Melani Shahin is a PhD candidate in the Music History and Theory Program at the University of Chicago. As a Fulbright Fellow, she will conduct archival research in Jerusalem for her dissertation, “The German-Jewish Reception of Christian Hebraist Writings on Jewish Music, ca. 1780-1900.” During her fellowship, she will be supervised by Professor Yossi Maurey in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Melani’s dissertation charts the intellectual history of Jewish music research during its emergence as a distinct field of study in German-speaking lands in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is specifically interested in investigating the ways in which Jewish music scholars associated with the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism) movement critically engaged with early modern Christian writings that discuss music in the Bible and Jewish musical practices more broadly. Melani received a B.A. in music and philosophy with a minor in religious studies from Fordham University and an M.A. in music from the University of Chicago.