Nathan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology at Northwestern University. He holds a BM in Vocal Performance from Furman University and a MM in Musicology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a concentration in medieval and renaissance studies. Nathan’s primary research focuses on musical life of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish-occupied southern Italy. His dissertation project, "Urban Space, Plebe Musicians, and Buon Governo in Spanish Naples, 1537-1632," examines how musical representations of subaltern populations intersected with the production of urban space in the city of Naples. This work is particularly attuned to state practices of spatial and sonic regulation that developed under Spanish colonialism. Nathan pursues complementary research in the history of ethnomusicology, particularly concerning approaches to sound recording and transcription. Additional interests include sound studies, Indigenous studies, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory, and ethnography. Nathan has presented his research at a number of conferences, including meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Sixteenth Century Society, Binghamton University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and at events hosted by the Newberry Library of Chicago. In 2019-20, he was a Research Resident at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, he remains an avid singer in ensembles of the Chicago area.