Ellie Hisama Selected for Honorary Membership by the American Musicological Society
Congratulations to our Dean and Professor of Music Ellie Hisama as she was recently recognized by the American Musicological Society for her research, teaching of music, and extraordinary contributions to the Society. This is the AMS’s highest honour, awarded to very few members annually.
“ELLIE HISAMA (University of Toronto, Dean of the Faculty of Music and Professor of Music; Columbia University, Professor Emerita of Music), for her contributions to musicology, her distinguished teaching career, and her commitment to creating a more diverse, inclusive, and ethical profession. Equally at home in the fields of music theory and musicology, Hisama’s writings on the role of gender, sexuality, and race in musical modernity cover subjects ranging from twentieth-century modernists to hip hop.
She is the author of Gendering Musical Modernism and numerous articles in publications as diverse as Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Jazz & Culture, Popular Music, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She has worked with communities in and around her institutions to create new archives of music and art in initiatives including Future Sound 6ix at the University of Toronto and For the Daughters of Harlem at Columbia University. She has worked with numerous regional and international bodies dedicated to anti-racist agendas in the arts and in the academy, including Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity and Engaging Music, Race, & Gender.
Her exceptional relationship with tenure-track and mid-career faculty earned her Columbia’s inaugural Faculty Mentoring Award. The recipient of numerous fellowships, she is currently the Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, where she is working on a book about Julius Eastman.”
Please join us in congratulating our Dean and Professor Ellie Hisama on this wonderful recognition.
Click here to learn more about the American Musicological Society and read the official announcement about the 2024 Honorary Members.
