Shana L. Redmond

Macalester College (BA)
Yale University (PhD)

Academic workDisciplineComparative Literature
MusicologyInstitutions

University of California, Los Angeles
Columbia University

Shana L. Redmond is an English and Comparative Literature professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race at Columbia University. She is currently president of the American Studies Association and a recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Redmond received her B.A. from Macalester College, where she trained as a vocalist, and her Ph.D. from Yale University.^[3] She is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, culture, and power with a specialization in the intersection of music and the black radical tradition.^[4] She also taught musicology and jazz studies at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.^[5]

Redmond is the author of Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (2020), which received multiple book awards, including a 2021 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.^[6]

References

^ "Three Columbians Win Guggenheim Fellowships". Columbia News. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
^ "2022-23 President Shana L. Redmond". American Studies Association. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
^ "Shana Redmond". Department of African American Studies. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
^ "Shana Redmond". The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
^ "Musicologist Shana Redmond contributes to award-nominated documentary about Harlem and music". UCLA. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
^ "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-Second Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS". John Giorno Foundation. August 23, 2021. Retrieved April 21, 2023.