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Founding Director Federico Pacchioni

A native of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Federico Pacchioni graduated from the "Istituto Magistrale Immacolata" in Cesena in 1998 and completed his undergraduate studies at La Sapienza in Rome and Prescott College, Arizona, pursuing a unique academic path focused on the development of a humanistic, cross-cultural, and experiential pedagogy. Dr. Pacchioni’s early interests in education went hand-in-hand with his studies in literature and film, eventually leading to his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from Indiana University Bloomington in 2010. After holding posts at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and the Italian Immersion School of Middlebury College in Vermont, he won, in 2012, the Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco Endowed Chair in Italian Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California.

At Chapman University, he teaches interdisciplinary courses in Italian Studies, the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, and the University Honors Program, including several travel courses across the Italian peninsula. From 2012 to 2023, he directed the Italian Studies program, expanding curricular offerings and programming and facilitating the establishment of new endowments dedicated to the study of Italian language and culture. These developments led to the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, of which he became the Founding Director in 2023, the same year he was made Full Professor.

He is the author of 60+ publications, including scores of peer-reviewed articles and eight books. Reviewers have praised his scholarship for its originality of approach and capacity to unveil new cultural and artistic patterns and connections. Among his scholarly volumes, Inspiring Fellini: Literary Collaborations behind the Scenes (University of Toronto Press, 2014) provided the first systematic analysis of Fellini’s cinema as the product of a participatory creative process examining the director’s relationships with influential writers like Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tonino Guerra, and Dino Buzzati. With The Image of the Puppet in Italian Theater, Literature and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), he revealed the deeper cultural associations and transmedia aesthetic potentials of Italy’s puppetry traditions intersecting a variety of artistic fields and new archival findings. He is also the co-author of the mainstay textbook of Italian film studies in the Anglo-American world, A History of Italian Cinema (2nd edition), first conceived by his mentor, the late Peter Bondanella.

Dr. Pacchioni’s scholarly work is rooted in the creative process itself, especially poetic practice, and his creative writings have been published by journals and presses in Italy and North America. Among these are the poetry collections La paura dell’amore (Raffaelli Editore, 2014) and I frutti del mio giardino(Manni Editore, 2022), and a work of lyrical travel prose Southwest of Italy: Stanzas for a Travel Memoir (Guernica World Editions, 2022).

He has lectured nationally and internationally to specialized and general audiences about Italy’s artistic traditions, focusing on their contemporary and global significance. As director of the Ferrucci Institute, Dr. Pacchioni assists faculty and students in interfacing with Italy’s intellectual and creative reservoir and oversees university-wide interdisciplinary collaborations, event series, and community outreach.

Bernardino Telesio Professorship Corrado Confalonieri

Corrado Confalonieri is the first holder of the Bernardino Telesio Endowed Professorship in Italian Studies at Chapman University. He holds two doctoral degrees, a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (Harvard University, 2019) and a dottorato in Italian Literature and History of Italian Language (University of Padua, 2014). He taught and did research both in Italy and in the United States, working as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Wesleyan University (2019-2020), as the Lauro de Bosis Fellow in Italian Studies at Harvard University (2020-2021), and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Parma (2021-2024).

His publications include three monographs (most recentlyTorquato Tasso e il desiderio di unità. La "Gerusalemme liberata" e una nuova teoria dell'epica, Rome, Carocci, 2022, and "Queste spaziose loggie". Architettura e poetica nella tragedia italiana del Cinquecento, Naples, Loffredo, 2022) and more than thirty articles on topics spanning from the Renaissance to 20th century Italian literature. He has edited an anthology of Boiardo’s works (Boiardo, Unicopli, 2018, with J. A. Cavallo), a multidisciplinary book on teaching (Il mestiere d'insegnante, Unicopli, 2013, with A. Musetti), and, together with Nicola Catelli, he is the Co-Editor-in-chief of «Parole rubate. Rivista internazionale di studi sulla citazione/Purloined Letters. An international journal of quotation studies».

He collaborated with Jeffrey Schnapp for FuturPiaggio: Six Italian Lessons on Mobility and Modern Life and translated the book into Italian (2017). His translations also include the Italian edition of The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto by J.A. Cavallo (2017).

Institute Internal Fellows

Emily Carman

Emily Carman is an associate professor of film and media studies in the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, specializing in American cinema and media history and historiography. Her published books include Independent Stardom (University of Texas Press) and Hollywood and the Law (BFI press). Since 2012, she has led a travel course to Bologna, Italy that brings Chapman students to the Il Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival, a leading venue for global film restorations. The development of this course traces back to Dr. Carman's time as an intern at the Cineteca di Bologna's L'immagine Ritrovata film lab and her work for various archival and cultural institutes in Los Angeles (including the Academy Film Archive, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the USC Warner Bros. Archives). Her published work on postwar Italian female film stardom appears in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video and she has presented her research on stardom and film history at the European Network for Cinema Studies at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.

