About the Sonic Constellations Team
Jillian Rogers, the PI for Sonic Constellations, is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. Jill’s research centers on music and sound as embodied phenomena, and, in particular, on relationships between music/ sound and how people have historically experienced and coped with trauma. Her interests in French modernism, affect and psychoanalytic theory, and sound studies, as well as trauma studies and performance studies coalesce in her book Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars (2021). Jill organized the online international conference, “Music, Sound, and Trauma Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” at IU in February 2021. Jill is also a founding researcher for the Sonic Histories of Cork City Project – a digital humanities public history project that investigates what Cork, Ireland may have sounded like in the city’s rich, historical past.
Freja Cole is a second year MA Musicology and MLS student at Indiana University. She received her BM in flute performance and music education from McNeese State University in 2020. Her recent research interests include contemporary theme park design, performances of gender in musical theatre, and musico-poetic cryptograms. Freja works as a grant writing assistant at the Indiana University Lilly Library researching sustainable digital exhibition practices, curatorial roles, and outreach and engagement activities in rare books libraries. Her library and information science interests include ontology development for non-traditional resources, and she is currently creating a metadata schema for standard playing card games. In her spare time, Freja enjoys reading science fiction, wiping out on her roller skates, and playing cards.
Jacqueline Fortier is a Ph.D. student in musicology at Indiana University. She is originally from Quebec City, Canada. She studied at Laval University where she received a B.A. in Musicology (2017) as well an M.A. in Musicology (2019), under the direction of Dr. Serge Lacasse. Her master’s thesis focused on an analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s flow as it relates to narratives in his 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly. In 2018, she was awarded the OICRM Master’s Research grant. She presented her work at the 2019 IASMP-Canada conference. Her current research interests include issues of gender and sexuality in popular music.
Kate Hamori is currently pursuing an MA in musicology and an MLS with a specialization in music librarianship at Indiana University. A graduate of the University of Indianapolis, her recent musicological work has focused on intersections of cultural trauma, girlhood, and sonic violence mediated by sound and popular music on social media platforms. In addition to her musicological studies, Kate works as a cataloging assistant at Cook Music Library, a research assistant in the Jacobs musicology department, and a grader in the Music in General Studies department. A pianist and soprano, Kate is also a member of NOTUS, IU’s contemporary vocal ensemble.
Mingfei Li is currently a second-year PhD student in Musicology at Indiana University. Her primary research interests are late-eighteenth-century operas and instrumental improvisation. Her other interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century East Asian and Asian American music, the intersection of East Asian philosophies and music, and Chinese poetic chanting. As a research assistant, she is currently working on Sonic Constellations, an IDAH project under Dr. Jillian Rogers. Li is a recipient of the Jacobs Doctoral Fellowship at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she has obtained a Master of Music degree and a Performer Diploma in Piano Performance. During her graduate studies in Piano Performance, Li was a recipient of a full scholarship, Artistic Excellence Award, Irving & Lena Lo Scholarship, and the appointment as an Associate Instructor of Piano.