Kira Álvarez
Kira Álvarez works broadly at the intersection of history, music, politics, religion, and science and technology. Her current research project demonstrates how non-state cultural institutions and private actors help strengthen and sustain transnational relations. This project is based on extensive research in thirty historical, music, and political archives across three continents.
Kira has had bylines in Forbes, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and taz. She has taught, presented, and published her research in the United States and the EU. Kira’s research has been supported by a number of grants, including from Stanford University and the German Research Foundation (DFG). She received fully funded degrees from Stanford University (M.A., M.A.), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (M.A.), and Swarthmore College (B.A.).
Education:
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Stanford University, M.A., History; M.A., Musicology
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M. A., Religious History
Passed the university Hebrew language proficiency exam
Swarthmore College, B.A., Religion and History
Additional B.A. coursework in religion and history at the University of
Pennsylvania
US Immigration History in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Kira Alvarez, Tuesdays, 16:00-18:00
Summer Semester 2019The American Jewish Experience in the 20th Century, Kira Alvarez, Mondays, 16:00-18:00
Summer Semester 2018The Politics of Music: The Twentieth Century Classical Music World in the United States, Kira Alvarez, Tuesdays, 14:00-16:00
Dissertation Project:
"A Transnational Trio: American Jewry, Western Classical Music, and Mandatory Palestine/Israel, 1920s-1960s"
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Eds. Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors (forthcoming, Routledge).
“Mit sanfter Macht zur Versöhnung,” Musik öffnet Welten: Zur Gestaltung internationaler Beziehungen. Eds. Ronald Grätz and Christian Höppner. Göttingen: Steidel, 2019, 37-43.
Media
Deutschlandradio Kultur, Die Diva aus Israel: Edis de Philippe, Sopran und Impresaria der Israelischen Nationaloper, Kira Alvarez, 04.02.2022
taz, Jahrestag der Befreiung des KZ Dachau: Gedenken schützt Demokratie, 29.04.2021
Deutschlandradio Kultur, Eine Faust gegen den Antisemitismus: Bronislaw Huberman, Geigenvirtuose und Gründer des Palestine Symphony Orchestra, Kira Alvarez, 18.06.2017
Deutschlandradio "Musikfeuilleton", Rebroadcast von Eine Faust gegen den Antisemitismus
Bronisław Huberman, Gründer des Palestine Symphony Orchestra, 16.09.2022