William Cumiford

After receiving his PhD in Latin American history and politics from Texas Tech University in 1977, William Cumiford was a museum curator, writer, and professor of history at several institutions before arriving at Chapman as an administrator and faculty member in 1995. Always devoted first and foremost to teaching, Prof. Cumiford gravitated to teaching courses on the ancient European world, especially Italy. This reorientation largely grew from a desire to fill a gaping hole in the History Department's course offerings in ancient and medieval European history. Between 2007 and 2015 Prof. Cumiford conducted six summer travel courses in Rome and in 2021 developed an upper-division course titled "The Classical World: Ancient Greece and Rome." The course is offered at Chapman University every fall semester.

Nick Gabriel

Nick Gabriel is an Italian American theatre artist and Director of the Theatre Performance program at Chapman. With support from the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, his creative and scholarly activities have been presented at conferences organized by the California Consortium of Italian Studies (CICIS), the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) in Sicily. In 2024, he wrote an English language adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, developed in collaboration with students at Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan, where he serves on the associate faculty. Gabriel’s adaptation was subsequently published by the Pirandello Society of America (PSA) and has recently been performed at Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles, the Italian Cultural Center of San Diego, and Casa Italiana in New York [2025]. He is currently writing an anthology of original Commedia dell’arte scenari. Gabriel's experimental, ethnographical documentary, which is in continuous development, employs a memory loss intervention technique known as "reminiscence therapy" as a means of preserving his own identity, which would otherwise be erased following the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

Christine Fugate

Christine is an Assistant Professor in Documentary and Narrative Film at Chapman University. She is an award-winning producer and director whose work has been screened in theaters and broadcast on channels around the world. She has produced pilots and programming for networks including Discovery, VH1, Disney, A&E, Sundance, Travel Channel, PBS, and HBO. She has also interviewed celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Julie Andrews, and Anne Hathaway. She was named one of Showbiz's Top 100 Directors for unscripted work. Before working in unscripted, she spent years working in feature films as a Senior VP of Creative Affairs at Pacific Rim Productions and Schroeder & Hoffman Productions at Sony Pictures and as a 2nd Unit Director at Five Star Productions in Bangkok, Thailand. Christine filmed in Fiji, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Malawi, and Thailand. Drawing upon a diverse range of professional experiences in Italy, Christine's journey in the film industry is as rich and varied as the narratives she brings to life. During her studies at Facoltà di Magistero in Florence, she pursued research on the cultural and societal implications of the Black Plague of 1348. While working at Sony Pictures, she worked with Luciano Tovoli (The Passenger, Reversal of Fortune) on the film Single White Female. Her recent movie, Queen Moorea, has played in over twenty film festivals, including the Not Film Fest in Santarcangelo di Romagna.

Cristina M. Giannantonio

Cristina M. Giannantonio is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Argyros College of Business and Economics and the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Institutional Effectiveness at Chapman University. She is a Faculty Research Associate in the Thompson Policy Institute on Disability and Autism in the Attallah College of Educational Studies. Her research interests include Neurodiversity in the Workplace, Recruitment Effects, Extreme Leadership, and Image Norms. She is the co-author of Autism in the Workplace: Creating Positive Outcomes for Generation A. She is the co-editor of Extreme Leadership: Leaders, Teams, and Situations Outside the Norm; Generation A: Research on Autism in the Workplace; Generation A: International and Special Populations Autism in the Workplace; and Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship. Prof. Giannantonio teaches courses in Principles of Management, Organizational Behavior, and 'Expeditions: Leadership Lessons from Shackleton and the Polar Explorers,' which integrates historical case studies with contemporary leadership theory. Her upcoming research agenda focuses on two primary areas: first, an investigation of neurodiversity in the workplace across Italy and the broader Mediterranean region, with an emphasis on inclusive organizational practices and cross-cultural management frameworks; and second, a study of extreme leadership models within the Italian-American diasporic context, drawing on theories of identity, resilience, and culturally embedded leadership. Through this work, she aims to contribute to the literature on inclusion, leadership under adversity, and transnational organizational behavior. Born in Washington, D.C., to an Italian father and an Italian American mother, Dr. Giannantonio is a native of Maryland. Her Italian heritage, rooted in the Molise region from which her grandparents emigrated in the 1920s and 1950s, remains a meaningful part of her identity. She earned her B.S., MBA, and Ph.D. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Lia Halloran

