On Oct. 12, Auxiliary Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music History Alanna Ropchock Tierno, Ph.D., presented a paper, “Weeping Angels and Cultural Carrots: The Electric Guitar in American Catholic Culture,” at the Electric Guitar in American Culture conference at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
On Nov. 3, Tierno presented “‘Nothing About a Sacrifice But Only Praise and Thanks’: Performing the Mass Ordinary in Early Lutheran Churches” at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.