Sam Reenan (PhD) joined the faculty at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of Music Theory in Fall 2021. He previously served as Lecturer in Music at Hamilton College.

Reenan is a dedicated educator and teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses across all stages of the music the theory curriculum. He is the current Director of Graduate Studies for Miami’s Music Department. A proponent of the teacher-scholar model, he has been a participant in programs including the Miami Plan Innovation Lab (Summer 2024), Advancing Teacher Scholars faculty learning community (2023–2024), the Howe Faculty Fellows program (Spring 2023), and the New Faculty Teaching Enhancement Program (Fall 2021).

Issues of symphonic thought, genre mixture, large-scale form, and identity figure prominently in Reenan’s research program. His forthcoming book project, titled Symphonic Spectacles: Form, Identity, and Hybridity in the Early Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, May 2025) examines these issues across a range of Germanic, American, and British symphonic works. His writings are published in Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online (2022, 2016), Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and Music & Letters. He has presented his research at scholarly conferences across Europe and North America, including in Italy, Belgium, England, and France.

Reenan is a co-organizer of the Composers of Color Resource Project and a member-at-large on the Society for American Music’s Education Committee. He served as editorial assistant with Music Theory Online from 2017–2021 and is a past co-editor of Intégral, where he led the journal’s transition to an online, open-access format. He is currently the Web Manager for the Music Theory Society of New York State.

Reenan holds an MA and PhD in music theory from the Eastman School of Music and degrees in music theory and biological sciences from the University of Connecticut.