Acknowledgements and References
Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to all the survey participants for making this research possible.
Special thanks to Clint, Erika, and Gary for agreeing to interviews and for your willingness to have your stories shared.
Many thanks to the friends, colleagues, and churches who circulated the survey at the beginning stages of this research process.
My deep gratitude to Professor Jada Watson for her direction, enthusiasm, and expertise throughout this project.
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About the Researcher
Hannah Willmann is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. Although her doctoral research specialises in music, media, and multiculturalism, her primary area of interest is in church music and worship. After a bachelor’s degree in flute performance from Ambrose University in Calgary, she chose to continue in musicology at the University of Ottawa. Her master’s thesis examined themes of transnationalism, transcendence, and exclusion in the works of Horatio Parker - a twentieth-century American composer and Dean of the School of Music at Yale from 1904-1919. Hannah has also presented research on church music and architecture, and Canadian multiculturalism. Her future plans include integrating research, teaching, and worship in whatever creative capacity she can find.