Arts Division
M.A.
Graduate
No Mailstop
Savanna Solian is a 5th year doctoral candidate at UC Santa Cruz. She has a masters degree in music from UC Santa Cruz and a bachelor's degree in psychology from UC Davis. Along with her popular music research which investigates around the Beatles through a feminist lens, she is currently working on her dissertation which focuses on race, gender, and cancel-culture with the artist Lizzo as a case study.
Ph.D. Cross Cultural Musicology...in progress.
University of California, Santa Cruz
Masters of Art, Music...December 2023.
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Bachelors of Science, Psychology, Music Minor...June 2019.
University of California, Davis.
Conference presentations:
“Women’s Perspectives of Please Please Me.” International Beatles Symposium, School of Creative Performing Arts, Liverpool, UK. 2023.
Publications:
Solian, Savanna. "Book Review. Polarized Pasts: Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization.” Edited by Elisabeth Niklasson. California Archeology, March 29, 2024.
