Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of Oxford, 2018 – ; DPhil in Music, awaiting conferral, St Hilda’s College
• Supervisor: Dr Suzanne Aspden, Associate Professor of Music
• Thesis: “Networks and networking as a source of musical success and advancement: Case studies of Padre Martini and his circle”
o Apply economic and sociological modelling and theories to music history
o Winner of the Laura Bassi Scholarship, summer 2022
• Book grant, St Hilda’s College, Hilary Term 2020
• Travel, study, research grant, St Hilda’s College, 2019 – 2021
• Joan Conway Fund, Conway Scholarship, 2019 – 2020
• Graduate music tuition grant, St Hilda’s College, 2018 – 2021
Columbia University, New York, NY; Master of Arts (History and Literature), 2015
• Place of study: Reid Hall, Paris, France, 2014 – 2015
• Co-enrolled at École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France, &
• École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
• Full departmental fellowship
• Supervisor: Dr Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Professor of Music at Paris Sorbonne – Université de Paris
Washburn University, Topeka, KS, 2014; Bachelor of Arts (History and French); Bachelor of Music Performance (Viola), Magna cum Laude
• Study abroad: Université Laval, Québec City, Canada, Summer 2014
• Modern Language Department Scholar, Spring 2014
• History Department Scholar, 2013 – 2014
• Recipient of the Linda Wohl-Stoltenberg Scholarship
• Full departmental music scholarship
• President’s List, 4.0 GPA, Spring 2011, Fall 20212, Spring 2014; Dean’s List, 2008 – 2014; Honors Program
• Supervisor: opera librettist Dr Charles Anthony (Tony) Silvestri, Lecturer
London Film School Directors’ Workshop with Udayan Prasad, 2022
• Recipient of Oxford University’s Cameron Mackintosh Drama Fund grant
Fellowships and awards
Distinguished Fellow, Richmond Arts Institute, 2023 (12-month fellowship)
Fulbright Student Grant semi-finalist, 2021, 2022, 2023
Languages
English, native speaker
French, (Level 5), Université Laval École des langues
German, (B2.2), Oxford University Language Centre
• Goethe Institut (levels A1 – B1.1)
• Recipient of Oxford Music Faculty funding
Italian, (Level 6), Oxford University Language Centre
• Recipient of grant to attend the Middlebury School of Languages – Italian 2018
• Recipient of Oxford Music Faculty funding and St Hilda’s College language grant
Japanese, (Level 2), Oxford University Language Centre
Korean, (Level 1, in progress), SOAS-London Language Centre
Russian (Level 1, in progress), Oxford University Language Centre
Latin, speaking, reading
• Classical, Ecclesiastical, and Medieval
Ancient Greek (Koine), writing, speaking, reading
Professional Experience
Strategy Consultant, University of Oxford, 2023
Associate consultant, Full-Switch consultancy, 2023
LERU Doctoral Summer School – The Future of the University, Utrecht 2022
- Sent by Oxford University as one of their delegates
Assistant director (apprentice), Berlin Opera Academy, July – August 2021
Personal assistant (temporary), Smock Media, December 2020 – January 2021
- Act as assistant editor on film projects
Postgraduate Research Assistant, Jesus College, Oxford University, April 2019 – 2022
Freelance writer, Notes on Liberty, digital journal and blog, Summer 2018 – present
- Articles republished by RealClearEducation and RealClearPolicy
Austrian Economics Center – Vienna, Austria
- Writer, commentator on popular culture and economics, 2022 – present
- Intern, Spring 2018
- Affiliated digital publication Values4Europe, Summer 2018 – closure
- Presenter, Free Market Roadshow annual conference
- London, 2020
- Thessaloniki, 2021
Moving Picture Institute
- Fellow, Theory and Fundamentals of Screenwriting, 2023
- Fellow, Picturecraft, 2022, trained in cinematography
- Fellow, Mindful Editor 5.0, 2020, trained in film editing to ACE standards
- Intern (research capacity), Smock Media
- Remote work; trained in film research, editing, and producing
- Short film, Moving Violation, Production Coordinator
- MPI Summit, training event, Los Angeles, CA, June 2017
Orchestra Fellow, Centre College, Spring 2016; Spring 2017 – Fall 2017
Research Intern, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Spring 2017 – Fall 2017
Intern, First Amendment Partnership, Fall 2016
- Sponsored by the Charles Koch Institute’s Koch Interns Program (KIP)
Music librarian, International Conductors’ Festival – Danville, May 2016 – July 2016
