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Nicole Steinberg

Nicole Steinberg poses for a headshot. She is a white, brunette woman wearing a knitted shawl and smiling at the camera. In the background is fall foliage.

Lecturer, Musicology
Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Education

B.M., Voice Performance, University of Miami
M.M., Voice Performance, Towson University
Ph.D., Musicology, University of Maryland, College Park

Research Expertise

Musicology & Ethnomusicology
Voice & Opera

Appointed Fall 2025

Nicole Steinberg is a musicologist specializing in opera, trauma, and performance studies within the broader discourses of Holocaust remembrance and commemoration. She has recently published her research on Holocaust opera and the institutional framing of memory in the Opera Journal, and has additional work forthcoming with the Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound, and Trauma and the Oxford Handbook on Music and Grief.

With a passion for applied musicology, Steinberg frequently couples her scholarly research with her experience in arts non-profit management. Currently, she serves as the Cultural Programs coordinator and project lead of Voices in Solidarity: Baltimore’s Black and Jewish Operatic History in partnership with the the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture and the Jewish Museum of Maryland. The project, grounded in scholarship, bridges community divide through place-based storytelling and reconciliation.

Nicole Steinberg earned her Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also holds an M.M. from and a B.M. in voice performance from Towson University and the University of Miami, respectively.