Pamela M. Potter, Professor of Musicology, has been named Director of the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, following a term as Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music.
Potter's research and publications have concentrated primarily on German music and politics in the 19th and 20th centuries, and her work in Jewish Studies includes exploring ways of defining Jewish music and the impact of Jewish immigrants on American musical life and scholarship.
She has served on a number of committees including: the Arts and Humanities Research Committee, the University Fellowships Committee, the General Education Committee and the L&S Curriculum Committee.
She has also served on committees for the German Studies Association, H-German, and the American Musicological Society, where she was a member of the board of directors and review editors for the society’s journal.
Potter is the 1997 recipient of the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society and the 2003 recipient of the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship.