Brenna Miller is a Musicology PhD student at The Ohio State University, where she is also pursuing a graduate minor in folklore. In 2023–2024, Brenna received a Graduate Enrichment Fellowship from Ohio State and was an inaugural recipient of the Career Development Grant in American Music from the American Musicological Society. Brenna holds a Bachelor of Music in Woodwind Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Florida State University, where she also received an IDEA grant for her undergraduate thesis. 

This past summer, Brenna held a Summer Graduate Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with her dissertation project titled “Sounding and Performing Jewish Cultural Community in Shanghai, China.” This project seeks to situate itself in the larger field of global music history by developing an understanding of global forces that affect musical and cultural development and expression at a local level.