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Maia Williams Perez is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), where she studies how the early music revivals of 19th-century England address issues of nationalism and domestic culture. Her master's thesis at Boston University focused on period instruments and material culture’s role in Arnold Dolmetsch’s performances, and her dissertation explores Victorian instrument collectors and their influence on later revivals and organology. In her research, she enjoys engaging with interdisciplinary scholarship to contextualize musical performance within broader socio-political and cultural contexts. She has presented at numerous conferences, including conferences from the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and North American Victorian Studies Association. In addition to teaching at Ball State University, she works at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois.

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