Jillian Rogers is a horn player and musicologist originally from Wilmington, Delaware. After receiving her Bachelor's degree in music performance from the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music in 2006, she attended Brandeis University, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Musicology in 2008. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research interests include fin de siècle musical cultures, specifically the music of Maurice Ravel and Gustav Mahler, as well as suffragist song in the United States. In addition, Jill enjoys teaching and writing about popular music, in particular Motown, American indie rock, and British and American popular music in the 1970s and 1980s. She is particularly concerned with how people use music as a way of constructing, expressing, and dealing with emotion, and is currently writing a dissertation entitled "Grieving through Music in Interwar France: Maurice Ravel and his Circle, 1914-1934" under the direction of Professor Tamara Levitz. A Chateaubriand Fellowship for the 2011-2012 school year allowed Jill to spend nine months in Paris performing dissertation research, which she will continue, splitting her time between Paris and the United States, during the 2012-2013 academic year thanks to funding from Phi Beta Kappa's Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship. In her spare time, Jill enjoys running, hiking, swimming, and doing yoga, as well as knitting, vegan baking, reading, singing karaoke, and drinking tea.