The Center is delighted to announce that our project to repatriate Laura Boulton's 1946 Alaska recordings has been funded by the National Science Foundation with a two-year Early Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) of $136,000.
Hearty congratulations are in order for a number of Columbia Ethnomusicology students:
First, three students are now alumni! We congratulate Andrew Eisenberg, Morgan Luker, and Ryan Skinner, each of whom has successfully defended his dissertation.
We also congratulate Tyler Bickford, winner of a Columbia University Whiting Fellowship.
Congratulations to Farzaneh Hemmasi, who has won a dissertation fellowship for 2009-10 from the Middle East Institute.
Congratulations to Sara Snyder, who has won a summer research fellowship from the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
With great pleasure, The Center for Ethnomusicology announces that Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa has assumed the Directorship of the Center.
Prof. Aaron Fox, who has Directed the Center since 2003, is stepping down to become Chair of the Music Department. He will continue to be affiliated with the Center.
About Ana Maria Ochoa:
Professor Ochoa is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University. She holds a Ph D in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana University (1996). Her areas of interest include music and cultural policy, music and armed conflict, intellectual property, and intellectual histories of sound and music in Latin America, with emphasis on Colombia. Prof. Ochoa taught previously at Columbia (2003-2005) and at New York University (2005-2008). She is the former director of the Music Archives of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. She has also been a researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (Colombia) as well as at The Centro Nacional de Información, Investigación y Documentación Musical Carlos Chávez (CENIDIM) in Mexico.
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The Center for Ethnomusicology and the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at Columbia University
Annual Report for 2007-8
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2007-8 has been a very busy and successful year for the Center for Ethnomusicology and the Ethnomusicology graduate program at Columbia, and there is an abundance of good news to report!
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