Ethics Committee Nominees

The AMS Office is pleased to announce the nominees for the Ethics Committee election. Balloting will open to current AMS members on Wednesday, 8 September 2021 and will remain open through 11:59PM ET on Friday, 8 October 2021. Members may vote for up to five (5) candidates.

Per the AMS By-Laws, Article VII.B.4: The Ethics Committee shall be charged with advising the President, the Executive Director, the Board, and the Council on matters pertaining to ethical conduct within the spaces, events, and publications of the AMS.

Biographical information for Ethics Committee nominees appears below.

Ethics Committee Candidates

William Cheng, Dartmouth, Ph.D. Harvard, 2013. Loving Music Till It Hurts (Oxford, 2019), Just Vibrations: The purpose of Sounding Good (Michigan, 2016). Former member of the Council, Council Nomination Com., Publications Com., and HMB Fellowship Com.

Andrew Dell’Antonio, UT Austin, Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1991. Co-Editor, Music and Social Justice series (Michigan); Author/Editor, The Avid Listener; recent focus on Universal Design for Learning, Disability Studies; Former co-chair of the ad hoc Ethics Planning Committee, former member of the Board, Council, AMS Com. on Women & Gender, Annual Program Com., MPD Com., Communications Com. https://adellantonio.com.

Cesar Favila, UCLA, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2016. Articles in JSAM, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and Women & Music. Specializes in music of colonial Mexico. Served on unlawful harassment panel and provided conflict resolution as ombudsperson at the University of Chicago. Examined complaints of racial profiling, dereliction of duty, and use of excessive force within the Independent Review Committee for the University of Chicago Police. Member of the AMS Council, Com. on Cultural Diversity, and task force on sustainable mentorship.

Luis-Manuel Garcia, U. of Birmingham, Ph.D. U. of Chicago, 2011. Together Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke, in press). Articles in Ethnomusicology Forum, Sound Studies, Annals of Leisure Research, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Dancecult. Former member of the SEM Council, SEM Program Committee, IASPM-US board (student member), IASPM-US Program Committee. President of the Popular Music Section of SEM. Founding member of The Scare Quotes, a coalition of BIPOC and queer ethnomusicologists (https://thescarequotes.carrd.co/). Organized #SEMchillout (https://semchillout.carrd.co/) for BIPOC+ attendees of SEM 2020.

Bonnie Gordon, University of Virginia, Ph.D. UPenn. Monteverdi’s Unruly Women (Cambridge, 2004), co-editor of The Courtesans Arts (Oxford, 2006). Former member of the Board, Council, Com. on Women & Gender, MPD Com., Com. on Race and Ethnicity, and Pisk Award Com. Founding faculty member UVa equity center.

Lauron Kehrer, Western Michigan U, Ph.D. Eastman, 2017. Articles in American Music, JSAM, and Popular Music and Society. Research on the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in American popular music. Co-Chair of Com. on Cultural Diversity. Former member of the ad hoc Ethics Planning Com.

Tamara Levitz, UCLA, Ph.D. Eastman, 1993. Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone (Oxford, 2012), editor of Stravinsky and His World (Princeton, 2013). Former member of the Council, Com. on the History of the Society, Grad Education Steering Com. and Program Com.

Imani Mosley, U of Florida, Ph.D., Duke, 2019. “Say Her Name: Invocation, Remembrance, and Gendered Trauma in Black Lives Matter” in Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma (Michigan, 2020). Former member of ad hoc Com. on Ethics Planning Committee and MPD Com.

M. Leslie Santana, UCSD, Ph.D. Harvard, 2019. Articles in Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (Oxford, 2019), Queer Nightlife (Michigan, 2021). Ethnography of gender performance in Cuba. Former member of the ad hoc Ethics Planning Com., and Com. on Race and Ethnicity.

Anicia Timberlake, Peabody, Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2015. Articles in Music & Politics and Representations, co-editor of Walking Freely on Firm Ground: Letters to Mary Virginia Foreman, 1935–1951 (Hofheim, 2014). Reviews Editor of Eighteenth-Century Music. Member of the AMS Council.