Ripani, Giulia (gr2808)

Giulia Ripani is Assistant Professor of Music & Music Education in the Department of Arts & Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University. She conducts interdisciplinary and multi-method research on musical identities, with a particular focus on how individuals use music to express non-musical aspects of themselves. More recently, her work has expanded to examine the intersection of musical identity and mental health.

She holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, where she was awarded the University of Miami Graduate Dissertation Fellowship. Before joining Teachers College, she completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Her research has been supported by several sources, including the NAfME/SRME Research Grant and the POE Research Pilot Project Program at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Music Education Review.