2019 – Present

2019 – Present

2015 – Present

2019

2015 – 2019

2017 – 2018

2007 – 2015

2015

2013 – 2015

2012

2011 – 2015

2011

2009 – 2011

2005 – 2008

2001-2012

Founder / Owner – VaughnCarlos Education LLC, DBA Music Universe

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History – University of Redlands

Music Teacher / Choir Director – Good Shepherd Catholic School (Beverly Hills, CA)

Instructor – UCLA Herb Albert School of Music, Department of Music Industry 

Adjunct Faculty – Chapman University

Teaching Assistant – UCLA Sixties Cluster

Private Voice and Piano Instructor 

Class Voice Instructor – Chapman University Summer Choral Camp

Liturgy Ensemble Director – St. Nobert Catholic Church (Orange, CA)

Interim Music Director – St. Cecilia Catholic Church (Tustin, CA)

Music Teacher – St. Columban Catholic School (Garden Grove, CA)

Long-term Substitute Music Teacher – St. Hedwig Catholic School (Los Alamitos, CA)

Voice Instructor – Community School for the Arts, University of Redlands

Concert Music Teacher (Christmas & Spring Concerts) – St. Cecilia Catholic School (Tustin, CA)

Cantor; VBS Music Director 

2019

2018

          2011

                                       2009

          2008

        

Dean’s Medal, UCLA Herb Albert School of Music 

Ciro Zoppo Graduate Student Award, UCLA

Graduate Student Service Award, University of Redlands School of Music 

Music History Award, Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music

Academic Excellence Award, Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music 

2019

                  2015, 2018

                   2015, 2018

                  2016  

                    2011

                  2009 

Dissertation Year Fellowship,  UCLA

Mellon Fellowship of Distinction, UCLA

Pauley Fellowship, UCLA

Graduate Research Mentorship, UCLA

Graduate Full Tuition Scholarship, USC 

Graduate Assistantship,  University of Redlands

Caitlin Vaughn Carlos. ’Ramble On’: Tolkien, Urban Criticism and Romantic protest in Led Zeppelin” The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism.  Eds. Kristen Yri, Stephen Meyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)        

 

        

Caitlin Vaughn Carlos. “Historical Nostalgia, Nature and the Future in Three Iconic Albums from 1971: Aqualung, Who’s Next  and Led Zeppelin IV” Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts. Ed. Tina Frühauf (Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2020).Caitlin 

Caitlin Vaughn Carlos. “I Must Remember, Even If It Takes a Million Years: Nostalgic Futurism in Pete Townshend’s Lifehouse Project” Lied und populaere Kulture 64, (2019): 155-169. 

Caitlin Vaughn Carlos, “Eight-Track Nostalgia: Finding Abbey Road at the Nexus of Progress and Reflection. Produce Like a Pro. April 18, 2020.    https://producelikeapro.com/blog/eight-track-nostalgia-finding-abbey-road-at-the-nexus-of-progress-and-reflection/

Papers Presented

March 2018

International Association for the Study of Popular Music – US Branch, 2019 Annual Conference

Title: “Out in the Country”: Rural Romanticism, The Western and Folk Ideology in American Rock Music at the Turn of the 1970s

March 2015

Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts International Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY                                 

Title: The Problem of Historical Nostalgia, Nature and the Future in Three Iconic Albums from 1971: Aqualung, Who’s Next and Led Zeppelin IV

 

Papers Accepted

 

Middle Ages in the Modern World, Rome (November 2018)

Title: Religious Medievalism as a Gateway to Pastness in Jethro Tull’s Aqualung and A Passion Play

 

Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of Campinas,

Brazil (July 2015)

Title: The Problem of Historical Nostalgia, Nature and the Future in Three Iconic Albums from 1971: Aqualung, Who’s Next and Led Zeppelin IV

2019-present       

2018-present      

2019      

2017-2018          

 2017                       

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Honors Student Thesis Committee, University of Redlands, Member

Reviewer for Online Digital Content Platform, Norton – The Enjoyment of Music 13th edition

General Education (Artistic Inquiry) Assessment Reviewer / Instructor, Chapman University 

Honors Capstone Thesis Advisor, Chapman University 

Independent Consultant – Curriculum Content Development, Prodigies Music LLC