Rate My Professor Halina Goldberg

Goldberg's research centers on interconnected Polish and Jewish cultures, exploring cultural studies, music and politics, performance practice, and reception, with a special focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Poland and Eastern Europe, Chopin, and Jewish studies. Her major publications include the monograph Music in Chopin’s Warsaw (Oxford University Press, 2008; Polish translation, 2016); edited volumes such as The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries (Indiana University Press, 2004), Chopin and His World (Princeton University Press, 2017, co-edited with Jonathan Bellman), Descriptive Piano Fantasias (A-R Editions, 2021, co-edited with Jonathan Bellman), and Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery (Rutgers University Press, 2023, co-edited with Nancy Sinkoff); and a special issue of The Musical Quarterly titled “Jewish Spirituality, Modernity, and Historicism in the Long Nineteenth Century: New Musical Perspectives.” Her article “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, received the 2021 H. Colin Slim Award from the American Musicological Society. Goldberg has been honored with the 1998 Wilk Award for Research in Polish Music, a 2005-06 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant, the 2025 Distinguished Faculty Research Award, and designation as one of six Distinguished Professors at Indiana University in 2026. She directs the Digital Scholarly Commons on Jewish Life in Pre-World War II Łódź and co-designed the multimedia exhibit “In Mrs. Goldberg’s Kitchen,” nominated for the 2012 Sybilla Award for Historical Exhibits.