Jacob Collins

Education

Course Taught

MUSI 10033 - Survey of Jazz

About

Jacob Collins is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology and a teaching fellow at the University of North Texas. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education and a master’s degree in musicology from Texas Christian University. Collins’s primary research area is jazz and popular music. His secondary research topic is video game music. Collins’s dissertation addresses the intersections of jazz and Black popular music as it relates to jazz historiography. He is concerned with exploring how jazz exists outside of established jazz history, and his research often focuses on musicians which end up stuck between jazz and popular music for one reason or another. Collins has a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound (2024) edited by William Gibbons and Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard entitled “Game Noir: The Functions of Jazz in the Detective Adventure Video Game.” He won the Hewitt-Oberdoerffer Award for best student submission from the American Musicological Society-Southwest Chapter and has presented at their regional conference. Additionally, he won the Berger-Carter-Berger Research Fellowship from the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Collins’s other conference presentations include the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, as well as graduate and subject specific conferences at Yale and Cornell. Outside of musicology, Collins loves to garden and play video games.