About

Wozniak is an Early-Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Associate at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, as well as a Guest Researcher at the University of Heidelberg’s Collective Research Centre 1671 Heimat(en). Her research examines music, labor, and cultural diplomacy in Türkiye and its diasporas, with particular attention to how musical communities negotiate questions of identity, belonging, and state power. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Harvard University and has held fellowships from the American Research Institute in Turkey, Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations and the British Institute at Ankara, and the Fulbright-Hays DDRA program. She also holds degrees from the London School of Economics, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and Wellesley College.

Alongside her scholarly work, Wozniak maintains an international career as a violinist whose performances frequently cross musical and cultural boundaries. Originally trained in Western classical music, she has spent nearly a decade studying Turkish makam-based music through apprenticeship with master musicians and performing within its living traditions. Her work has appeared in concert halls, museums, and experimental performance spaces worldwide, including premieres at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, and James Turrell’s Skyspace in Austin. In 2023 she was appointed Artist-in-Residence at the I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies, Harvard University’s research institute in Florence, where she performed and recorded programs exploring resonances between Renaissance microtonality and Ottoman makam traditions.

A committed public communicator and advocate for cross-cultural understanding, Wozniak frequently works at the intersection of scholarship, performance, and cultural diplomacy. She is the creator and host of Türkiye’yi Dinliyorum (“I’m Listening to Türkiye”), a musical travel documentary series on Turkish National Television in which she interviews and performs with leading culture-bearers of the country’s diverse musical traditions. In addition to frequent appearances on Turkish National Television and Radio, she has been profiled in international media outlets including Marie Claire and Bloomberg HT and is regularly invited to speak and perform at cultural institutes, universities, and international forums. Her ongoing projects also include an academic monograph, museum-based multimedia installation and performances that invite audiences to experience unfamiliar musical worlds through sound, space, and storytelling.