MAJOR FIELD

Musicology


SPECIAL INTEREST

Twentieth-Century Music; American and African-American Music


POSITION

Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty,, Louisiana, Assistant Professor, Music History, 1998-present

University,  Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor, Music History, 1997-1998

Assistant Professor, Music Department,  College of Arts and Sciences,, ARkansas 1992-1997


EDUCATION

Ph.D., Musicology, Yale University,
M. Phil., Musicology, Yale University,  B.A.,
Music, Yale College,

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

M.M., Composition, The Hartt School, University of Hartford, 2002 (in residence 1990-1992)


HONORS AND AWARDS

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship, 2004-2005, to research and write book, William Grant Still in New York: The Early Career of William Grant Still.
ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, Symphonic article category, for article, “‘Dean of Afro-American Composers’” or ‘Harlem Renaissance Man’: The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Still,” in A Study in Contradictions, Essays Toward a Biography of William Grant Still, Co-editor with Catherine Parsons Smith (University of California Press, 2000), 2001


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Musicological Society
International Musicological Society
Society for American Music (formerly the Sonneck Society)
Center for Black Music Research
International Association for the Study of Popular Music—United States Branch
American Folklore Society
American Studies Association
Society for Music Theory
Society for Ethnomusicology
College Music Society
Society of Composers, Inc.


COMPOSITION

Studied composition with James Sellars, Hartt School of Music,  Connecticut, 1990-91.


PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

Keyboardist, The Millennium Band, September 2003-present, May-June 2000, a blues-R&B band performing soul, R&B, and blues selections of the 1960s-1990s.