The Department welcomes Joshua Pilzer and Laurie Silverberg

We extend a warm welcome Joshua Pilzer and Laurie Silverberg, both of whom have accepted Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships here in the Department of Music at Columbia.

Laurie Silverberg received her PhD in Music from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. Her dissertation was entitled "The East German Sonderweg to Modern Music, 1956-1971."

Joshua Pilzer received his PhD in Music from the University of Chicago in 2005 and was on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara prior to joining us at Columbia. His dissertation was entitled "My heart, the number one": Singing in the lives of South Korean survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery."

Drs. Silverberg and Pilzer join Drs. Ruth Rosenberg and Brian Kane as Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in Music in the Department.