#  Alessandra Jones 

 

 



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 email [alessandra\_jones@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:alessandra_jones@fas.harvard.edu) 

 



 

Alessandra Jones received her PhD in Musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. Her research seeks to understand how people were and are moved by music, in terms both poetic and material. At the Mahindra Humanities Center she will work on a project, “Circum-Mediterranean Cosmologies: Italian Ports, Popular Song, and the World, 1797-1869,” which offers a new approach to understanding the role that music played in colonial enterprises. The project centers Mediterranean migrations between various port cities in Italy as well as between Italy and (primarily) Egypt to investigate how music covered for or even inspired the extractive activities of colonialism. Her work has been supported by an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship and a Venetian Research Program Grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Jones received her BA in Music from Smith College and her MA in Music from Hunter College, City University of New York. An article, “Noise and Silence in *Rigoletto*’s Venice,” appeared in *Cambridge Opera Journal*.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Music](/discipline/music)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2021 - 2022](/fellowship-year/2021-2022-0)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)