Vicky Mogollon Montagne

Vicky Mogollón Montagne (she/ella), PhD, is a scholar of music and spirituality who advances a Caribbeanist perspective within Venezuelan studies through the lenses of affect theory, sensory ethnography and sound studies. Her research explores the convergences of music, sound and violence in contemporary Caracas, Venezuela, particularly among espiritistas marialionceros (religious practitioners). Her work has been supported by the Society of Ethnomusicology, the Society for American Music, and the National Museum for the American Latino.

Mogollón Montagne is a Charles Henry Turner Post-Doctoral Fellow at CCM, where she will continue her research and teach while preparing for a future faculty position. Mogollón Montagne will be mentored by CCM Assistant Professor of Music Studies Kristy Swift and CCM Professor of Ethnomusicology Stefan Fiol during the 2-year appointment, which begins on Aug. 15, 2024.

In Fall 2024 Mogollón Montagne will teach "Communication and Research for Today’s Musician"  at CCM. She is also interested in offering classes on Afrodiasporic Music and Religiosity, Caribbean Musics 2.0, Musics in Latin America, Jazzy Latinidad, Music and Violence and Writing About Music. Prior to coming to CCM, Mogollón Montagne earned a MMus in Advanced Musical Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She was the assistant editor for the Latin American Music Review and for Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Mogollón Montagne also taught undergraduate courses at the University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music, where she received her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 2024.

Mogollón Montagne has worked in various areas of public or applied humanities ranging from reparative archival description to festival programming. As Latino Museum Studies Program fellow at the Smithsonian, she created “Queens of Latin Music” a free online accompanying material for the Entertainment Nation exhibit at the National Museum of American History. Later, she worked as program assistant at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage for the 2023 Folklife Festival “Creative Encounters: Living Religions in the U.S.” More recently, she completed a fellowship to improve accurate and inclusive description of the Briscoe Center for American History’s collections.

Her formal engagement with music started as a classically-trained flutist in El Sistema. She was a member of the National Flute Orchestra of Venezuela and the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in 2010, and served as a music educator for El Sistema programs in Venezuela and Denver, Colorado for three years. Additionally, she has received training in Afro-Venezuelan tambor at the Herencia tambor school in Caracas, Venezuela, and with other specialists in the diaspora. In 2024, Mogollón Montagne was a tambor the Guatire mentee for the San Juan Dallas’ organization through the Texas Folklife Apprenticeship Program.