Cristina Saltos

Musicologist | African Diaspora History Class Instructor

Cristina Saltos recently completed her master’s degree in historical musicology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her current research focuses on public musicology, critical race theory and Western music, and community music studies. Cristina began playing music when she was eight years old and fell in love with music as a high-school tuba player. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in Music with a concentration in journalism (2016) and has collaborated with the music organization Ithaca Underground in Ithaca, NY to establish an archive that was deposited in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, music, television, and being as ridiculous as possible to make her friends laugh.