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Juliet Glazer is an ethnomusicologist and anthropologist specializing in sound studies, critical organology, timbre studies, linguistic anthropology, and the study of labor value in Italy and the United States. She holds a joint PhD in Anthropology and Music from the University of Pennsylvania, where her dissertation, titled 'Senses of Value: Sound Circulation in Violin Crafting Communities,' focused on the ethnography of craft, livelihoods, and learning communities engaged in making and restoring violins, violas, and cellos. Glazer is currently working on a book project that explores the multi-sensory and inter-sensory dimensions of musical labor value in the production of violin-family instruments. Additionally, she is developing a pair of interdisciplinary articles that situate the study of timbre within the frameworks of linguistic anthropology, analyzing how luthiers in Boston and New York City communicate with musicians about sound. Her research engages with the historical and contemporary aspects of sound visualization technology and examines how the history of science intersects with ethnomusicology and music-making, especially in the context of AI and speech synthesis. Glazer was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Fellowship at Penn from 2019 to 2025, and her work has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. She has been recognized with awards such as the Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize for her graduate student paper and an honorable mention for the Society of Linguistic Anthropology John Gumperz Graduate Student Essay Prize. She earned her B.A. with cum laude distinction in Anthropology from Yale and is an accomplished classical violinist and old-time fiddler.
Boston University College of Fine Arts • Boston, MA, United States
Teaches courses in music and ethnomusicology.
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