissertation, which is in progress, is on representations of work, place, and stardom in rockumentaries. Her writing has been published in Rock Music Studies, American Music Review, and Women & Music.
In addition to her work at HISAM, Eckenroth works as data coordinator at RILM, and she has taught courses in music and American Studies at Brooklyn College since 2010. She is also an active flutist, performing in and around New York City as a member of The Curiosity Cabinet, an interdisciplinary new music ensemble.
