Paul Feller-Simmons

Paul Feller-Simmons is a musicologist whose research examines the sonic and musical cultures of the early modern Western Jewish and Iberian worlds. His current book project, "Music and the Making of the Sephardic Dutch Republic," studies the musical lives of early modern Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands and considers how aurality served as a mode of self-definition. He is co-editor of The Virgin Mary’s Essence in New Spanish Song and of the forthcoming critical edition Villancicos from the Maya Highlands: Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music from the Huehuetenango Manuscript Collection. His recent scholarship includes articles in Min-Ad and Diagonal. His research has been supported by fellowships and awards from the DAAD, the Herzog August Bibliothek, the Max Weber Stiftung, the New Netherland Institute, and the Leo Baeck Institute. He is also the recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, the Irene Alm Memorial Prize from the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Award from the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. Originally from Chile, he earned his PhD in Musicology from Northwestern University.