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I-B-15 THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER APPOINTMENT OF V. KOFI AGAWU AS DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR WHEREAS, Professor V. Kofi Agawu is an internationally renowned scholar of music theory, musicology and enthnomusicology with expertise in the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler and African music; and WHEREAS, Professor Agawu has written five books, including, Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classical Music (1991), African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective (1995), Representing African Music: Post-Colonial Notes, Queries, Positions (2003), Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (2009) and The African Imagination in Music (2016); and WHEREAS, in addition, Professor Agawu has written more than 75 peer-reviewed journal articles and given over 100 keynote addresses and invited lectures; and WHEREAS, Professor Agawu has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, Princeton University’s most acclaimed humanities award and is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences; and WHEREAS, Dr. Agawu joined the Graduate Center in January 2019 as a Professor in the Music Ph.D. program. From 1998 to 2018, he was Professor of Music and then Hughes-Rodgers Professor of Music at Princeton University. Prior to that, he was Professor of Music at Yale University (1995 – 1998), Associate Professor and then Professor of Music at Cornell University (1989 – 1995) and Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Music at King’s College London (1986-1989), Duke University (1984-1986) and Haverford College (1982-1984). Dr. Agawu earned his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Stanford University, an M. Mus. in Musical Analysis and Theory from King’s College London, and a B.A. in Music from Reading University; now therefore be it RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York appoint V. Kofi Agawu as Distinguished Professor of Music at the Graduate Center effective July 1, 2019, with compensation of $28,594 per annum in addition to his regular academic salary, subject to financial ability. EXPLANATION: The Graduate Center and The City University of New York will be well-served by Professor Agawu’s appointment as Distinguished Professor. I-B-15 CURRICULUM VITAE V. Kofi Agawu CURRENT POSITIONS Hughes-Rogers Professor of Music, Princeton University, 2016- Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2016-19 Fellow, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000- Corresponding Fellow, The British Academy, 2010- Adjunct Professor, University of Ghana, Legon, 2007- PREVIOUS POSITIONS Professor of Music, Princeton University, 2007-16 Harvard University, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies, 2006-07 Princeton University, Professor of Music, 1998-2006 Yale University, Professor of Music, 1995-1998 University of Ghana, Legon, Visiting Scholar, 1997-2003 Cornell University, Professor of Music, 1993-1995 Cornell University, Associate Professor of Music, 1989-1993 King’s College London, Lecturer in Music, 1986-1989 Duke University, Assistant Professor of Music, 1984-1986 Haverford College, Assistant Professor of Music, 1982-1984 1 I-B-15 VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS Rayson Huang Visiting Lecturer in Music, University of Hong Kong, 1992 Visiting Professor of Music Theory, Indiana University, 1994 Williams College, Class of 1960 Distinguished Fellow, 1998 Harvard University, Visiting Professor, Spring Semester, 2000 Preceptor, African Humanities Institute (University of Ghana, Legon and Northwestern University), 2000 Wilma Smith Visitor in Music, University of Toronto, Distinguished Visitor Award, 2004 Visiting Professor, University of Pavia, Cremona, Italy, 2007 Music Theorist in Residence, Dutch-Flemish Music Theory Society, 2008-2009 (week-long residencies in Amsterdam and Ghent) Astor Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK, 2010 George Eastman Visiting Professor, Oxford University, 2012-13 Visiting Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, Spring 2015 Endowed Chair in Music Theory, University of Alabama, March 2016 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Historical Musicology, Stanford University, 1982 M. Mus. in Musical Analysis and Theory, King's College London, 1978 B.A. in Music, Reading University, 1977 A.R.C.M [Associate of the Royal College of Music] in Musicianship and Theory, 1976 L.R.A.M. [Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music] in the Teaching of Singing, 1975 HONORARY DEGREES Honorary M.A., Yale University, 1996 Honorary M.A., Harvard University, 2006 Master of Arts by Resolution, Oxford University, 2012 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) honoris causa, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2017 2 I-B-15 AWARDS AND PRIZES Cadbury Award, Achimota