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Donate Congratulations to this year’s Eileen Southern Scholars! All were awarded an Eileen Southern Travel Grant to support their attendance of the Society’s 2024 Annual Meeting. Thank you to all who applied and to the members of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund (ESTF) Committee, which provides guidance and mentorship for participants in the Eileen Southern Travel Grant program.
Isaiah Chapman
Simmons University
Areas of Interest: Afro-diasporic—African, Caribbean, and Black American—music genres and idioms; Black composers; Harlem Renaissance; historical performance; archives and music librarianship; physical and human geography; narratology; structuralism; intellectual history; genealogy.
Hannah Jackson
Howard University
Areas of Interest: 20th-century Black American popular music, Black sacred music, and music and social justice.
Feiyang Liu
Davidson College
Areas of Interest: Popular music, digital studies, media studies, and Chinese music.
Jazmine Marsalis
Northeastern University
Areas of Interest: The origins of African American musical expression. I would like to explore how this musical expression is spread throughout predominantly Black communities, and its impacts.
Zora Pattillo
North Carolina Central University
Areas of Interest: Curatorial Work (Exhibition), Music in Healthcare (Music Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy); approaches to music therapy, Teaching Artistry, Music and Pedagogy, Music Performance (General) and Performance Anxiety/Stage Fright, Music in Multimedia/Cinema (Music Industry Platforms), Black Musician Representation, Various careers in music: Musicologists and Music Journalists/Critics/Bloggers/Reporters, Storytelling, Song and Creative Writing, Interviews.
