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Music research
The Small Band Problem: Exploring the challenges faced by directors of small- and limited-instrumentation wind bands
2025 | Completed for Graduate Research class
To be presented at 2026 New England Band Directors Institute, Keene, NH
Condensed abstract: This research explores the degree to which band directors of small wind ensembles address the challenges of section balance, repertoire selection, and ensemble culture due to band size or missing instrumentation, compared to larger groups. Potential interventions that directors, composers, and administrators can implement will be discussed as well.
"Command Me To Be Well": An exploration of religious imagery in Hozier's music
2023 | Completed for Graduate Musicology Seminar
Winner of 2024 URI Writing Award, Graduate Research/Scholarly division
Summary: This research examines the use of Hozier's use of religious imagery and political commentary in his music, and aims to create a sort of line of succession that connects Hozier's music to the 20th-century singer-songwriter movement, Renaissance madrigals, and Medieval troubadour song. By drawing on his culturally Roman Catholic upbringing and repurposing traditional images from Christianity as metaphors for romance and sex, Hozier illustrates a kind of consummate love that would be considered corrupt by Catholic teaching, yet all the more sensual because of its break with traditional views of love and faith.
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Diversity and Inclusion Badge
2026 | University of Rhode Island
Human Subject Research, Group 1 – basic course
2025 | Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)
Secondary Grades Mathematics Teacher (Gr. 7-12)
Since 2021 | Rhode Island Department of Education
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