Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Music, GSAS
The Biopolitics of Voice: Science and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America
Derek Baron (they/them) is a PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology in the Music Department of NYU’s Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences. Their dissertation project explores the voice as an object of scientific and political discourse in early America, revealing how the voice emerged as a powerful symbolic vehicle for the articulation of racialized subjectivity and liberal citizenship. In addition to their scholarly work, Derek is an artist working with music and audio, hosts a bimonthly radio show on Montez Press Radio, and co-operates the record label Reading Group.