Lauren Elizabeth Eldridge [email protected] | 708-207-8687
Education Ph.D. University of Chicago: Department of Music 2016 Dissertation: Playing Haitian – Musical Negotiations of Nation, Genre, and Self Advisors: Melvin Butler (Chair), Philip Bohlman, Travis Jackson, Kaley Mason A.M. University of Chicago: Department of Music 2014 B.A. Spelman College (Atlanta, GA): International Studies and Music 2010 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Publications "A Charge to Keep: Gendered Mission and Vocation in Haitian Classical Music" in Revise to resubmit Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture
"Respectable Sound: Music Education as Social Movement" in Music and Politics 12:2 2018
"'Will We Remember the Way We Were?' The Past and Future Tenses of Lauryn Hill's 'Ex-Factor'" on Musicology Now, a blog sponsored by the American Musicological Society 2018
Recording review, "Lakou Mizik: Wa Di Yo" in the world of music (new series) 2018
Book review, Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans 1881-1940 by Kodi 2017 A. Roberts in Folklore 128:3
Book review, Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago by Kymberly N. 2017 Pinder in Journal of Folklore Research
Book review, Histoire du Style Musical d'Haïti by Claude Dauphin in The Journal of 2016 Haitian Studies 22:2
Entries on Occide Jeanty, Henri Salvador, and Farah Juste in the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography 2016
“(Re)Membering Haiti through Mizik Klasik” in The Journal of Haitian Studies 21.1 2015
"CBMR Presents Black Vocality II: Cultural Memory, Identities, and Practices of African-American Singing Styles" in CBMR Digest 27.2 2014
Book review, Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana by Geoffrey Baker in Callaloo 37.1 2014
Presentations Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration - Heritage University 2018 The Power of Sound: Embodied Approaches to Sonic Activism (Invited Keynote)
Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity - Georgia State University 2018 The Other Side of the Water: Haitian-Americans Compose Nation and the Self
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Presentations (cont.) Haitian Studies Association - New Orleans, Louisiana 2017 The Art of Citizenship: Kehinde Wiley's Vision of Port-au-Prince
Caribbean Studies Association - Nassau, Bahamas 2017 Negotiating Voluntourist Music Camps in Haiti
The Luise E. Peake Music and Culture Colloquium Series - Invited lectures at the University of South Carolina 2016 A Black Girl's World: Composing the Self in Haiti Racing Genre: Choral Performances of an Authentic Haiti
"Studying the Score: Race, class, and Privilege in Classical Music" - University of Chicago 2016 Panel Discussion Participant
American Anthropological Association - Denver, Colorado 2015 Working at Playing in Haiti's Summer Music Camps
Haitian Studies Association Conference - Université de Montréal 2015 A Home Away from Haiti
EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop, University of Chicago 2015 Racing Genre: Choral Performances of an Authentic Haiti
Society for Ethnomusicology 59th Annual Meeting – University of Pittsburgh 2014 (Re)membering Haiti Through Mizik Klasik
Haitian Studies Association Conference – University of Notre Dame 2014 (Re)membering Haiti Through Mizik Klasik
Garth Institute for Music Research and Performance Symposium at University of Michigan 2014 A Charge to Keep: Gendered Mission and Vocation in Haitian Classical Music
Haitian Culture and Language Roundtable, University of Chicago 2014 Gade Dèyè: an Overview of Haitian Musical Genres
Fourth Kenyetta Festival of Women in Jazz, Spelman College 2013 Silly Ladies: A Few Musings on Gender, Race, Memory, and Jazz
Second City Anthropology Conference 2013 A Walk Around Woodson: Black Sacred Space, Musical Meaning, and Social Movements
Chicago Ethnography Conference 2013 Haiti as a Model for the Community Music School
Race and Religion workshop, University of Chicago 2013 A Walk Around Woodson: Black Sacred Space, Musical Meaning, and Social Movements
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Haitian Studies Association Conference – City University of New York 2012 The Gift of Music: A Community Music School in a Culture of Aid
