Our Team

Our Editors:

Anna Rose Nelson (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in music theory at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include music theoretical terminology, sketch studies, modernist music (particularly string quartets), grunge and psychedelic rock aesthetics and history, and critical theory. Anna also serves as a steward for the campus graduate-student union (GEO 3550) and on the editorial board of SMT-Pod.

Michaela Franzen (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate in historical musicology at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include twentieth-century Russian music, music and migration, and sound studies. Her dissertation examines Sergei Prokofiev’s émigré period, rejecting former narratives of an “inevitable” Soviet return and querying the role of his Parisian context in his personal and compositional transformation, and the extent to which he found professional success in the period.

Kelly Hoppenjans (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in musicology at the University of Michigan and a singer-songwriter. Her research interests include pop music, technology, and DIY musicianship.

Cecilia Hiros