Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Associate Professor of Music, has taught at The Ohio State University School of Music since 2003.  Educated at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.), the University of Hamburg (DAAD scholar), and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.), she spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University's Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts before coming to Ohio.  Her research on music and cold war politics in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States has been supported by an AMS-50 dissertation fellowship as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Research and Exchanges Board, and the Eisenhower Foundation.  Fosler-Lussier is the author of a book entitled Music Divided:  Bartók's Legacy in Cold War Culture (University of California Press, 2007).

Her current project, supported in 2011-12 by a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, describes U.S. government sponsorship for musical performances abroad during the cold war.  Her recent publications on this topic are "Cultural Diplomacy as Cultural Globalization:  The University of Michigan Jazz Band in Latin America," Journal of the Society for American Music 4, no. 1 (February 2010):  59-93; and "American Cultural Diplomacy and the Mediation of Avant-garde Music," Robert Adlington, ed., Sound Commitments:  Avant-garde Music and the Sixties (Oxford University Press, 2009), 232-253.

Her teaching and research interests include music as a site of international contact and exchange; twentieth-century music, and the music of Joseph Haydn.