Participant Info
- First Name
- Jayme
- Last Name
- Kurland
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- jaymiku@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- George Mason University
- Website URL
- https://jaymekurland.com/
- Keywords
- Music, Musical Instruments, Museums, Decolonization
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Jayme Kurland is a PhD student in History at George Mason University. Her research interests include 20th century U.S. History with concentrations in labor history, women’s history, and digital public history. Her dissertation project, Instrumental Women, will explore the essential roles women have played in the histories of musical instrument manufacturing. Prior to embarking on her PhD, Jayme was an adjunct professor of ethnomusicology at GMU.
Jayme has spent the last decade working as a music historian in museums and libraries. From 2018-2019, she was the inaugural Robbin Collection Music Cataloger at Georgetown University Libraries, working with a collection of over 900 music manuscripts and letters. From 2013 to 2017, Jayme was the Curatorial Research Fellow in Musical Instruments at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. From 2009 to 2011, Jayme worked at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ as a curatorial assistant.
Jayme is an elected board member of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS), where she serves as the editor of the ethnomusicology section of their blog, Of Note. As a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), she founded and co-chairs the Organology Special Interest Group, and serves as the official AMIS liaison to SEM.
- Recent Publications
- Kurland, Jayme. “Streamlined and Sonic: Harmonicas and Accordions Designed by John Vassos.” Smithsonian Archives of American Art: The Primary Source (blog), April 30, 2019.Kurland, Jayme. “The Sarangi: A Case Study In Colonialist Texts.” American Musical Instrument Society: Of Note (blog), October 31, 2018.Kurland, Jayme. “The Refugee Musician Is Now a Part of Us: Musical Exiles and Mark Brunswick’s National Committee for Refugee Musicians (1938-1943).” Master’s Thesis, Arizona State University, 2015.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @JaymeKurland
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Labor, Libraries & Archives, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Women
