Lisa McCormick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. Her research in music draws on her background as a conservatory-trained cellist. She is the author of Performing Civility (Cambridge University Press 2015), the first study analysing the social aspects of international classical music competitions. For the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw in 2021, she was invited by the Chopin Institute to co-host “Chopin Talk”, an interview segment that was part of the English-language coverage of the competition livestreamed on YouTube for a global audience. In 2022, she guest edited a special issue on the cultural sociology of art and music for the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. This was expanded into an edited collection that was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Her articles have appeared in Cultural Sociology, The Chopin Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Contemporary Social Science, and Sociologia & Anthropologia. From 2016-2020, she was co-editor of Cultural Sociology, an official journal of the British Sociological Association.
