Leanny Munoz is a PhD Candidate at UC Davis. She received her Master of Music from Louisiana State University; there she completed her master’s thesis, “Homenajes: Finding Spanish Identity in Falla’s Orchestral Suite.” She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Fine and Performing Arts and a minor in Music Performance at the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Her primary research interests are in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American music, especially as related to nationalism, representations of race and gender, and other socio-political issues. Additionally, Munoz is interested in film music, the discourse of colonialism in music and the classroom, arts administration, and remaining an active vocalist on campus and in the community.