Portrait of Dr. Holly Wissler

Dr. Holly Wissler

  • Asst Professor of Instruction at School of Music, College of Fine Arts & Communication

Biography

2009: Ph.D. in Musicology with emphasis in Ethnomusicology, Florida State University
Dissertation: From Grief and Joy We Sing: Social and Cosmic Regenerative Processes in the Songs of Q’eros, Peru. Funding: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant

1999: M.A. Master of Arts in Music History, University of IdahoThesis: An Outsider Inside: Ritual, Music, and Dance in the Qoyllur Rit’i Festival of the Peruvian Andes.
1998: M.M. Master of Music in Classical Flute Performance, University of Idaho

Research Interests

RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS
Indigenous Andes and Amazon culture, Inca Empire and Peru History, Applied Ethnomusicology, Indigenous Theory, Spanish, Quechua, Western Classical Music History, Deaf culture

Teaching Interests

Music History, World Music Cultures, Fine Arts, Ethnomusicology