Adjunct Professor of Musicology
Piper Foulon (she/her) is a PhD candidate in historical musicology at the University of Michigan. She holds bachelor's degrees in history and music from Pacific Lutheran University, where she completed thesis projects on the incidental music of The Bedbug by Dmitri Shostakovich and on architectural conservation during the Siege of Leningrad. Her current research focuses on defining the musical uncanny in the context of the Russian avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century. She has given papers at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and at City University's Annual Graduate Students in Music Conference. She will give a paper at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Annual Conference in Fall 2025. In her spare time, Piper helms a music project, Love Visa, which performs frequently in Seattle and Tacoma.