Professor Dr. Lisa Mccormick

Biography

Lisa McCormick is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Yale University and has a background as a conservatory-trained cellist, which informs her research in the cultural sociology of music and the arts. Dr. McCormick has published extensively, including her book "Performing Civility" (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which examines social dynamics in international classical music competitions. She is currently co-editing the "Oxford Handbook of Competition Music" and has guest edited a special issue on the cultural sociology of art and music for the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals, contributing to fields such as cultural sociology and sociology of the arts. Dr. McCormick has been actively involved in academic committees, including serving as a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and as a co-editor for the journal Cultural Sociology. She also supervises PhD students exploring diverse topics related to cultural sociology and music.

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