Advisory Board and Team
Associate Director, NYU Center for the Humanities
Leading with curiosity and joy, Miki Kaneda’s work bridges higher education with the public humanities. Prior to NYU, Miki worked on administration and program development at the Museum of Modern Art and Red Hook Art Project, grounding her experience in both large cultural institutions and grassroots education.
With a PhD in Music, Miki has taught courses on musical cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries and global popular music at Boston University, Columbia, and Harvard. Her book Transpacific Experiments: Intermedia Art and Music in 1960s Japan is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press in 2026. Her writing spans topics from opera and Beethoven to sound art, and has appeared in publications including the SF Chronicle, Jazz and Culture, The Journal of Musicology, ASAP/Journal, and post.moma.org, where she was a founding co-editor.