Nicole Vilkner is associate professor of music at Duquesne University. Her research spans nineteenth-century music, opera, salon, and sound studies. She has published and has forthcoming articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Cambridge Opera Journal, American Music, and Journal of the Royal Musical Association, among others. Her work on The Soundwalk Project, an ongoing initiative in which she leads teams of students to design and launch multimedia soundwalk installations at historic sites in collaboration with community partners, has received substantial institutional support and recognition. This includes Duquesne’s Creative Teaching Award, three John G. Rangos Sr. Prizes, the Catalyst Fellowship, and the Gaultier Fellowship. The next soundwalk installation is slated to launch in spring 2027 at the nineteenth-century historic village at Meadowcroft, a Heinz History Center site and Smithsonian affiliate.