Justin Frankeny

Justin Frankeny is a lecturer of music history at the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts, and he was a visiting assistant professor of music history at BW during the 2023-24 aacademic year.

Frankeny has also taught courses on music history, music theory, and music appreciation at Duquesne University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. in musicology at UNC.

Originally from Pittsburgh, Frankeny received a Bachelor of Music in composition and music history and literature from Baldwin Wallace University and a Master of Arts in musicology from UNC Chapel Hill. His master’s thesis explored issues of distinction and exclusion in the genre of progressive rock during the early 2000s "prog rock resurgence," with the music of The Mars Volta as his primary case study.

His forthcoming dissertation investigates how composers of the Cuban diaspora navigated the art world of contemporary art music amidst their experiences of migration and the rapidly changing political and economic climates of the United States and Cuba in the years after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. His research has been supported by the Edward T. Cone Fellowship through the Society for American Music and the Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship at the University of Miami.