Galit Gertsenzon
Assistant Teaching Professor of Honors College
Dr. Galit Gertsenzon is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Honors with vast experience in teaching across various disciplines. A classically trained pianist and renowned scholar of musical arts, Dr. Gertsenzon came to Ball State University in 2018 to lead an array of inquiry in global studies through the interdisciplinary lens of music. Dr. Gertsenzon has been serving as the Director of Zeigler Jewish Studies Program at Ball State.
Named the recipient of the Vander Hill Distinguished Honors Educator Award in 2018 and 2024, Dr. Gertsenzon's research appears in cross disciplinary journals spanning across honors education, music history, social studies, and Jewish studies.
Education:
Doctor of Musical Arts, Piano Performance; University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dissertation: Gertsenzon, G. (2012, May). Music expressions in times of uncertainty: A study of Gideon Klein's songs Op.1 for voice and piano. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10122.41924
Master of Arts, Piano Performance, Magna Cum Laude. Tel Aviv University, Buchman-Mehta School of Music. Thesis: Gertsenzon, G. (2004). The thematic transformation in selected piano pieces in the 19th Century.
Bachelor of Arts, Piano Performance and Musicology: Te-Aviv University, Buchman-Mehta School of Music.
Selected Publications:
Gertsenzon, G. (2024) "Becoming culturally responsive: Music pedagogies in honors curricula," in G. Harper (Ed.), Advancing Honors Education for Today and Tomorrow. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Gersenzon, G. (2021). Teaching from "Sum Total:" Commemorating the Holocaust through Contemporary Performance. Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education, Vol. XII (Fall 2021), pp. 41-57.
Gersenzon, G. (2021). Bridging the interval: Teaching global awareness through music and politics. Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring0Summer 2021), pp. 135-167.
Gertsenzon, G. (2020). Gideon Klein's Song Op.1 for high voice and piano. Music and the Holocaust. https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/theresienstadt/klein_gideon/gideon-kleins-songs/
Gertsenzon, G. (2020). Music in the Holocaust as an honors colloquium. Honors in Practice, 16, 15-28. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchchip/317/
Gersenzon, G. (2020, October 18). Music helped a Hoosier survive the Holocaust. It can help us now in the pandemic. Indianapolis Star. https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2020/10/18/op-ed-music-helped-hoosierthrough-holocaust-can-help-pandemic/3570983001
Gertsenzon, G. Musical expression by Jewish imprisoned composers 1938-1944. Gvanim: Journal of the Academy of Jewish Religion. pp. 47-74. https://ajr.edu/teachings/journal/current-volume/