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Music and social justice (emphasis on opera and classical music)Music and/as activismStrategies of anti-coloniality in opera and art music in North AmericaMusic and disability studiesOpera studiesCommunity-led researchethics in fieldworkMusical repa/matriationHaydn studiesEighteenth-century studies (ca. 1750-1810)Music history pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning
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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Music and social justice (emphasis on opera and classical music)
Dear Professor Roussin,
My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year].
Your research on music and social justice (emphasis on opera and classical music) connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.]
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