Nathan Reeves is a musicologist specializing in popular music and vernacular culture in early modernity, with complementary research interests in Mediterranean studies, global studies, social history, and ethnomusicology. His work explores how music provided modes of contact, communication, and conflict in the Mediterranean world, focusing especially on the dynamic region of southern Italy. His dissertation, titled “Urban Space, Buon Governo, and Plebe Musicians in Spanish Naples from the Mid-Sixteenth to the Early Seventeenth Century,” draws on extensive archival research to investigate how urban reforms of Naples during the Spanish regime of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries impacted patterns of musical life among the city’s diverse lower classes. Reeves’s work has been supported by the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples and the Renaissance Society of America. His most recent publication examines music-making among enslaved and convict populations on Mediterranean galley ships, appearing in the edited collection Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes, c. 1550-1860. Reeves has previously taught at Northwestern University, Western Michigan University, and DePaul University.