Sarah Eyerly

Demos Fellow

Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Early Music Program

Sarah Eyerly is Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Early Music Program at FSU. Her research interests are broad, and include sound studies, performance practice and applied musicology, music and religion, and the geo-humanities. Her book and sound mapping project, Moravian Soundscapes (Series: Music, Nature, Place; Indiana University Press, 2020), is a sonic history of Moravian mission communities during the period of the Seven Year’s War and the American Revolution. She is also currently involved in an interdisciplinary research project on the history and transmission of Moravian hymns in the Mohican language. Other research projects include adaptations of Mozart’s music by Inuit musicians in coastal Labrador, heritage tourism and indigenous representation at the Gnadenhütten massacre site in Ohio, and sound reconstruction of the Apalachee and Spanish musical culture of Mission San Luis in Tallahassee. She has received grants, fellowships, and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Council for Research and Creativity (FSU). She is a Faculty Fellow in Data Humanities at FSU, and President of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Mozart Society of America, and is Treasurer for Phi Beta Kappa-Alpha of Florida.