Oksana Nesterenko (PhD in Music History and Theory, 2021) was recently awarded an Emerging Scholar Grant from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies for research in Estonia on her book project, A Forbidden Fruit? Sacred Music in the USSR before its Fall. Official announcement here! https://aabs-
Oksana Nesterenko is a music historian specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, religion, secularity, and postcolonial studies. She holds a PhD in Music History and Theory from Stony Brook University. Nesterenko’s current book project, A Forbidden Fruit? Sacred Music in the USSR before its Fall, explores sacred music in Armenia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Russia. She teaches at Union County College (NJ) and hosts the contemporary music podcast Extended Techniques.