Category: Alumni Section
PhD, Columbia University, 1998
“From Peasant to Indian: A Study of the Tore Ritual Songs and the Creation of Tradition in a Brazilian Indian Community.” Currently teaching at Universidade Federal da Bahia.
PhD, Columbia University, 1997
“Choral Musics in Maputo, Mozambique: Urban Adaptation, Nation Building and the Performance of Identity.” Currently teaching at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Adriana Helbig (BA in German and Music with honors
from Drew University in 1997; MA and MPhil in Ethnomusicology from
Columbia) has completed and defended (May 2005) her dissertation, which
analyzes the influences of international development aid on Roma music
traditions in Ukraine. Her research interests include the relationship
between music and politics, music and social movements, music and
migration, and issues of race, class, and gender in Eastern European
hip hop. She works with Roma non-government organizations in Ukraine,
translates the largest Internet-based Roma newspaper in the CIS into
English (www.romaniyag.uz.ua/en), and consults members of the Ukrainian
government on national minority affairs. In 2006, she participated as a
policy analyst in the Civil Society and Democracy in Ukraine project
sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in
Washington D.C. Her published works in English include an article
titled “The Cyberpolitics of Music in Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution”
Current Musicology 82; a book chapter titled “Changing Discourses of
Race and Place: NGOs, European Integration, and the Roma in Ukraine” In
Civil Society and Democracy in Ukraine. Edited by Paul D’Anieri,
Dominique Arel, and Blair Ruble. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University
Press, forth.); and a book review of The World of Mykola Lysenko:
Ethnic Identity, Music, and Politics in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Century Ukraine. By Taras Filenko and Tamara Bulat. (Toronto: Ukraine
Millennium Foundation Press, 2001). World of Music Vol. 48 (1):
100-102. Her article “Ukraine: Performing Politics” published in
Transitions Online No. 156 (February 27, 2006) was reprinted in
Italian, Hungarian, and Russian translation on various policy websites
and list-services. A member of SEM and ICTM, she is also affiliated
with the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University and will
teach a course on post-socialist music traditions in the Spring of
2007. A classical pianist who received her training at the Vienna
Conservatory, she has taught the Music Humanities course at Columbia
University and presently teaches Music History at Fordham University.
Her doctoral research in Ukraine was sponsored by a Fulbright U.S.
Student grant.
Email: anh5@columbia.edu
Click here to download Adriana’s dissertation titled “Play for me, Old Gypsy: Music as Political Resource in the Roma Rights Movement in Ukraine”
Matt Sakakeeny (B. Mus., Peabody Conservatory 1994;
M.A. in Musicology, Tulane University 2004; M.A. in Ethnomusicology,
Columbia University, 2005; Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, 2008) is interested how music intersects with
race, economics, and politics, particularly in the performance of
African American music. Matt is living in New Orleans, where he is
completing the dissertation "Instruments of Power: New Orleans Brass
Bands and the Politics of Performance" with fellowship support from the
National Science Foundation and the Whiting Foundation. His MA thesis,
"American
Afrobeat: Transnational, Intercultural, and Multiracial" was written in
2005. Previously, he worked as the co-producer of the public radio show
American Routes in
New Orleans. In Fall 2008, he will be taking a position of Assistant
Professor in the Department of Music at Tulane University.
Email: mks2104@olumbia.edu
(B.A. 2001, Music History, University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A. 2003, M.Phil 2005, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University.)
Morgan’s
research interests include cultural policy, the cultural industries,
music and economic development, cultural tourism, transnationalism,
aesthetics, and the uses of music history. He has conducted research on
several musical genres, including contemporary Argentine tango,
“downtown” improvised music, and world music. Morgan’s undergraduate
work on avant-garde bassist and producer Bill Laswell received the
Hilldale award for undergraduate research at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison. His M.A. thesis, “Tonight at Tonic: Practicing
Place in a New York Art World” (2003), examined how musical values were
cultivated for non-institutionalized “high art” musics by a
transnational avant-garde music community centered on the nightclub
Tonic, and how that community made sense of the rapid economic
transformation the neighborhood in which the club was physically and
symbolically emplaced was then undergoing.
