Matthew Franke

Dr. Matthew Franke is a Master Instructor and Coordinator of Music History at Howard University's College of Fine Arts since 2015. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His teaching includes music history sequences for majors/minors (MUSC 010, 011, 012) and courses like Introduction to Music and Global Popular Music. In 2022, he received Howard’s Outstanding Teaching Award.

His research focuses on 19th-century European music, particularly French and Italian opera (e.g., Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet) and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s spiritual arrangements. He has published in journals like Journal of the Society for American Music and Opera Journal. He curates the List of Open-Access Music Journals, a database tracking global music scholarship trends.

Dr. Franke has presented at the American Musicological Society and Society for American Music conferences, addressing topics such as cultural authenticity in music and open-access publishing’s global potential. His work bridges historical analysis and contemporary scholarly practices, emphasizing accessibility and cross-cultural dialogue.