Justin T. Gregg is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Music at Columbia University, where he completed his PhD in Historical Musicology in 2024. He received the 2025 Young Scholars Award for Gustav Mahler Research from the International Gustav Mahler Society on the basis of his dissertation, titled “Mahler, Politicized: Musical Diplomacy and Internationalism in the 1920 Amsterdam Mahler Festival” (advised by Prof. Walter Frisch). He has recently presented his research at the “Music, Diplomacy, Propaganda” workshop held at the Université de Montréal (2025), the Interdisciplinary Explorations in Netherlandic Studies conference held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2025), the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Denver (2023), and the first international symposium of the Wissenschaftszentrum Gustav Mahler in Vienna (2022), among other conferences and events.
He regularly teaches Music Humanities courses as part of Columbia’s Core Curriculum, and previously served for two years as the director of Columbia’s Collegium Musicum, a Renaissance-style choral ensemble. He holds additional degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Hartford, and has also taught courses in musicology for both undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Delaware. In his spare time, he enjoys bicycling, indoor rock climbing, and learning foreign languages.
