(BA in Music History and Journalism from Loyola University; MA in Ethnomusicology, Columbia 2001; MPhil, Columbia, 2003) came to Columbia with a background in popular music journalism. Her MA thesis was entitled “Women Making a Scene: Marketing, Feminism, and Image in the New York City Rock Music Scenes”). She has served as a TA for the Music Humanities course at Columbia, and as an assistant editor for the Yearbook for Traditional Music She is currently conducting doctoral field research on the "Ladyfest" women's music festival in the Pacific Northwest. She recently presented a paper on the critical reception of the music of Courtney Love and the band Hole at the 2003 national meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
ekk12@ columbia . edu