Dr. Eve Georges Sada

Ethnomusicologist · Choral Conductor · Researcher · Assyrian Cultural Scholar

Dr. Sada is Assyrian; she was born and raised in Iraq.
She holds a Master’s degree in Music Education (2010) and a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Choral Conducting (2021), both from the University of Oklahoma.

She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), Harvard Divinity School.
Her doctoral research was entitled “Assyrian-Syriac Chants from the Liturgy of the Church of the East”. In it, she examined some of the earliest surviving chants and hymns composed between the 4th-7th centuries by figures such as Mar Aprem (Ephrem) and Mar Narsai.
She analyzed the major hymnody genres within the Church of the East, including Soghyāthā, Madrāshe, Tešbḥatha, \`Onyatha, and Memre.
Her work also included discussion of the earliest known church women’s choirs.

Dr. Sada has also worked in Jordan in academic roles, including in the University of Jordan, contributing to music education and school music environments.
She has publications in both liturgical (sacred) and secular Assyrian/Chants traditions, and participates in preserving Assyrian chant heritage and increasing its visibility in the academy and broader community.
She won the Provost’s Dissertation Award for Humanities & Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma for her doctoral work.