William O'hara
Director, Gettysburg Seminars And Skills Program at Gettysburg College
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolWilliam O'hara is a music and media scholar and academic leader who blends deep expertise in music theory with an active interest in digital transformation across higher education and the music industry. As Director of Gettysburg Seminars and Skills Program and a professor researching film and video game music, recomposition, and online musical practices, he designs courses that integrate composition, media production, and new pedagogical technologies. His scholarship appears in top journals and he combines traditional music-theoretical work—such as studies of chromatic harmony in Amy Beach—with investigations of contemporary practices like YouTube performance and video game soundtracks. He has a strong track record in instructional design and digital pedagogy from roles at HarvardX and the Derek Bok Center, and he regularly contributes service and technical leadership to professional societies (including webmaster duties for the SMT video journal). Colleagues value him for mentoring student research and for translating scholarly inquiry into practical consulting on sound and music for games, apps, and social media. Based in the DC–Baltimore area with a PhD from Harvard, he brings a rare mix of rigorous scholarship, hands-on media production experience, and administrative ambition.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. Music Theory, M.A. Music Theory at University of Wisconsin-MadisonPh.D. Music Theory, Ph.D. Music Theory at Harvard UniversityPh.D. Coursework Music Theory, Ph.D. Coursework Music Theory at University at BuffaloB.Mus. Music Education, B.Mus. Music Education at Miami University
English, German, French
Github Skills (6)
jekyll7
smt7
journal4
theory3
music-theory3
music3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
woh2822/smtv-dev
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:175 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
woh2822/Arduino-Projects
May 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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