Dr. Hieb joined the faculty of West Texas A&M University’s School of Music in 2016. She completed a Ph.D. in musicology at the University of British Columbia in 2015 and holds a master’s degree in musicology from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor’s of Music from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research has been supported by the Austrian Exchange Agency, a Eugene K. Wolf travel grant from the American Musicological Society, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Austria. She has presented her research, which takes up questions of genre and religious and political representation in early modern music, at conferences both nationally and internationally.