She earned her doctorate in musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016 and was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Riverside. A 20/21st-century specialist, much of her research focuses on new music and concert culture after 1989. Her current work includes a study of post-Cold War music and the globalized politics of identity, and an ongoing investigation into the intersections of classical music, labor, class, and neoliberalism. She is the co-founder of the “Musicology and the Present” conference series. Andrea is also a former percussionist and arts administrator.