Politics, Economics, Society Member

Marie Sumner Lott (PhD, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, 2008) is an Associate Professor of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Sumner Lott’s research investigates the musical cultures of nineteenth-century Europe with a focus on the composer Johannes Brahms and his contemporaries. She is the author of The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and numerous articles in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. Her 2012 article on Brahms’s Op. 51 string quartets, published in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (U.K.), won ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for outstanding writing about concert music. Her current research project focuses on Romantic Medievalism in the music of Brahms and his affiliates; travel to Germany for archival work on this project was supported by a GSU Research Initiation Grant and a Provost’s Faculty Fellowship grant in 2016-17. Dr. Sumner Lott has participated in several GSA meetings as a presenter, panelist, and seminar member. She has experience serving in leadership positions within similar academic organizations, including on the Executive Board of the American Brahms Society (2015-present, Treasurer), the Executive Council of the American Musicological Society (2017-20, Nominating Committee chair in 2020), and within the South-Central Chapter of the AMS (Secretary-Treasurer, 2013-19).

Dominic Nyhuis (PhD, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2015) is DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor for German Studies at the Department of Political Science and the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his current appointment, he was affiliated with the Universities of Hannover, Frankfurt/Main, and Vienna. In his research, he focuses on contemporary German politics with an emphasis on political parties and legislative politics. In addition to this work on German federal politics, he is particularly interested in subnational and local politics. In his current research project “Representation and inequality in local politics,” Nyhuis studies disparities in the representation of social groups in German local politics. His research projects are funded by the German Research Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation. Nyhuis has participated in the GSA since 2019. He co-organized a seminar on “German party politics in times of change and uncertainty” during the 2020 GSA. For the 2021 conference, he co-organized a seminar on “German parliamentary democracy in transition.” He also joined the Program Committee for the 2021 GSA as field co-coordinator for “Contemporary Politics, Economics, and Society.”