Dr. Oksana Nesterenko is a music historian specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, religion, secularity, and postcolonial studies. She holds a PhD in Music History and Theory from Stony Brook University. Her current book project, A Forbidden Fruit? Sacred Music in the USSR before its Fall, supported by NEH, ACLS, AABS, and ARISC, explores music in Armenia, Estonia, Russia, and Ukraine during the final decades of the Soviet Union, illuminating the impact of imperial power on artistic practice and religious freedom. Dr. Nesterenko’s writing has been published in Perspectives of New Music, Yale Journal of Music & Religion, the Jordan Center blog, Musicology Now, the Claquers, Bird In Flight, and is forthcoming in Perspectives on Ukrainian Music, edited by Peter J. Schmelz and Leah Batstone (Indiana University Press). She teaches at Montclair State University, hosts a contemporary music podcast Extended Techniques, and serves on the executive board of Ukraine Decolonial Studies Network and the advisory board of Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival in New York.