Lia Halloran is an artist who often incorporates science and nature into her projects, drawing from scientific materials, historical influences, and identities. Over the past two decades, she has engaged in a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists and architects, including a book of poetry and paintings with Nobel Laureate Dr. Kip Thorne about the "Warped Side of the Universe" (Norton/Liveright, 2023), and she created the artwork for Janna Levin’s book "Black Hole Survival Guide" (Penguin Random House, 2021). Represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally, including a solo show, "Wonder Room," at SACI Gallery in Florence, Italy, inspired by the taxidermy in the Medici-founded museum, La Specola. Halloran has received numerous awards, including an Art Works Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Los Angeles Visual Arts Fellowship, and residencies at Caltech, the Huntington Research Institute in the Visual Culture Program, and the American Museum of Natural History Astrophysics Department in New York. Her work is part of various permanent collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and is featured in permanent installations at the Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York and the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech in Pasadena. She has also served on the Board of Trustees for the art and science organization Fulcrum Arts in Pasadena. Passionate about teaching, Halloran develops interdisciplinary courses that bridge art and science and integrate with her creative scholarly work. At Chapman University, she created the course "The Origins of Art and Science: The Rise and Influence of Alchemy, Anatomy, Machines, and Astronomical Discoveries in Art of the Italian Renaissance," a three-week travel course in Florence, Italy. In this course, students create studio work related to the historical and scientific context of alchemy, chemistry, modern medicine, natural categorization, and astronomy. Lia Halloran is currently the Chair of the Art Department at Chapman University, where she teaches painting and interdisciplinary courses exploring the intersections of art and science. Her work and current projects can be seen at: www.liahalloran.com

Micol Hebron

Professor Micol Hebron is a video and performance artist who has worked out of Los Angeles for the past 15 years. Originally from Northern California, Professor Hebron has studied at UCSD, the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Venice, Italy, and UCLA. She received her MFA in New Genres from UCLA in 2000. She maintains active involvement in the Los Angeles art community in numerous ways. In 1997 she founded Gallery B-12, a cooperative artist-run exhibition and lecture space in Hollywood. In 2002 and 2003 she co-produced the Full Nelson Festival, a showcase of international performance art. In 2004 she founded the LA Art Girls, a collective of 30+ women artists in the LA area. LA Art Girls is a post-graduate critique group dedicated to furthering critical discourse and inspiring continued creative practice amongst professional women artists in Los Angeles. Professor Hebron sits on the editorial board of X-Tra magazine, and she currently writes for Art Forum, Flash Art International, and Arte Contexto. She has an active exhibition practice and has exhibited, performed and lectured throughout the US and in Europe. Her most recent solo show was at Sabina Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, and she will be performing and moderating a panel at the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, Scotland in February of 2008. She is currently working on a book project titled "1 Image 1 Minute", which will be a selection of 1-minute narratives by various art world professionals speaking about individual photographs that are significant to them.

John Hoffmann

John Hoffmann is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and the Humanities at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy. He is the author of Modernism, Aesthetics and Anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 2025) along with a range of articles on twentieth-century culture, modernism, and the history of cinema. He is currently working on two major projects: a volume of essays titled Modernism and Its Continents (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming) and a second book currently titled "Adversarial Images: Conflict as Cultural Practice." The book will study nonfiction filmmaking, especially newsreels, during and after the second World War in Italy, Germany and Japan. A fluent Italian speaker and great appassionato of the Italian language, Dr. Hoffmann worked with the Simmetria Institute on book restoration projects while living in the Portuense neighborhood of Rome in 2023. He has also attended the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, and the Venice Biennale.

Shira Klein

Shira Klein is associate professor of History at Chapman University, specializing in Italian Jewish history. Her book Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism (Cambridge University Press), selected as finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, uncovers the Italian Jewish experience from the late nineteenth century to the Holocaust and postwar years. Her next book project examines Italian Jews’ role in Italy’s African empire, with a focus on Libya and Ethiopia. Klein has received support from multiple sources, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Barbieri Foundation for Modern Italy, and the USC Shoah Foundation. Additionally, Shira researches historical disinformation on Wikipedia, and has overseen Wikipedia editing by 147 students who have added a total of 58,000 words to Wikipedia articles, including on Italian history. At Chapman, Dr. Klein teaches Jewish history, modern Europe –including Italy, and migration history.

