Carmel Raz

Carmel Raz is an Assistant Professor of Music at Cornell University, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. His research bridges music history, cognitive science, and cultural studies, focusing on the interplay between music, mind, and body in European modernity. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a Diplom Orchestermusiker from the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.

Current projects include a book on the Scottish Enlightenment's proto-cognitive music theory and a study of habit in musical performance. His work has been supported by grants from the Whiting Foundation, the AHRC, and the Max Planck Society. Before Cornell, he was a postdoc at Columbia University and led the Max Planck Research Group “Histories of Music, Mind, and Body” in Frankfurt.

Raz’s research interests span historical theories of attention, global music theory, and the history of music and medicine. He has published in leading journals like the Journal of the American Musicological Society and edited volumes such as Sound and Sense in British Romanticism. Awards include the 2024 Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar Award.

His career includes performances with renowned orchestras like the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and collaborations with jazz artists, influencing his academic focus on music’s embodied practices.