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Visiting Assistant Professor of Historical Musicology Saraswathi (Sara) Shukla earned PhD in musicology with a designated emphasis in Renaissance and early modern studies from UC Berkeley and an AB in History from Princeton University.
Trained as a musicologist, historian听and harpsichordist, she studies instrumental music of the 17th and 18th centuries and its revival since the 20th century using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies. Her research also explores questions of historiography and cultural politics in the early music movement in Europe and the United States. She is a member of the COST Action, EarlyMuse, which studies the place of early music in Europe.
Shukla has been a lecturer and researcher at the Universit茅 de Lorraine. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards听including the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50, two Georges Lurcy Fellowships, the Chateaubriand Fellowship, a DAAD Study Scholarship at the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music鈥檚 Irene Alm Memorial Prize.
Shukla has published in journals such as the Sound Studies Review,听Keyboard Perspectives,听Eighteenth-Century Music听and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.听She is frequently invited as a panelist and presenter at national and international conferences. She enjoys collaborating with soloists and ensembles specializing in early music.