Incoming Member
Gabriela Gomes da Cruz
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
Musicology
Website
Gabriela Cruz is a musicologist and opera scholar. While at the Institute of Advanced Stduies she will be working on her new book project, In Pursuit of Happiness: Music and Comedy on the Modern Stage, which tracks the centrality of the idea of happiness in musical theater from the eighteenth century to the postwar era.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Spring
Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
1999
Honors
2025-2030
Glen McGeoch Professor of Music, University of Michigan
Appointments
School of Music Theatre and Dance, University of Michigan
2012
Assistant Professor
School of Music Theatre and Dance, University of Michigan
2018
Associate Professor
International Institute, University of Michigan
2021
Faculty Associate
School of Music, Theatre and Dance, University of Michigan
2023–2026
Chair of Department of Musicology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2007–2012
Researcher in Music
Tufts University
1999–2004
Assistant Professor