He earned a PhD in Musicology and a Certificate in Screen Arts and Cultures from the University of Michigan, and his dissertation received the Society for American Music's Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award. His published research has explored memorialization in John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, narrative functions in Bernard Herrmann’s score to Vertigo, and collage in Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, and he is currently developing a book on country music scores in 1970s films. Assistant Professor of Music, Denison University Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak