Lydia Lee (M.A.R.) will focus her studies on music and religion. She grew up on her family’s pig farm in rural Iowa and graduated with B.A. degrees in music and English from Iowa State University. She then moved to Cambridge, UK, where she earned an M.Phil. in music, was formally received into the Church of England, rowed competitively, and played piano in a jazz band. Her master’s dissertation centered on the relationship between music and infinite longing (Sehnsucht) in German Romanticism, a research interest she intends to develop further at Yale.