Notable Performances
Oxford Opera Society, Orfeo ed Euridice, director, June 2019 (canceled)
• Co-sponsored by Oxford Music Society
Guest musician, Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra, July 2016
Washburn University Orchestra, accompanying the band KANSAS, Album There’s Know Place Like Home, CD and DVD, released Spring 2009
Film work
Director, Maestra (working title; in development), documentary
Director, Unicorn masquerade (post-production), short film, 2022
Assistant Director, Dusklands, short film, 2020
Producer, Tequila, Mysticism, Piety, short film, 2020
• Sponsored by the Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation
Director, One Day: The Music Faculty Library, short documentary, 2019
• Also co-Director of Photography and Producer
Production designer, Out of the Blue: Leave the Door Open, 2021
• Music video charity fundraiser for the Barnardo’s charity in Oxford
• Sponsored by Oxford University’s a capella ensemble Out of the Blue and OUFF
Production Coordinator, Moving Violation, short film, 2017
• Sponsored internship through the Moving Picture Institute
Executive Producer, The Pacifist, short film, 2020
• Sponsored by the Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation
Executive Producer, Mila, short film, 2020
• Sponsored by the Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation
Executive Producer, All’s Fair in Vanity, short film, 2020
• Sponsored by the Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation
Executive Producer, Malila, short film, 2020
• Sponsored by the Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation
Executive Producer, Breath from the Sky, short film, 2020
• Sponsored by the Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation
Self, American Songwriter, 2010
• Documentary produced and directed by Michael Altman
Professional Affiliations
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2022
• Presenter, annual conference 2023
International Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies, 2022
• Presenter, international congress, Singapore, 2023
Oxford University Faculty of Music, Graduate Research and Careers Advice Seminars
• Presenter, January 2020 – presented current thesis research and received peer feedback
Royal Musical Association
Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), writer-composer
American Musicological Society
• Annual conference, 2017, 2022
• Recipient of AMS travel grant, 2022
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Biennial national conference,
• Presenter, Albuquerque, NM, 2014
Kansas Association of Historians, Annual conference
• Presenter, Topeka, KS, 2013
• Presenter, Salina, KS, 2012
Apeiron, annual academic symposium, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
• Presenter, 2014
Selection of published articles
“An aspirational paradox” (2020), Notes on Liberty blog
• Republished by RealClearPolicy and Rational Review News Digest
“’Crazy Rich Asians’ shows the problem with inequality propaganda” (2019), AEC blog
• Number 1 most read on the blog for 2019
“Contempt for capitalism” (2019), Notes on Liberty
• Picked up by Real Clear Policy
“How anti-trust policy hurts the little guy” (2019), AEC blog
• Republished by the Mises Institute
“Consumerism? Why people spend on ‘useless’ status symbols” (2019), AEC blog
• Republished by the Mises Institute
“Kenya’s fishing crisis reminds us of the benefits of free trade” (2019), AEC blog
• Republished by the Mises Institute
“Hurting the poor by standing in the way of technological progress” (2018), AEC blog
• Republished by the Cobden Centre
“The State and education – Part IV: Conclusion” (2018), Notes on Liberty
• Picked up by Real Clear Education
“Does ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Mean ‘Cultural Aggression’” (2018) digital journal The Market for Ideas
Clubs and Societies
The Oxford Union, Life member
Oxford Hayek Society, Life member
• General committee, December 2019 – 2022
Oxford Pistol Club, Life member
• Captain, 2021 – 2022
• Records officer, February 2019 – February 2020
• Ladies’ Captain, February 2020 – 2021
Oxford University Film Foundation, October 2019 – 2022
• Vice-President, 2021 – 2022
• Representative for St Hilda’s College, 2019 – 2020
• Technical Officer, 2020 – 2021
• Executive producer for all OUFF films, 2020 – 2021
The Linacre School of Defence
• Classical and historic fencing
• Trained in small sword, spadroon, and backsword