Morgan’s current
dissertation research focuses on music and cultural policy in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, where he will be conducting fieldwork until the fall
of 2007. Taking contemporary tango as its case, this project
concentrates on the contested interconnections between the activities
of musicians who have self-consciously returned to tango as means of
re-exploring and re-articulating their identities as Argentines
following the 2001 economic crisis and the cultural policies of the
city government of Buenos Aires which channel and promote tango as an
economic resource for the city and its citizens, primarily through
programs that aim to develop the local cultural industries and cultural
tourism. An article on themusical side of this equation, “Tango
Renovación: On the Uses of Music History in Post-Crisis Argentina,”
will appear in the forthcoming issue of Latin American Music Review
(28:1, Spring/Summer 2007). Morgan has presented his work at the annual
meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), the American
Anthropological Society (AAA), the US and Latin American branches of
the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM),
and elsewhere. At Columbia, Morgan has served as the assistant editor
of Current Musicology and as an instructor in the Music Humanities core course.
Email: mjl2003@columbia.edu
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(BA: New York University 1992, MA and MPhil, Columbia University) wrote
her Masters thesis, "African Cuban Sacred Music in Performance: Felipe
García Villamil and Grupo Emikeké of New York," on the relationship
between ritual space and African Cuban liturgical music in the North
American urban context. Her dissertation in progress is an exploration
of a Haitian immigrant processional genre that serves to affirm
shifting ethnic, religious and class identities in the Dominican
Republic. It is entitled "Gaga in the Dominican Republic: The
Construction of Identities through Performance." Her interests include
ritual musics of the African diaspora and transnational musics in the
context of migration within the Caribbean region, and Caribbean
immigration to the United States.
Email: mel23@columbia.edu
mlandies@earthlink.net
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(BA in Music History and Journalism from Loyola University; MA in
Ethnomusicology, Columbia 2001; MPhil, Columbia, 2003; PhD, Columbia, 2008). Elizabeth has presented her work at a variety of conferences, including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Society for American Music, the International Association of Popular Music-US, the Experience Music Project Pop Conference, and Feminist Theory and Music. In 2008, she was awarded the Wong Tolbert Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology's Section on the Status of Women; in 2007 she was awarded the Lise Waxer Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Her interests include gender, politics, and popular music in the United States.
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(B.M. from NYU in jazz performance) is currently conducting research for a dissertation on music (
taarab, ngoma,
and hip hop), acoustemology and ethnic identity politics in Mombasa,
Kenya. The research is being supported by Fulbright-Hays and the Social
Science Research Council, and is being conducted in consultation with
the newly-formed Institute of Swahili Studies within the National
Museums of Kenya.
Website: http://www.andreweisenberg.com
Email: aje11@columbia.edu
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lesgay@utk.edu
PhD Columbia University, 1991
“Commitment, cohesion, and creative process: A study of New York City rock bands”
hcethnomus@aol.com
PhD Columbia University, 1977
“The Impact of Labor Migration on Music in Urban Ghana: The Case of Kpehe Gome”
areyes1@nj.rr.com
PhD, Columbia University, 1975
"The Role of Music in the Interaction of Black Americans and Hispanos in New York City's East Harlem"
saojose@eselx.ipl.pt
PhD Columbia University, 2000
"Cultural policy and musical expression in Lisbon in the transition from dictatorship to democracy (1960s--1980s)"
murphy@unt.edu
PhD, Columbia University, 1994
"Performing a Moral Vision: An Ethnography of Cavalo-Marinho, a Brazilian Music Drama"
sp25@columbia.edu
PhD, Columbia University, 1992
"Hausa Roko and Maroka: Social Dimensions of Professional Entertainment in Argungu, Northern Nigeria"
kfikents@ramapo.edu
PhD, Columbia University, 1996
"'You better work!': Music, Dance, and Marginality in Underground Dance Clubs of New York City"
