Welcome to the professional site of Dr. Samuel N. Dorf, Professor of Music at the University of Dayton.

Samuel N. Dorf, Ph.D. is a teacher, scholar, artist, parent, husband, advocate and friend. He received a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Northwestern University in 2009. Dr. Dorf has published articles dealing with the performance and reinvention of ancient Greek music and dance in fin-de-siècle Paris, and queer music reception and has presented papers at history, queer studies, dance history, archaeology, and musicology conferences throughout North America and Europe. As a scholar he often writes on the continual performance and reinvention of music and dance from the ancient world and the complex relationship between scholars and their objects of study. He has won awards, grants, travel funds, and fellowships from The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, The University of Dayton, The Ohio Humanities Council, Northwestern University, Harvard University, the Society of Dance History Scholars, and the American Musicological Society. His monograph, Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He wishes he could play the viola da gamba better and vows to keep practicing. Being a husband and a dad is still his favorite role.