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Brandon Konoval is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, holding an appointment in the School of Music and the Arts One program. He has taught since 1999 and engages in intellectual cultural history with a particular focus on music studies within the frameworks of history, philosophy, and science and technology. His research interests include the relationships between music and mathematics as well as early modern science. He has published extensively on topics such as the genealogies of inequality, morality, and sexuality as developed by Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Foucault. His work has been featured in journals including Annals of Science, Perspectives on Science, Modern Intellectual History, Nietzsche-Studien, and Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance. He is particularly interested in the pedagogical methodologies associated with music humanities and has contributed significantly to scholarly discussions on these themes. His ongoing projects explore the prospects of educational leadership through a historical and critical lens, connecting the work of Max Weber with contemporary issues in sociology and education.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.