Jeremy Eichler

Jeremy Eichler

Jeremy Eichler

Research/Areas of Interest

Music and memory, European cultural history, art and trauma, Holocaust, exile, modernism, criticism, public humanities, 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 of the Department of History. 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." It was also the recipient of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society for "scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity."

Eichler earned his PhD in European History from Columbia University, and his work has been supported by a Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as a fellowship from Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Prior to arriving at Tufts, he served for 18 years as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe. In 2024, he was named the first Writer-in-Residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.