School of Music Faculty
David Salkowski
Assistant Professor Musicology
Dr. David Salkowski is the Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of North Florida and is a scholar of music in Late Imperial Russia, the Russian diaspora, and the Balkans. His work, based in archival and library research in Russia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, and the US, focuses on interactions between music and religion, modernist aesthetics, labor, and institutional history. As an educator, he aims to emphasize global/connected histories, history from below, and research and writing skills.
Salkowski's research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the American Musicological Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Center for Advanced Studies in Sofia. His research appears in publications including Journal of Musicology, Cambridge Opera Journal, and Twentieth Century Music, and he is currently completing a monograph provisionally titled Russian Orthodoxies in Music, 1878-1918: Community, Censorship, and the Revival of the Sacred.
Dr. Salkowski holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Princeton University, an MA in Musicology from Princeton University and a BA in Music Composition from Lewis & Clark College.
Contact: (904) 620-3836 | david.salkowski@unf.edu