Anna Hersey is near completion of the Master of Arts degree in musicology/ethnomusicology at the University of Minnesota. She spent a year at the Universitá di Bologna as a Rotary International Scholar where she studied with Lorenzo Bianconi, and was the recipient of a Ted and Roberta Mann Scholarship at the University of Minnesota. In 2006 she presented her research findings on William Byrd and Catholicism at the North American British Music Studies Association's biennial conference, and recently presented an ethnography of the St. Olaf Catholic Church African International Choir at the University of Minnesota Graduate Student Symposium. She has worked as a docent at the Schubert Club's Museum of Musical Instruments, as program notes editor at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, as catalogue assistant at the University of Minnesota Music Library, and as a teaching scholar for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, where she taught a course on Tuscan history. Miss Hersey's current research interests include 17th-century Latin dialogue motets and the Swedish songs of Jean Sibelius. Her thesis, "Tenete il ritmo, se ci riuscite: A Historically Informed Ethnography of Siena's Palio," focuses on musical aspects of the famed Palio horse race. Fieldwork and research in Italy were supported by a generous Walter H. Judd International Graduate Fellowship, a Northwest Airlines World Travel Scholarship, and a research grant from the University of Minnesota Graduate School. In October 2008 she will present a portion of her research at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference at Wesleyan University. Her advisor is Professor Kelley Harness.