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