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Ellie M. Hisama
Professor
Columbia University
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Biography
Specialization: popular music; music by women; American music; critical studies of gender/sexuality/race
B. A., University of Chicago (1987); Ph.D., City University of New York 1996). Professor Hisama's major research areas are popular music, music
by women, gender and sexuality studies, American music, and Asian merican music and criticism. She is a former Director of the Institute
for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College and Founding Editor of the /Journal of the Society for American Music/ published by Cambridge University Press. She has received major fellowships from the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities for her work in popular
music studies, and has worked as an evaluator for the Fulbright
Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American
Musicological Society. She is the author of Gendering Musical
Modernism: The Music of Marion Bauer, Ruth Crawford, and Miriam Gideon
(Cambridge University Press, [2001] 2005) and co-editor of Ruth
Crawford Seeger's Worlds (University of Rochester Press, 2007) and Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies (Institute for
Studies in American Music, 2005). She has published numerous essays on
feminist music theory, Joan Armatrading, David Bowie, The Cure, and John
Zorn. She serves on the editorial boards or as an advisory editor of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Perspectives of New
Music, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Echo: a music-centered
journal. She is the second woman to receive tenure in Columbia's
Department of Music, and currently serves as its Vice Chair.
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