Jennifer Walker

Jennifer Walker (Ph.D., Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is an assistant professor of musicology in the School of Music at West Virginia University. A scholar of French music during the late nineteenth century, her research reevaluates music’s role in the relationship between the French state and the Catholic church at the end of the nineteenth century by offering an alternative to the prevailing epistemological emphasis on divisions between the church and the secular Third Republic. More broadly, her research focuses on the intersections of music, politics, and religion in secular societies.