Veronika KUSZ PhD (*1980), musicologist, senior research fellow at the the Institute for Musicology, Budapest. She graduated in musicology at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, in 2003, where she earned her PhD in 2010. As a Fulbright -scholar, she spent an academic year in 2005‒2006 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, conducting research at the American Dohnányi collections. She has been working at Institute for Musicology, Budapest, since 2002. She has been advisor and lecturer at the Doctoral School of the Liszt Academy of Music since 2015. She has been awarded several scholarships (Fulbright, 2005‒2006; Kodály 2005, 2006, 2008; Bolyai, 2015‒2018, 2019‒2022, and ÚNKP, 2019‒2021) and awards: the Academic Youth Prize (by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2016), Bolyai Plaquette (2019), and the Kroó György Plaquette. She has published articles in Notes, American Music, Journal of the American Harp Society, The Pan, and Studia Musicologica among others. Her books include: Járdányi Pál / Pál Járdányi (Mágus 2004, second edition: BMC, 2016), Dohnányi amerikai évei [Dohnányi’s American years] (Rózsavölgyi, 2015), A Wayfaring Stranger: Ernst von Dohnányi’s American Years (University of California Press, 2020), Dohnányi Ernő: Válogatott írások és nyilatkozatok [Ernő Dohnányi: Selected writings and statements] (Rózsavölgyi, 2020).