Chihiro Larissa Tsukamoto

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Ph.D Student

Chihiro Larissa Tsukamoto is a PhD candidate in Medieval Studies. Chihiro’s PhD dissertation studies how music was used for healing in the Ancient Greek, Byzantine, and Medieval Islamic worlds. The aim of this project is to try to reconstruct ancient and medieval music therapy in order to apply any useful practices to the fields of modern medicine and therapeutic music. To this aim, Chihiro has been a volunteer therapeutic harpist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. For their master’s thesis, Chihiro reconstructed Viking Age music by using Old Norse, Greek, Latin, Arabic, and archaeological sources with generous funding from the Leifur Eiriksson Foundation. Chihiro holds a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University and an M.A. in Medieval Icelandic Studies from the University of Iceland. Additionally, Chihiro has studied piano and percussion at the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, and the Manhattan School of Music; and ballet at Barnard College, Steps on Broadway, and Boston Ballet.

Department: 
Medieval Studies
Fields of Interest: 
Mediterranean, Middle East, music history, medical history