Kevin Karnes Associate Professor, Music History; Chair Music Department Emory University 1804 North Decatur Road, Room 233 Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-5038 404-727-0074 FAX kkarnes@emory.edu

Kevin C. Karnes joined the Emory faculty in 2004 and has served as Chair of the Department of Music since 2010. His research explores the cultural history of Europe from the nineteenth century through the present day, focusing especially upon German- and Latvian-speaking communities within central and eastern Europe. His books include Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History (Oxford University Press, 2008); Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies: The Landscape since 1991, co-edited with Joachim Braun (Routledge, 2009); and the revised and expanded edition of Brahms and His World, co-edited with Walter Frisch (Princeton University Press, 2009). He is presently completing two book-length studies: Jewish Folk Songs of the Baltic Littoral from the Eve of Revolution to the Stalin Years, forthcoming in the A-R Editions series Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music; and A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, a project for which he was awarded an ACLS/Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship in 2010. Beyond these, his horizon of study comprehends multiple facets of the cultural landscapes of north-eastern Europe, including historical ethnography, the music of Arvo Pärt, and diverse intertwinings of music, narrative, and memoir.

Kevin received his PhD from Brandeis University in 2001, where he studied with Allan Keiler and Jessie Ann Owens. He also holds an MM degree in trombone performance from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied with Stuart Dempster, and BS degrees in mathematics and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.