Gabrielle Cornish

Gabrielle Cornish is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Mead Witter School of Music, specializing in music and everyday life in the Soviet Union. Her monograph-in-progress, Socialist Noise: Sound and Soviet Identity after Stalin, explores the intersections of music, technology, and Cold War politics. Her research has been supported by Fulbright, Title VIII, and the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship. She earned her Ph.D. in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music in 2020, where she was awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and an Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 Fellowship. She also received the Paul A. Pisk Prize for outstanding graduate student research. Cornish is a network leader in the Music Studies and the Anthropocene Research Network and is working on a project examining the Geiger Counter as an acoustic medium in relation to Chernobyl. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Musicology, The New York Times, Slate, and The Washington Post. She has also discussed Russian history and culture on NBC, BBC World Service, and BBC Radio.