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Savanna Solian is a doctoral candidate. 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 online community, race, gender, and cancel-culture using 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.
Art's Dean Fund for Excellence and Equity... 2023
Music Graduate Research Fellowship... 2023
“Women’s Perspectives of Please Please Me.” International Beatles Symposium,
Liverpool, UK, 2023.
Solian, Savanna. "Book Review. Polarized Pasts: Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization.” Edited by Elisabeth Niklasson. California Archeology, March 29, 2024.
