He received his Ph.D. in Musicology from Harvard University in May 2011. Dr. Ceriani earned his degree in saxophone at the Conservatory of Bologna in his native Italy in 1999 and his Laurea (cum laude) at the University of Florence in 2003. Before embarking on his graduate studies, he was a visiting student at the University of Saint-Denis, Paris 8 (1997-1998) and at Smith College (2001-2002), and he worked as an intern librarian at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2000). Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Dr. Ceriani also performed extensively as a saxophone player in Italy, France, and the United States. Prior to working at Rowan, he spent two years (2011-13) as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Music at Columbia University.