Assistant Professor, Music/Musicology
piercejm@umich.edu
Center for European Studies;
CES Faculty;
CREES Faculty Associates;
Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies;
Copernicus Center for Polish Studies;
CCPS Faculty;
CCPS Steering Committee
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Musicology, Cornell University, 2019
M.A. Musicology, Cornell University, 2015
B.A., Music and Philosophy, Swarthmore College, 2011
About
Mackenzie Pierce researches music of the twentieth century, with a main focus on the politics of culture in eastern Europe. His current book project examines the generation of Polish and Polish-Jewish modernist composers whose lives were affected by World War II and the Holocaust. He also writes and teaches about topics such as the history of sound recording, the music of Fryderyk Chopin, and improvisation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music.
