​An interdisciplinary scholar and musician, Alexandra studies the material culture of music, musical instruments, and performance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. She is particularly interested in using music to explore themes of gender, race, and labor in the formation of national identities through early American domestic tourism. Prior to beginning her PhD, Alexandra was the Senior Curator & Director of Woodwind Studies at the Sigal Music Museum in Greenville, South Carolina. Alexandra is also passionate about the use of historic soundscapes in museum interpretation to facilitate and complicate understandings of the past, founding the American Music Room Project (www.americanmusicroom.com).​