Staff profile

Jamison Hankins is a PhD candidate at Durham University specializing in nineteenth century British opera and voice studies. She received a Master of Arts in Musicology from Durham University in 2023 and a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Kansas in 2021. While at the University of Kansas, she travelled to Austria and the Czech Republic to complete research on music and empires. Her MA research investigated the impact of marriage on the careers of female composers in the nineteenth century. Her ongoing research focuses on the relationship between the voice and the body of female opera performers in nineteenth century London.

Jamie is also a music educator who taught marching band at the high school level and flute at all levels.

• Opera and the prima donna
• British performance culture
• Voice and the female body
• Nineteenth century studies
• Feminism and gender studies