Maureen Kelly, who recently completed the M.A. degree in the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology, has been admitted to doctoral studies at the University of Ottawa where she will study for the Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Studies in Music Program, Faculty of Arts. Ms. Kelly is an accomplished French horn performer who recently learned to perform the alphorn. Her M.A. thesis, “The Alphorn in America: A Transnational Community”, is an organological study that examines three varieties of alphorn institutions in North America and their transnational ties to European (largely Swiss) counterparts. Transnational retreats, competitions, and musical instruction bind these ties. Maureen presents a richly textured study of imagined communities, transnationalism, and musical skills intergenerationally transmitted and sustained around a single musical instrument. The thesis was supervised by Dr. Barbara Hampton, Director of the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology. Maureen Kelly earned her baccalaureate degree from Loyola University, New Orleans.
