Dr. Aaron S. Allen

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Dr. Aaron S. Allen

Dr. Aaron S. Allen

Geography, Environment, and Sustainability

Dr. Aaron S. Allen is director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program and Associate Professor of Musicology at UNCG. From 2013 to ’15, Dr. Allen was UNCG’s first Academic Sustainability Coordinator. He earned his Ph.D. in 2006 from Harvard with a dissertation on the nineteenth-century Italian reception of Beethoven, and in 2011-12 he was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Dr. Allen’s B.A. in music and B.S. in environmental studies are from Tulane University, where he was active in the campus environmental movement that resulted in establishing Tulane’s Office of Sustainability in 1999. In 2016, Dr. Allen was co-editor of the first major book published about the new field of ecomusicology, entitled Current Directions in Ecomusicology.