Education

• Current Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, The Ohio State University
• M.A. in Ethnomusicology, The Ohio State University, March 2006
• B.M., Music Theory, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2001

Employment

• Winter 2009-Present: Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• 2003-present: Director of Music, Church of the Saviour-United Methodist, Westerville, OH
• 2007-2008: Graduate Research Associate, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Fall 2006: Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• 2003-2004: Assistant Music Coordinator, St. Thomas More Newman Parish, Columbus, OH
• 2002-2006: Graduate Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• 2002-2003: Organist/Accompanist: Church of the Savior, Westerville, OH

Awards

• Jack and Zoe Johnstone Graduate Award for Excellence in Musicology, 2008
• Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service, 2008
• Ethnomusicology Field Research Grant, The Ohio State University, 2004 & 2006-2008
• Musicology Area Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Associate, 2006
• Mary Hubbell Osburn Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2006
• CIC Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP) Scholarship, 2005
• Graduate Associateship in Musicology, The Ohio State University, 2002-2006
• Fellowship in Musicology, The Ohio State University, 2001

Publications

“‘Re-harmonizing’ the Generations: Rap, Poetry, and Hmong Oral Tradition.” (Untitled Anthology on Hmong American Studies.) Ed. Mark Pfeifer and Kou Yang. University of Hawaii Press (forthcoming).

Hmong Music and Children and Folk Song in Hmong America. Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore. Ed. Kathleen Nadeau. Greenwood Press (forthcoming).

Website review “World History Sources.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 39 (2007): 210-211.

Speaking Musically: An Introduction to Traditional Hmong Music, N.p. (2001), Video.

Qhia txog suab Hmoob qeej, raj nplooj, thiab kwv txhiaj [Introduction to Traditional Hmong Musical Instruments and Folksong], N.p. (2001), Video.

Presentations

Udo Will, Nick Poss, & Tsun-Hui Hung. “Music-language Links: More Than Analogies?” The Ohio State University Musicology Lecture Series, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (11 November, 2009)

Udo Will, Nick Poss, & Tsun-Hui Hung. “Talking Instruments, Tone Languages, and the Music-Language Link,” Music, Language and the Mind, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (12 July, 2008)

Udo Will & Nick Poss. “The Role of Pitch Contours in Tonal Languages Processing,” Fourth Conference on Speech Prosody, Campinas, Brazil (7 May, 2008) [pdf]

Nick Poss, Tsun-Hui Hung & Udo Will. “The Effects of Tonal Information on Lexical Activation in Mandarin,” North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (26 April, 2008) [pdf]

“Hmong Music and Language Cognition: Performing and Understanding Musical Messages,” The Second International Conference on Hmong Studies, Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota (12 April, 2008)

“The Role of Pitch in the Processing of Tonal Languages: New Evidence on the Connection between Language and Music,” The Society for EthnomusicologyPre-conference Symposium: New Directions In Cognitive Ethnomusicology, Columbus, Ohio (24 October, 2007)

“Pitch Processing in Speech Surrogates and Tonal Languages: A Link between Language and Music,” Poster presented at The Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio (25 October, 2007)

“Intersecting Traditions in Contemporary Hmong Music,” The American Folklore Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (19 October, 2006)

“Evil Kwv Txhiaj: Intersecting Traditions in Hmong Rap,” Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (30 April, 2006)

“Workshop on Traditional Hmong Flute Music,” Hmong Art Summit and Exhibition, Metro State University, St. Paul, Minnesota (16 March, 2006)

“Sounding good”: Negotiating verbal, musical, and cultural constructions in the performance of Hmong raj,” The Ohio State University Musicology Lecture Series, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (27 February, 2006)

“Speaking Musically: The Communication of Words and Identity on the Hmong Flute,” Midwest Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio (2 April, 2005)

“The Changing World of Traditional Hmong Music,” National Conference for Undergraduate Research, University of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky (March, 2001)

Teaching

Lecturer, The Ohio State University: 2006, 2009, 2010

• Music on the Move in a Globalized World
• African American Music
• World Music Cultures

Graduate Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University: 2002-2006

• History of Rock and Roll
• History of Western Art Music
• Music Cultures of the World
• Introduction to Listening
• Music History Series for Music Majors
• Introduction to Jazz

Extracurricular Activities

• Coordinator for the Three Sisters Community Garden, Harlem Township, Ohio 2009-present
• Volunteer classroom tutor for the Columbus Literacy Council, 2005-2009
• Volunteer tutor at the Mt . Sinai Church After School Program, 2005-2006