More than two years of living with the COVID pandemic has changed how many of us approach our profession, including our work as researchers, scholars, musicians, teachers, and administrators. Like many other nonessential workers in the United States, I witnessed my workplace redefined overnight (literally) in the middle of March 2020, at the beginning of the first lockdown in the United States. Planned travel for research and conferences was canceled, and my university moved all teaching and administrative commitments online. Even as I experienced a level of isolation that was previously unimaginable, the widespread and long overdue adoption of Zoom and other online collaborative workspaces provided new opportunities to connect with colleagues, students, and professional organizations, and to virtually attend musical events around the world from my home office.
The combination of physical isolation and online connectivity is one of many paradoxes created by the pandemic's impact. While there is...
