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Lord Crewe Career Development Fellow Emma Kavanagh elected to Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Tuesday 31 October 2023
Emma Kavanagh

Dr. Emma Kavanagh, the Lord Crewe Career Development Fellow in Music at Lincoln College, has recently been elected as an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

The Royal Historical Society champions historical scholarship in schools, higher education, and across the heritage sector. Associate Fellowship of the Society is awarded in recognition of contributions to the field and the potential to conduct significant research in future.

Emma is a musicologist and cultural historian of opera in France between the Revolution and the First World War. She was the inaugural recipient of the Oxford-Louis Curran Graduate Scholarship and completed her DPhil in Music at Linacre College in 2022. Her research spans musicology, cultural history, and French Studies, and in 2021 she was awarded the Ralph Gibson Bursary from the Society for the Study of French History in recognition of the interdisciplinary contribution of her work.

As the Lord Crewe Career Development Fellow at Lincoln College, Emma has been developing and disseminating her doctoral research, alongside preparatory work for a new project on women operatic composers in nineteenth-century France.
 

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