Kim Sauberlich

Assistant Professor, Musicology

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• MMus, Kings College, London
• BMus, Kings College, London

Performance/Recording Highlights

Kim Sauberlich, Assistant Professor of Music, is an Atlantic Music scholar who focuses on the intersection of embodied performance and racialized knowledge production across Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States. She grew up in Brazil and England and completed her BMus and MMus degrees at King’s College, London, and her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, before teaching at the College of Charleston.

Sauberlich has published in Twentieth-Century Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, and presented her research at the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the International Musicological Society. Her work has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Hellman Foundation, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Fund, and the Alvin H. Johnson Fellowship from the American Musicological Society.

Courses Taught

• MUSC 131 - Music Appreciation
• MUSC 222 - Musics of the African Diaspora
• MUSC 222 - ST: Black Musics in the Americas
• MUSC 355 - Music History II