Hi, I'm Morgan!
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Who am I?
As a passionate women-in-tech evangelist, I am dedicated to learning and tackling challenging problems. I am currently working as a systems analyst for the Information and Analytics team at Dallas ISD. I am also a Machine Learning and AI practitioner. During my spare time, I love building robots using Raspberry Pi. Feel free to contact me for collaboration or any questions.
Educations
| Tufts University, School of Engineering | 2024 | Master of Science in Computer Science |
| The Ohio State University, School of Music | 2019 | Ph.D. in Musicology |
Fun Fact
I am a former music scholar with a Ph.D. degree in music and a track record of publications, invited lectures, and research funding awards. If you want to learn more about my work as a music scholar, click the button below.
My Works as a Music Scholar
Invited Talks
Invited talks at the Library of Congress, the University of South Carolina, Stony Brook University, University of Texas, Dallas, and Korea National University of Arts.
Publications
My research appears in the Journal of the Society for American Music and the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
List of fellowships, grants, and awards that I have received from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, Ohio Federation Music Club, etc.
Invited Talks
Behind The Peak: US-Korea Relations Through Classical Music
Podcast by the University of South Carolina School of Music, October, 2021
Podcast
Encounters between Ely Haimowitz and Korean Musicians during the US Army Military Government in Korea, 1945-1948
Peake Music and Culture Colloquium Series, University of South Carolina, October 22, 2021
From World War to Cold War: Music in America's Radio Propaganda in Korea
American Musicological Society-Library of Congress Lecture Series, presented at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., November 20, 2018
Lecture
Performing Race: African American Music in US-East Asia Relations from WWII to the Cold War
State University of New York at Stony Brook, April 3, 2020
Publications
Musical Entanglements: Ely Haimowitz and Orchestral Music under the US Army Military Government in Korea
Journal of the Society for American Music 15, no. 1 (2021): 1-29
Abstract
Negotiating an Unequal Partnership: The Korean Children’s Choir 1954 US Tour and Syngman Rhee’s Diplomacy
Journal of American-East Asian Relations 28, no. 3 (2021): 218-246
AbstractFellowships, Grants, and Awards
| American Musicological Society | |
| Ora Frishberg Saloman Fund for Musicological Research | 2019 | Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 Dissertation Fellowship | 2018 |
| Keitel-Palisca and Professional Development Travel Grant | 2017, 2018 |
| The Ohio State University | |
| Graduate Achievement Award in Musicology | 2019 |
| Arts and Humanities Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences | 2017 |
| Research Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies | 2019 |
| A. Peter Costanza Doctoral Program in Music Endowment Fund, School of Music | 2019 |
| Alumni Grant for Graduate Research | 2016 |
| Graduate Ethnomusicology Travel Grants (3) | 2015, 2016, 2017 |
| Professor Keith E. Mixter Scholarship for Music History | 2016 |
| Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 Dissertation Fellowship | 2018 |
| Keitel-Palisca and Professional Development Travel Grant | 2017, 2018 | Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations |
| Global Scholar and Diversity Grant | 2018 | Society for American Music |
| Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship | 2017 | Society for Ethnomusicology |
| Annual Meeting Subvention Award (Diversity Action Program) | 2017 | Society for Ethnomusicology |
| Annual Meeting Subvention Award (Diversity Action Program) | 2017 | Ohio Federation of Music Clubs |
| Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Award | 2016 |