Alumni Section
Congratulations to him on his new job and to him and Johanna for their
new baby, Nils Erik.
We congratulate her on the successful defense of her superb dissertation
on April 14.
We offer our congratulations to Dr. Maurea Landies, who successfully defended her doctoral disseratation on Haitian/Dominican Gaga/Rara music on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. Her dissertation was sponsored by Prof. Chris Washburne.
Congratulations to Matt Sakakeeny who won the Charles Seeger Prize for the most distinguished student paper presented at SEM and Elizabeth Keenan for winning the Wong Tolbert Award for best student paper on the topic of women.
We offer warm congratulations to Elizabeth Keenan, who defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Acting Like a Lady: Third Wave Feminism, Popular Music, and the White Middle Class, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2008.
Congratulations are in order for Elizabeth K. Keenan, who won the 2007 Lise Waxer Prize for the best student paper on popular music for her paper given at the 2006 SEM conference in Hawai'i, "Straightyfest, Ladyquest, Ladyfest: Femininity, Sexuality, and Third Wave Feminism at Young Women's Rock Music Festivals." The Lise Waxer Prize is sponsored by the Popular Music Section of SEM.
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Columbia ethnomusicology PhD
Amanda Minks (PhD 2005) is now teaching anthropology in the
Honors College of the University of Oklahoma. Congratulations to Dr. Minks!
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"