57th Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (Port of Spain, Trinidad) 2012 The Gift of Music: A Community Music School in a Culture of Aid
16th Annual Northwestern University Black Graduate Student Association Conference 2012 The Gift of Music: A Community Music School in a Culture of Aid
Stony Brook University Graduate Music Symposium 2012 The Gift of Music: A Community Music School in a Culture of Aid
Teaching Experience Instructor Introduction to World Music (Spelman College) 2018 Aesthetics of Activism (Spelman College) 2017-2018 Introduction to Black Music - online offering (Columbia College Chicago) 2015 Introduction to World Music (University of Chicago) 2014
Course Assistant Introduction to the Social and Cultural Study of Music (University of Chicago) Melvin Butler 2014 Sidra Lawrence 2013 Introduction to World Music (University of Chicago) Kaley Mason 2014 Travis Jackson 2013
Guest Lectures Winona Wynn - Your Place in Humanities Research (Heritage University) 2018 Melissa Hill - Sociological Imaginings (Heritage University) 2018 Ashante Reese - Race-ing Genre: Competitive Performances of an "Authentic" Haiti (Spelman College) 2017 Andrea Harris Jordan - Music and Forced Migration (University of Chicago) 2015 Sakinah Davis - Ethnographic Methods (Spelman College) 2015 Alisha Lola Jones - Music, Mobility, and the Global Marketplace (Indiana University) 2015
Fellowships and Awards Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Adjunct Faculty Fellowship 2018
Joint Dissertation Fellow, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (University of Chicago) 2015-16
Howard Mayer Brown Fellow, American Musicological Society 2015-16
Mellon-Mays Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Completion Grant 2015-16
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Fellowships and Awards (cont.) FLAS (Haitian Kreyòl) 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 Summers 2013 and 2011
Lowell C. Wadmond Grant (University of Chicago) 2014 and 2011
Social Science Research Council Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant 2013 and 2012
Center for Latin American Studies Field Research Grant 2012 and 2011
Graduate Aid Initiative, University of Chicago 2010-2016
UNCF Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship 2008-2010
Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops Organized UNCF/Mellon International Faculty Seminar, Portugal and Spain 2018
UNCF/Mellon Programs Conference, Atlanta, GA 2017
UNCF/Mellon Programs International Seminar Focus Group, Spelman College 2017
Co-coordinator of EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop, UChicago 2012-13
Bissa Na Bisso: A Discussion on Music and Collaborative Ethnography in Africa, UChicago 2013
Beyond the Headlines: Haiti in Music, UChicago 2012-13
Haiti Culturally, UChicago 2012
Performances The R. Nathaniel Dett Club of Music and Allied Arts (NANM) Saint Thomas Episcopal Church February 24, 2013
Recital and lecture, Fulton Hall, The University of Chicago May 24, 2013
Recital and program notes, Quisqueya Chapel, Port-au-Prince, Haiti December 5, 2013 Reviewed in Le Nouvelliste on December 12, 2013
(Re)Memory: A Recital Remembering the 2010 Haitian Earthquake (2014) University of Chicago – Fulton Hall Jan. 12 and Feb. 6 Bradley University – Dingeldine Music Center Jan. 13 Bethel Gospel Tabernacle – Queens, NY Jan. 19 Lawrence Conservatory – Harper Hall Jan. 23 Texas Woman’s University – Margo Jones Performance Center Jan. 30
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Performance and remarks, benefit concert for BLUME Haiti Nov. 9, 2014
Academic Service Faculty Chaperone, Bonner Office Alternative Spring Break to Washington, DC 2018
Faculty Coordinator, Mellon Cape Town Experience January Term 2018
Program Committee, Public Music Discourse: In Honor of the Bernstein Centenary, University of South Carolina, Columbia 2017
Consultant, UNCF/Mellon Programs Summer Institute, Emory University 2017 2018
Invited lecture to the student body of Kallgreen Learning Center (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) 2015
University of Chicago Dean of Humanities Student Advisory Board 2014 – 2016
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