Ruth E. Rosenberg

Trustee and President

Ruth Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where she teaches classes on music history, sound studies, ethnomusicology, gender studies, and popular music. 

She received her PhD in Anthropology of Music from the University of Pennsylvania (2006), followed by a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship from Columbia University in New York (2006-2008). In 2011, she was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from UIC Institute for the Humanities; in 2013 she received a Teaching Recognition Award from UIC’s Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

Rosenberg’s monograph is Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in Nineteenth-Century France: Musical Apprehensions (Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology, 2014). She is a contributor to the book America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914: Music, Revolution, and Race (Boydell, 2022). Her research has also been published in the journals Popular Music Studies, Current Musicology, Musical Quarterly, and Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Her reviews have appeared in Popular Music and Society, Current Musicology, The Yearbook for Traditional Music, and Notes. She contributed several articles to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Her research has been presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Anthropological Association, and the American Musicological Society, and more. In addition to ongoing historical work on American music in the French imaginary during the long nineteenth century, Rosenberg’s current research concerns historical and popular debates over tuning standards, the 432 Hz music phenomenon, and popular discourses on sound and wellness. 

Paul Lincoln

Trustee and Artistic Director

Paul Lincoln is an active performer and teacher in New York City. Most recently he was seen in Roundabout Theatre’s production of Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer Prize winning Primary Trust at the Laura Pels Theatre.

Paul made his solo and conducting debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of twenty. Later engagements as a soloist include the Cairo Opera House, Sydney Opera House, Rome Festival and an invitation to sing at the Kennedy Center Millennium Celebrations.

Paul has performed in numerous operas and musical theater productions around the world including the original cast of the First National tour of Cabaret with Teri Hatcher and John Doyle's revival of Allegro at Classic Stage Company.  Paul helped develop, music directed and played the part of Euturpe in the world premier of Lyrical Langston: His Muse for Music.  Later, he produced a successful commercial run of this show in association with the Lost Nation Theater.  As a director, Paul worked at the Performing Arts High School made famous in the movie Fame, creating a brand new show, Life of the Party with Larry O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, the creators of Legally Blonde on Broadway.

Paul teaches and coaches in New York and works regularly with Tony award-winning Broadway performers as well as professional opera singers.  He teaches privately and as a Soyulla Artist.

Paul is also a member of the California Bar and has volunteered his legal services for environmental organizations.

Norman L. Rosenberg

Trustee

Gerry Ginsburg’s first cousin, Norman L. Rosenberg is DeWitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College, where he taught American History and Culture. 

Paul G. Feller-Simmons

Digital Engraving/Editorial Staff

Paul G. Feller-Simmons is a PhD candidate in Northwestern University's Musicology Program and a Lecturer at the University of Illinois Chicago. Primarily an early modernist, Paul's work engages with the cultural history of Jewish-Christian musical exchanges, music in the Spanish colonies, and the creation of community and identity through music. Paul is a Presidential Fellow, which is the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students by Northwestern University.