Andrea Molle

Andrea Molle, Ph.D., FRAS, is an Assistant Professor in Political science and Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society at Chapman University (USA). From 2006 to 2008, he was JSPS Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya, Japan). His current research focuses on religion, political violence, and international relations. Specific research interests related to Italy include monitoring the diffusion of militant conspiracy theories, terrorist groups, and political extremism. A second area of research pertains to analyzing Italian foreign and defense policy, focusing on non-state actors and private military companies. He has conducted research for the IRAD (Research and Analysis Institute), a branch of the Italian Ministry of Defence.

Marco Panza

Marco Panza is a Full Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University. He is an internationally recognized specialist in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, the author of several papers and books translated into many languages, and the director of the graduate program in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Physics. Bornin Varese (Lombardia) he attended Università degli Studi di Milano Statale and received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After serving as Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva, he became Associate Professor at the Nantes Université, France, and then a Research Professor at the CNRS, attached to the universities of Partis 7 and Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne. In 2000 he received the French Habilitation à Diriger Des Recherche, the higher degree in the European Academic System. He has been at Chapman since2016, first as a Presidential Fellow and then as Full Professor. He also taught at UNAM in Mexico City, Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University. Despite his long time abroad, he conserved professional and cultural links with Italy, where he regularly returns. He collaborates with many Italian scholars in different universities in his domains of expertise; among such collaborations is the collaboration at the establishment of FilMat, the Italian network for mathematics philosophers, and he is an active member of the Italian Society of History of Mathematics (SIMS).

Thomas Piechota

Dr. Thomas C. Piechota is a Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy at Chapman University, Co-Director of the Grand Challenges Initiative, and Interim Dean of Fowler School of Engineering. Dr. Piechota received his B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1989 from Northern Arizona University, his M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1993 from UCLA, and his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1997 from UCLA. Dr. Piechota has been recognized for his efforts in teaching and research in water resources, hydrology and climate change, and as an administrator where he has helped advance the research enterprise. In 2003, Dr. Piechota received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for the project, "Improved Hydrologic Drought Forecasting Using Climate Information." From 2008-2013, Dr. Piechota was the Co-PI on a $20 million National Science Foundation funded studies on climate change impacts in Nevada. Dr. Piechota was an invited Lead Author on the Southwest Chapter of the National Climate Assessment in 2013. At Chapman, Dr. Piechota was the inaugural Vice President for Research and helped expand the research from 2016 - 2021 with notable recognition including Carnegie R2 (High Research Activity) designation in December 2018 and a tripling of research expenditures from 2016 to 2021. He is currently conducting research on the impacts of climate change on water resources and society of northern Italy. In 2022, he was co-author on the paper “Atlantic Ocean Variability and European Alps Winter Precipitation” with colleagues at the University of Trento and University of Alabama. In addition, he will be offering a travel course on “Climate, Water and Society of Northern Italy.”

Anuradha Prakash

Anuradha Prakash is Professor of food science at Chapman University and a Fellow of the Food System Leadership Institute. She is an expert on the use of irradiation to enhance food safety and shelf-life, and on irradiation’s potential to reduce the threat posed by invasive pests and eliminate global trade barriers. Dr. Prakash teaches Food Processing, Food Product Development, and an international travel course titled Food, Diet, and Culture. Together with Italian Studies faculty, she led groups of students to Italy to explore the peninsula’s food system from farm to fork. Dr. Prakash is currently expanding her research to explore the influence of science and technology on traditional Italian methods of food production.

Daniele C. Struppa

Daniele C. Struppa is the Donald Bren Presidential Chair in Mathematics at Chapman University, where he also served as the institution’s thirteenth president from 2016-2025. Dr. Struppa graduated from the Liceo Classico “Berchet” in Milano in 1974 and received his Laurea in mathematics from the University of Milano in 1977. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 1981, Dr. Struppa was Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) at the University of Milano first and then at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In 1987 he became Full Professor (Professore Ordinario) at the University of Calabria, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Mathematics. In 1989 he became a Full Professor and Founding Director of the Center for the Applications of Mathematics at George Mason University. At George Mason, Dr. Struppa served as Chairman of the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1994 till 1996, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies from 1996 to 1997, and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1997 to 2006, when he joined Chapman as Provost, a position he held until 2016. Dr. Struppa has received several honors, including the Bartolozzi Prize of the Italian Mathematical Union (1981), the Matsumae Foundation Medal (1987), the Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences (2017), and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2018). Dr. Struppa has published more than 200 peer reviewed articles and books. His research is mostly in the area of Hypercomplex Analysis, and of Fourier Analysis, and its applications to differential equations, and quantum mechanics. He has authored several papers on the history of Italian mathematics (with special attention for the twentieth century), and has recently written a few articles about the intersections between mathematics and special moment in Italian culture, specifically on the birth of projective geometry in the Italian Renaissance painters, the origins of modern accounting in the work of Fra Luca Pacioli, and the life and mathematical contributions of Leonardo Fibonacci.

