Hisama, Ellie M.

About Me
Position/Title:
Professor
Vice Chair
Theory Area Head

Ellie Hisama came to Columbia in 2006, having previously taught at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where she was Director of the Institute for Studies in American Music; she was also on the faculty of the Graduate Center, CUNY. Author of Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon and co-editor of Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music, she specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, post-tonal theory, American music, popular music, gender and feminist studies, critical studies of music and race, and the social and political roles of music. She has received major fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, and has served as an evaluator for the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Foundation, and the American Musicological Society. She has co-organized several major conferences, including Ruth Crawford Seeger: Modernity, Tradition, and the Making of American Music (2001), Local Music/Global Connections: New York City at the Millennium (2001), and Feminist Theory and Music 8 (2005). She is Founding Editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music published by Cambridge University Press, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=SAM, and serves as an Associate Editor of Perspectives of New Music. She is also on the editorial or advisory boards of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Echo: a music-centered journal.  She is Professor of Music and Vice Chair of the Department; she also serves as Theory Area Head and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.