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Theater, Performance, and Music History

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ambereen Dadabhoy
Harvey Mudd College
2
Joel Roberts
University of Memphis
3
Will Silvers
Phillips Academy
4
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
King's College London
5
Reuben Phillips
Honeywell (United Kingdom)
6
Gundula Kreuzer
Yale University
7
Timothy Melley
Brookings Institution
8
Marquita De Jesus
Unknown
9
Kristin Moriah
Queen's University
10
Josh Kruchten
Unknown

Rising Stars Papers

1
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Modern Language Quarterly|2024
56 cit.
2
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
The Black Scholar|2025
21 cit.
3
Archipelagic Memory and Indian Ocean Literary Studies: An Introduction
Monsoon|2024
2 cit.
4
Creolizing Archipelagic Intimacies: Remembering India and Vietnam via Pondicherry
Verge Studies in Global Asias|2025
1 cit.
5
Do You Remember? Celebrating 50 Years of Earth, Wind & Fire
Music Reference Services Quarterly|2024
0 cit.
6
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector by Sarah Jane Nelson (review)
The Journal of Southern History|2024
0 cit.
7
On Archipelagic Memory: A Conversation with Michael Rothberg and Vijaya Teelock
Monsoon|2024
0 cit.
8
Just Keep Dancing: Reclaiming African American Identity through Dance Performance
Pennsylvania communication annual.|2024
0 cit.
9
Styling Subversion
Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism|2024
0 cit.
10
<i>Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century: Parallel and Intersecting Patterns of Reception</i>, by Simon P. Keefe
Journal of the American Musicological Society|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
David Gere
George Institute for Global Health
2
Yawen Zhao
Shaanxi Normal University
3
Wenfeng Zhao
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
4
Ellie M. Hisama
Columbia University
5
Pauline Mateveke
University of Zimbabwe
6
Gina Arnold
University of San Francisco
7
Tim Maughan
University of Oxford
8
Elizabeth L. Wollman
Baruch College
9
Amy Coddington
Amherst College
10
Masi Asare
Northwestern University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Sustainable Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage with AI: Cantonese Opera Singing Genre Classification Based on CoGCNet Model in China
Sustainability|2022
45 cit.
2
A Redactable Blockchain-Based Data Management Scheme for Agricultural Product Traceability
Sensors|2024
16 cit.
3
De novo design of protein condensation inhibitors by targeting an allosteric site of cGAS
Nature Communications|2025
15 cit.
4
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities
Journal of African Cultural Studies|2022
7 cit.
5
Cache Optimization Methods Involving Node and Content Sharding of Blockchain in Internet of Vehicles
Electronics|2024
2 cit.
6
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. By Daphne A. Brooks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021; 608 pp.; illustrations. $39.95 paper, e-book available.
TDR/The Drama Review|2022
0 cit.
7
<i>Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South</i> By Regina N. Bradley. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Journal of the Society for American Music|2023
0 cit.
8
Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures, Sexton Jamie (2023)
The Soundtrack|2022
0 cit.
9
Introduction-What’s humanities got to do with it? Locating the node between humanities and democracy in Africa
African Journal of Inclusive Societies|2023
0 cit.
10
Sondheim’s vamps and Africanist musical practice
Studies in Musical Theatre|2023
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John Hutnyk
Ton Duc Thang University
2
Nicholas Cook
University of Cambridge
3
Holger Schramm
University of Würzburg
4
Matthias Höfer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
5
Alan Lomax
Queen's University
6
Lewis Porter
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
7
Stephanie Jordan
University of Roehampton
8
Charles W. Ostrom
Michigan State University
9
Kathleen Williams
University of Tasmania
10
Curtis Price
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Time-Series Analysis: Regression Techniques.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1980
499 cit.
2
The President and the Political Use of Force
American Political Science Review|1986
464 cit.
3
Promise and Performance: A Dynamic Model of Presidential Popularity
American Political Science Review|1985
414 cit.
4
Preliminary Assessment of the Occurrence and Possible Sources of MTBE in Groundwater in the United States, 1993−1994
Environmental Science & Technology|1996
408 cit.
5
Effects of digital elevation model map scale and data resolution on a topography‐based watershed model
Water Resources Research|1994
398 cit.
6
Folk Song Style and Culture
Journal of American Folklore|1969
357 cit.
7
A Guide to Musical Analysis
Journal of Music Theory|1988
341 cit.
8
Dis-orienting rhythms: the politics of the new Asian dance music
Choice Reviews Online|1997
314 cit.
9
Analysing Musical Multimedia
American Music|2001
292 cit.
10
The PSI-Process Scales. A new measure to assess the intensity and breadth of parasocial processes
Communications|2008
292 cit.

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