Louise Thomas

Louise Thomas joined Chapman University as Director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts and presently serves as Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Education and Student Success. Born in Ireland, she pursued music studies at Trinity College Dublin and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, where her training integrated rigorous performance practice with scholarly inquiry. An internationally active pianist, Dr. Thomas has performed across Europe, North America, and Asia at major concert venues, garnering critical recognition as a prize-winner at the Annual International Music Competition and Festival in Ibla-Ragusa, Sicily, and the International Piano Competition, Città di Senigallia. Her faculty appointments include distinguished summer programs such as La Fabbrica in Tuscany, where she has contributed to the cultivation of emerging artists within cross-cultural and interdisciplinary frameworks. Her research engages with the performance of art song as a site of intertextual dialogue, with recent work examining the processes and aesthetics involved in the musicalization of Italian poetry. This inquiry reflects a broader commitment to integrating literary analysis, linguistic nuance, and performance-based methodologies. In addition to her scholarly activities, Dr. Thomas maintains an active collaborative piano career, most notably with violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn, who performs on the legendary “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius, and she appears frequently in chamber music and contemporary music programs across the United States and internationally.

Justin Walsh

Justin Walsh is professor of art history, archaeology, and space studies in the Department of Art. He specializes in Mediterranean archaeology, particularly of ancient intercultural encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. He has been traveling to Italy for study and research since 1996, was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 2003-2004, taught at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome in 2005-2006, and has worked extensively at archaeological sites in Basilicata and Sicily. Justin has also led numerous summer study abroad programs to Rome. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the foundation of the classical city of Morgantina (province of Enna, Sicily). This work led to several articles about how ancient consumers expressed preferences for imported goods. His teaching at Chapman covers not only ancient Etruria and Rome, but medieval Italy as well. The phenomenon of looting for art treasures at Morgantina has led him to focus on cultural heritage protection, including an innovative seminar for advanced undergraduates in Chapman’s art history program, and consulting with US law enforcement and museums on the repatriation of Italian cultural objects. Most recently, he has taken on a new role as a global leader in the field of space archaeology, serving as co-PI of the multiple award-winning International Space Station Archaeological Project. This work has led to connections with Italian astronauts and major Italian space companies. In 2024, Justin was named as a member of the Explorers Club 50 class of 2024, one of “50 remarkable explorers changing the world and extending the meaning of exploration.” He has also been a Fulbright Fellow and Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol.

Honorary Fellows

Jack Horner

Jack Horner is a severely dyslexic dinosaur paleontologist who spent 7 years at the University of Montana without receiving a degree. He has since been awarded 4 honorary doctorates. He was a research scientist at Princeton University for 7 years, a Regent’s Professor at Montana State University for 34 years, and has been a Presidential Fellow at Chapman for the past 8 years. Jack is a MacArthur Fellow, and a National Geographic Explorer, and has more than 320 publications including a dozen books. He was the technical advisor for the first 6 installments of the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movie Franchise. Jack was also the Honorary President of the Italian Association of Paleontology and Paleoart (APPI) from 2009 until 2019. Jack does research in Montana, Mongolia, and Italy.

Giulio Ongaro

Giulio Ongaro, a native of Venice, Italy, began his college studies at the Università degli Studi di Venezia, majoring in business. After his military service, he moved to the United States, where he received a B.M. degree in flute performance from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a dissertation on music at the Venetian church of St. Mark’s in the 16th century. His research is particularly centered on questions such as the mutual influence of society and the arts, the social and political context for the production and performance of music, the business of music in Early Modern Europe, music printing, musical instruments in the 16th century, and the relationship of words and music. He has published on these topics in scholarly journals in the US and in Europe, and he is the author or co-author of nine articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the standard reference work in music. For his research he has received grants from the Martha B. Rockefeller Fund for Music, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, among others. He taught music history and musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Delaware, before moving to California in 1991 to take a position on the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. He remained at USC from 1991 to 2009, serving also as Chair of the Department of Musicology, and later as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs for the Thornton School. From 2009 to 2015 he was Dean of the Conservatory and Professor of Music at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, where he also supervised the Brubeck Institute. He served as Dean of the College of Performing Arts and the Bertea Family Chair in Music at Chapman University until 2024.