Sarah Eyerly

Sarah Eyerly is Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in the College of Music at Florida State University.

Her research interests are broad, and include sound studies, performance practice, music and religion, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the geo-humanities. Her current projects include a biography and documentary film on the life of the eighteenth-century Mohican musician, Joshua, sound reconstruction of Moravian mission sites in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and the Apalachee and Spanish musical culture of Mission San Luis in Tallahassee, FL.

Her first book, Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early America (Indiana University Press, Series: Music, Nature, Place, 2020), received the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society, and the Dale W. Brown Book Award from the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, and was a finalist for the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize. She is also co-author, with Rachel Wheeler, of the triple prize-winning article, “Singing Box 331: Re-Sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymns from the Moravian Archives” (The William and Mary Quarterly, 2019), and her article, “Mozart and the Moravians” (Early Music, 2019), received the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America.