Research/Areas of Interest
Music and memory, European cultural history, art and trauma, Holocaust, exile, modernism, criticism, public humanities, public history, creative nonfiction, music and nature, environmental humanities.
Education
- PhD, Columbia University, New York City, United States
- MA, Columbia University, New York City, United States
- BA, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Biography
Jeremy Eichler is the John McCann Assistant Professor of Music at Tufts University, and a faculty affiliate in the History and English departments. He is the author of Time's Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023), which was named "History Book of the Year" by The Sunday Times of London and described as "the outstanding music book of this and several years" by The Times Literary Supplement. Chosen as a notable book of 2023 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR, it won three National Jewish Book Awards including "Book of the Year." Currently being translated into ten languages, Time's Echo is also the first book about music to receive the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, given annually by the Phi Beta Kappa Society to a work that "contributes significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity."
Prior to arriving at Tufts, Eichler served for 18 years as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe, where his criticism received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and multiple nominations for the Pulitzer Prize. He remains committed to exploring new directions in the public humanities, and in 2023, he created Echo Lab -- an ongoing public history and memory project integrating archival multimedia, narrative, and live performance -- whose premiere was chosen by Musical America as the top Boston musical event of the year. In 2024, he served as the first Humanist-in-Residence of Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music, and the first Writer-in-Residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Eichler earned his PhD in European History from Columbia University, and his work has been supported by a fellowship from Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Prior to arriving at Tufts, Eichler served for 18 years as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe, where his criticism received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and multiple nominations for the Pulitzer Prize. He remains committed to exploring new directions in the public humanities, and in 2023, he created Echo Lab -- an ongoing public history and memory project integrating archival multimedia, narrative, and live performance -- whose premiere was chosen by Musical America as the top Boston musical event of the year. In 2024, he served as the first Humanist-in-Residence of Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music, and the first Writer-in-Residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Eichler earned his PhD in European History from Columbia University, and his work has been supported by a fellowship from Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.