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Jason Geary
Acting Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Musicology
jgeary@umich.edu
734-763-5634
Office: 602 BMT
Jason Geary received his Ph.D. in Musicology from Yale University in 2004 with a dissertation on Mendelssohn’s incidental music to Greek tragedy. He also holds an MA from the University of Michigan and a degree in Piano Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Professor Geary has been the recipient of several research grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright grant to conduct dissertation research in Berlin. He has presented papers at national and international conferences in the United States, Europe, and Australia, and recently delivered a series of lectures in China. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Musicology, the Journal of Musicological Research, and in collections of essays published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Oxford University Press, and Ashgate Press. Professor Geary was recently awarded a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for work on his current book project, The Politics of Appropriation: German Romantic Music and the Ancient Greek Legacy, which expands on his research into the music of Mendelssohn and Wagner and is to be published by Oxford University Press. An accomplished pianist, his scholarly interests also extend to the keyboard music of the nineteenth century, particularly that of Mendelssohn and Schumann.
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