Amanda Hsieh

Dr. Amanda Hsieh is an Assistant Professor of Musicology in the Department of Music at Durham University. Her research examines the intersection of music and politics, with a particular focus on global music history and transnational exchanges between East Asia and Central/Western Europe during the 19th-20th centuries.

Her current book project, 'The Japanese Empire's German Art Music, 1910–1945', investigates musico-political networks connecting Germany, Japan, and Taiwan. Hsieh employs interdisciplinary approaches including global history, biography, and infrastructure theory to analyze how Western art music influenced Japanese state-building initiatives.

Dr. Hsieh actively builds equitable scholarly networks as co-founder of the Asian-German Studies in Music Working Group and former co-chair of the AMS Global East Asian Music Research Study Group. She serves as Reviews Editor for the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, where she promotes linguistic and geographical diversity in music scholarship.

Her recent publications explore themes of gender representation in opera, cultural diplomacy through music, and methodological challenges in global music history. She has received prestigious awards including the Kurt Weill Prize and Jerome Roche Prize for her contributions to music scholarship.

Dr. Hsieh currently supervises PhD research on women opera singers in 19th-century Britain and welcomes doctoral applicants interested in music and mobility, music and politics, and global music history.