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Dr Ariana Phillips-Hutton serves as Lecturer in Global Critical and Cultural Study of Music at the School of Music, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds since 2022. Previously, she held postdoctoral research positions at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Cambridge, where she also served as temporary lecturer and Director of Studies in Music at Queens' College.
Her academic qualifications include:
- PhD in Music (University of Cambridge, 2017)
- Dual MM in Music History and Literature and Piano Performance (Baylor University)
- BM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy, summa cum laude and Honors Scholar with Distinction (Baylor University)
Her research centers on the philosophy, performance, and politics of contemporary music with emphases on conflict transformation, ecomusicology, and musical ethics. She actively explores decolonizing music education and examines 20th-21st century music across popular and art traditions through interdisciplinary lenses including ethnomusicology, media studies, and cultural theory. Current projects investigate the belliphonic imaginary of the South African War, global circulation of musical violence commemorations, and ethical dimensions of the musical voice.
She is author of Music Transforming Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation (Bloomsbury, 2023) and the Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2020), with additional publications in Twentieth-Century Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, Popular Music, and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association.
Her professional distinctions include:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Wallace L. Daniel Prize (awarded during undergraduate studies)
Dr Phillips-Hutton currently supervises PhD candidates Huw Jones and Rui Li while serving as Deputy Director of Student Education and Programme Leader for BMus (Performance). She actively welcomes new PhD students in her research areas and maintains professional affiliations with the Royal Musical Association, British Forum for Ethnomusicology, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and American Musicological Society.
