Emma Wimberg is a current PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of North Texas with a related field in Ethnomusicology. Her research areas include early twentieth-century music, Choctaw hymnody, organ music, and intersections of sacred and secular music. During her time as a short-term fellow at the ISM, she will be researching documents that discuss the changing musical and religious lives of the Choctaw throughout their removal from Mississippi to Oklahoma. This project will utilize collections in the Beinecke that contain daily accounts of life in the government schools, an extensive collection of letters between Choctaw leaders and missionaries, and other documents from this time period in order to create a clearer picture of how the introduction of Christianity interacted with and altered existing musical practices.
