Co-author, “Music Structuring Animation: The Role of Chopin’s First Ballade in the
Series Finale of Your Lie in April.” Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung 19. 2025.
Lead author, “Capturing the Zeitgeist: Preserving American Music and Culture in the
Mashups of DJ Earworm.” Journal of the Society for American Music. 2023.
Lead author, Review of Demystifying Scriabin. Music Theory Online 29, no. 2. 2023.
Lead author, “Perceiving the Mosaic: Form in the Mashups of DJ Earworm.” Music Theory Spectrum 43, no. 1: pp. 9-42. 2021.
Sole author, “Scriabin’s Transition from Tonality: Chord Functions and Key Relationships”
in Mining the Gap: Musics with and after tonality. Routledge Publishing. 2021.
Sole author, “(Post-)Tonal Key Relationships in Scriabin’s Late Music,” Music Analysis 36, No. 3. 2017.
Co-author, Freemusicdictations.net. 2021. Online textbook for KSU Aural Skills courses,
which was funded by the USG Textbook Transformation Grant (peer-reviewed) in 2017
with a follow-up enhancement grant in 2021 to add sight-singing materials.
Grants
Co-author, 2025 USG Continuous Improvment Grant for Freemusicdictations.net. - $5,300
Doubled sight-singing excerpts
Co-author, 2020 USG Continuous Improvment Grant for Freemusicdictations.net. - $5,300
Completed a large module of sight-singing excerpts
Principal investigator, 2017 USG Transformation Grant for Freemusicdictations.net
- $10,800
Completed a series of dictations and instruction videos for teaching and assessing
music transcription
Awards
2026 Outstanding Teaching Award for Kennesaw State University – $10,000
2026 Outstanding Teaching Awards for the Geer College of the Arts – $1,000
2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Program – $4,000
2025 Research Mentoring Award for the Geer College of the Arts – $1,000 First-Year
Scholars Program (3 students): Analyzing the Use and Structure of Multi-Part B Sections
in Recent Popular Music – $10,000
2021 College of the Arts Early Achievement Award - $1,000
2018 John C. Salerno Prize for Research Achivement - $1,000
The decision was made by an anonymous jury of KSU faculty for the inaugural John C.
Salerno Memorial Symposium, a peer-reviewed conference showcasing research across
every department at KSU
