Joshua Neumann is a PhD candidate in historical musicology at the University of Florida, where he is a College of Fine Arts Humanities Teaching Fellow. He served two terms as the president of the Graduate Student Council and as a student senator in the UF Faculty Senate. His dissertation, “Towards Defining Tradition: Statistical Analysis, Performance, and Puccini’s Turandot,” examines the past 50+ years of performance practice tradition in productions of Puccini’s final work at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.