Doctoral Student Fellow
Imperial Junctures: Music, Knowledge, and the West in Hong Kong
Samuel S. Chan (he/him) is a PhD candidate at New York University working on global music studies and Sinophone studies. His dissertation examines cultural institutions in Hong Kong where elites produce musical knowledge amidst the triangulating powers of Britain, China, and the United States. He has presented at the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and International Musicological Society, and has received the Hollace Anne Schafer Memorial Award, Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize, and C.V. Starr Asian/Pacific/American Research Grant for his work on musical hatred and vocal racialization across Asia/America. Read more