Shana L. Redmond(Born April 6,1980) is an English and Comparative Literature professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race at Columbia University. She is currently president of the American Studies Association and a recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.[1][2]
Shana L. Redmond | |
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| Born | April 6,1980 (age 44) Racine, Wisconsin U.S. |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2023) |
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| Discipline | Comparative Literature Musicology |
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Biography
editRedmond received her B.A. from Macalester College, where she trained as a vocalist, and her Ph.D. from Yale University.[3] She is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, culture, and power with a specialization in the intersection of music and the black radical tradition.[4] She also taught musicology and jazz studies at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.[5]
Redmond is the author of Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (2020), which received multiple book awards, including a 2021 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Three Columbians Win Guggenheim Fellowships". Columbia News. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ "2022-23 President Shana L. Redmond". American Studies Association. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
- ^ "Shana Redmond". Department of African American Studies. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ "Shana Redmond". The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ "Musicologist Shana Redmond contributes to award-nominated documentary about Harlem and music". UCLA. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-Second Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS". John Giorno Foundation. August 23, 2021. Retrieved April 21, 2023.