SAM Election 2026

I serve as an associate professor of musicology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where I also act as program coordinator for the DMA in Contemporary Music. My research, which centers on contemporary opera and experimentalism, has appeared in Cambridge Opera Journal, American Music, Contemporary Music Review, and Journal of the Society for American Music, as well as the edited volumes Rethinking Reich and Contemporary Opera in Flux. As a public-facing scholar, I have written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Opera News, and NewMusicBox, and I have given talks and provided essays for Opera Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Opera, Toledo Opera, and other organizations.

I have been active as a SAM member since 2012, when I attended my first SAM conference in Charlotte, NC. I served as layout and design editor of the Bulletin of the Society for American Music from 2012 to 2016, and as general editor for the Bulletin from 2019 to 2022. I have benefited immeasurably from the community, expertise, and funding support of the society over the past decade and a half, and serving as a Member-at-Large would allow me to give back to SAM in a meaningful way.

Andrew Flory is a professor of music at Carleton College, where he specializes in teaching courses on various forms of American popular music. Recent articles include “First Avenue (Minneapolis)” in the latest JAMS colloquy celebrating the American semisesquicentennial, “Arranging on the Assembly Line: Paul Riser and Motown” (Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies ), “The Ballads of Marvin Gaye” (JAMS), “Liveness and the Grateful Dead” (American Music) and “The Expense of Exclusion: US Musicology and Popular Music” (Twentieth-Century Music) Flory is the author of the book I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B (Michigan, 2017) and is the longtime co-author of the history of rock textbook What’s that Sound (Norton). He also works as a consultant for Universal Music Enterprises and has co-produced many Motown-oriented reissue recordings. In this capacity, he has written liner notes for The Complete Motown Singles collection, was co-producer of the 2012 Marvin Gaye CD, Trouble Man [Expanded Edition] and has most recently assisted in the production for fiftieth anniversary reissues of Let’s Get It On and Marvin Gaye Live! His current project is a book about Marvin Gaye in the 1960s.

In the past, Andrew worked as local arrangements coordinator (and un-coordinator) for the cancelled 2020 SAM meeting in Minneapolis, has served on the editorial board for JSAM, and has been a reader for the Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award. The SAM community has been a vital part of Andrew’s professional career and he is thrilled to have the opportunity to serve as Member-at-Large!

Gillian M. Rodger is Professor and Chair of the Music Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests cluster around popular musical theatrical entertainment of the 19th century, including variety and vaudeville. She has served on a number of award and fellowship committees (Sight & Sound, Irving Lowens book award, Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award, Judith Tick Fellowship) and was chair of the program committee for the 2011 Annual Conference in Cincinnati, OH. She is currently the chair of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and also previously served on the SAM Board.

Caitlan Truelove is the Adjunct Instructor of Music at Mount Saint Mary College (NY) and teaches private violin lessons through SUNY Dutchess Community College Academy of Music. She has previously taught at Wichita State and Syracuse University and was the Editorial Assistant for the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 2024–26. She holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her research on film and television music and the television musical series has been presented at the International and American Musicological Societies; Music and the Moving Image; and the Society for American Music (among others). Recent publications include “’This arrangement is pleasing to all’: Listening, Song Arranging, and Production in the Twenty-First Century Television Musical” (The Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies) and “Westworld (2015–2022) and Crazy Rich Asians (2018): Exploring the Music of Asian and Asian American Identity Formation” (Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media), which is based on research she presented at her first SAM conference in 2020.

For the past two years Caitlan has served as the chair for SAM’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, organizing a panel on Re-Thinking/Re-Defining American Music Through the Archives (Tacoma 2025) and a lecture recital, Music as Resistance (Richmond 2026).