School, Ghana, 1973-74 Music Theory Prize, Reading University, 1975 Hilda Margaret Watts Prize, King's College London, 1978 Ingolf Dahl Memorial Award, American Musicological Society (Pacific Southwest and Northern California chapters), 1982 Dent Medal, Royal Musical Association, 1992 Young Scholar Award, Society for Music Theory, 1994 Frank Llewellyn Harrison Medal, Society for Musicology in Ireland, 2009 Eva Judd O’Meara Award, Music Library Association, 2011 Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, Princeton University, 2011 Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2016-19 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS The Center for Field Research/Earthwatch. Grant for ethnomusicological research, 1986 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Grant for fieldwork, 1989 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1990-91 Cornell University, Society for the Humanities, Faculty Fellowship, 1993-94 Old Dominion Faculty Fellow, Princeton University, 2008-09 Old Dominion Professor, Princeton University, 2010-11 SPECIAL LECTURES AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES Mary Kingsley Lecture, Royal African Society, London [inaugural lecture], 1989 W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Lecturer, City University of New York, Graduate Center, 1994 Keynote Address, Texas Society for Music Theory, Austin, 1996 Laura Boulton Lecture, Ohio State University, 1998 Second Ephraim Amu Memorial Lecture, The National Theatre, Accra, 2000 3 I-B-15 Keynote Address, Music Theory Midwest and Society for Ethnomusicology, Cincinnati, OH, 2001 Keynote Address, South African Musicological Society, Pretoria, 2002 Curry Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003 Donald Wort Lectures, Cambridge University, 2003-04 Keynote Address, Music Theory Southeast and South Central Society for Music Theory, Atlanta, 2004 Faculty, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, Rhythm Institute, 2005 Keynote Address, Musical Spaces: Ninth Annual CUNY Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Symposium, New York, 2006 Keynote Address, Fourteenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Manchester, 2006 Keynote Address, Performing Africa! Visualizing Africa!, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2007 Keynote Address, 18th Congress of the International Musicological Society, Zurich, 2007 Royal Musical Association Peter Le Huray Lecture, King’s College, London (inaugural lecture, delivered as part of the conference, Tonality in Perspective), 2008 Plenary Address, Joint Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and the Royal Musical Association [on the occasion of the award of the Harrison Medal], Dublin, 2009 Keynote Address, Michigan Interdisciplinary Music Society, Ann Arbor, 2010 Keynote Address, Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, Amherst, Mass., 2010 Keynote Address, Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, State College, Pa., 2010 Keynote Address, Conference on Music-Race-Empire, Madison, WI, 2011 Faculty, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, State of the Discipline Institute, 2011 Keynote Address, Boston University Music Society, Boston, 2011 Keynote Address Association of Nigerian Musicologists, Nssuka, Nigeria, 2012 Keynote Address, RMA Research Students Conference, Southampton, UK, 2013 George Eastman Lectures in Music, Oxford University, 2013 4 I-B-15 Lead Keynote Address, Abibirima! Fellow Africans Rise Up! A Festival and Symposium Celebrating the Music of Dr. Ephraim Amu, New England Conservatory, 2014 Keynote Address, Music Theory and Musicology Society, College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, 2014 Robert Stevenson Lecture, UCLA, 2014 Keynote Address, Balzan Workshop-Conference on ‘Topical Encounters and Rhetorics of Identity in Latin American Art Music,’ Oxford University, 2015 Keynote Address, ‘Rethinking Music Theory, With African Aid,’ Society for Music Theory, October 31st, 2015 Donald J. Grout Lecture, Cornell University, 2016 Keynote Address, ICTM Study Group on African Musics: African Music Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Directions, August, 2018 PUBLICATIONS Books: Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1991; paperback 2014). Reviews Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 May 1991, 965 [C. Ayrey] Music Analysis 10:3, 1991, 381-87 [W. Drabkin] Music and Letters 73:2, 1991, 315-17 [R. Monelle] Communication Research 18:6, 1991, 839-40 Music Theory Spectrum 14:2, 1992, 88-98 [R. Hatten] The Musical Quarterly 76:1, 1992, 114-21 [G. Edwards] The Semiotic Review of Books 3:2, May 1992, 10-11 [R. Hatten] Journal of the American Musicological Society 45:3, 1992, 526-35 [V. Micznik] Die Musikforschung 42:2, 1994, 215-18 [E. Ungeheuer] Review-articles William P. Dougherty, "The Quest for Interpretants: Toward a Peircean
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