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Emily Abrams Ansari is an Associate Professor of Music History and Assistant Dean of Research at Western University's Don Wright Faculty of Music. Her scholarship examines intersections of music, politics, and identity, with a focus on Cold War-era American classical music, Salvadoran civil war songs, and feminist perspectives in Canadian minimalism.
- BA, Durham University (UK)
- MSt, Oxford University (UK)
- PhD, Harvard University (Historical Musicology)
Her research spans two major projects: The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War (OUP, 2018) and the SSHRC-funded Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador, which creates a digital song archive documenting music's role in wartime and commemoration. She also co-edits a Washington DC music history volume with Michael Sy Uy and Daniel Boomhower.
Ansari has won multiple awards including the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award, ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, Kurt Weill Prize, and Cambridge University Press Award. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Society for American Music (2021–23) and currently supervises graduate students researching 20th/21st-century music across the Americas.
- Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award
- ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award
- Kurt Weill Prize
- Cambridge University Press Award (Society for American Music)
Her collaborative work with students and researchers involves digital archiving, historical memory workshops, and analysis of music's social/political functions. She also leads studies on Canadian minimalist composer Ann Southam, exploring connections between feminist thought and musical minimalism.
