- Ph.D., Cornell University, 2026
- M.A., Cornell University, 2022
- M.A., Rutgers University, 2019
- B.M., Rutgers University, 2017
Rachel Horner
Visiting Lecturer, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
she/her
- rkhorner@iu.edu
- 800 E. 3rd St., 247
- Office Hours
Education
Research interests
- Festivals and public cultural expression
- Language and linguistic theories of sound
- Spain and Latin America
- Sound studies
- Semiotics
- Ethnographic methods and writing
- Writing center pedagogy
Courses recently taught
- Music and Writing: Musical Discourses across Sound and Page
- On Display: Carnival, Festival, and Ritual
- Responding to Writing: Theory and Pedagogy
- Introduction to Music
- Introduction to Musics of the World
Awards + Distinctions
- Lise Waxer Prize, Popular Music Section, Society for Ethnomusicology (2024)
- Manon Michels Einaudi Grant, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University (2023)
- James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize, John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University (2023)
- Gertrude Spencer Prize, John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University (2022)
- John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts, John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University (2022)
Publication highlights
- Horner, Rachel. "Finding What Is Lost: The Intangible Archive of València's Falles Festival." In "Archives, Access, and Ethnomusicology," edited by Laura Risk and Janice Tulk, special issue, MUSICultures 52 (2025): 175–205.
- Horner, Rachel. Review of Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas, by Jairo Moreno. Journal of the American Musicological Society 77, no. 3 (Fall 2024).
- Horner, Rachel. Review of Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Rio de Janeiro, by Andrew Snyder. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews (Oct 2023).
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