Kiri Miller
Assistant Professor:
Department of Music; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
Phone: +1 401 863 1078
Kiri_Miller@brown.edu
Biography
Kiri Miller is an ethnomusicologist whose work focuses on music of the Americas and ethnographic approaches to new technological practices. Her current research topics are videogame music and Sacred Harp/shape-note singing. She holds the Ph.D. in music from Harvard University and completed a Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta. Courses she has taught or will soon be teaching include Latino Diaspora Music, Musical Youth Cultures, Diaspora Music in the Americas, Music and Technoculture, Ethnography of Popular Music, "World Music" in Theory and Practice, Sacred Harp/Shape-Note Singing, and upper-level courses on ethnographic theory and method in ethnomusicology.
Awards
Strothman Faculty Research Award, Brown University (2009-10)
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta (2005-07)
Richard S. Hill Award, Music Library Association (for the article "First Sing the Notes") (2005)
Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship (2004-05)
Richard F. French Fellowship, Harvard University Music Department (2004-05)
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2003)
Lehman Merit Fellowship, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2003-04)
William Mitch Scholarship, Harvard University (2001-02)
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (2000-01)
Affiliations
Society for Ethnomusicology (Popular Music Section, Gender and Sexualities Taskforce, Historical Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group)
Society for American Music
American Studies Association
International Association for the Study of Popular Music (U.S. branch) (Popular Music Pedagogy Interest Group)
American Musicological Society
Teaching
My teaching interests include virtual performance, youth culture, diaspora music, American music, music & technology, ethnographic theory & method, and media reception.
