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Erika Supria Honisch is an Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies at Stony Brook University and Affiliate Faculty in the History Department. She serves as Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook and co-edits the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World (Music Subject Editor). Her research focuses on music, politics, and religious culture in early modern Europe, with specializations in historical sound studies, music’s materialities, and music in ritual.
- PhD, University of Chicago
- MA, University of Chicago
- BMus, University of British Columbia
Her work uses sacred music and sound to analyze religious coexistence and conflict in Prague during the Thirty Years’ War. She collaborates with early music ensembles like Schola Antiqua and Cinquecento, co-founded the Inclusive Early Music teaching resource, and co-chaired the American Musicological Society’s Cultural Diversity Committee. Recent publications explore confraternities, urban soundscapes, and music’s role in religious pluralism.
- Westrup Prize (2020)
- SBU Godfrey Excellence in Teaching Award (2022)
- AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellow (2009)
Honisch directs Stony Brook’s Baroque Performance Practice Workshop and is a member of the CONFRASOUND research group and Musica Rudolphina (Prague). She frequently presents at international conferences and contributes to public scholarship through liner notes and digital humanities projects like CODICES (NEH-funded). Her teaching includes seminars on sound studies, baroque listening practices, and historical conflict.
