Assistant Professor, Musicology, Fall 2023 | Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit will join WashU as Assistant Professor of Musicology in Fall 2023. His innovative research in the emerging field of global music history examines musical and intellectual exchanges between Europe’s colonial powers and the empire of Siam (present-day Thailand) in the decades around 1900. Parkorn has been awarded three prestigious fellowships by the American Musicological Society: the Alvin H. Johnson AMS50 Dissertation Fellowship, the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship, and the Holmes/D’Accone Fellowship in Opera Studies. He will complete his PhD in musicology this spring at the University of California, Berkeley, and he holds a BA in comparative literature from Oberlin College.