Education
PhD, Brandeis University
BM, University of Hartford
Sarah Caissie Provost (PhD in Musicology) specializes in American music with a focus on early jazz and its relationships to gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. She teaches courses in American music, European concert music, 20th century music, and research and writing in music. Previously, she was an Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of North Florida, where she directed the Master of Music program.
She has published and presented research on pianist Mary Lou Williams, trumpeters Valaida Snow and Ziggy Elman, clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, and bandleader Paul Whiteman. Her work on past and current barriers to jazz performance for women and non-gender-conforming musicians appears in the 2022 volume The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender. Recently, she has expanded her research interests to include ecomusicology; her paper, “Scoring Climate Change: Music and Popular Science Communication,” appears in the volume Music and Climate Change: Artistic Action in Times of Crisis. She has also presented work on the role of music in prison reform advocacy. She has received grants from Williams College, Rutgers University, and the University of North Florida in support of her research.
- HLM 213 • Classical through Contemporary Survey
- HLM 462/562 • History of Music in America
- HLM 463/563 • Music Literature of the Twentieth Century
- HLM 615 • ProSeminar in Music History
- HLM 670 • Film Music