Dr. Mario Cancel-Bigay Defends Dissertation

The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Mario Cancel-Bigay, who on May 17, 2021 successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Ethnomusicology entitled "Sounds that Fall Through the Cracks, and Other Silences and Acts of Love: Decoloniality and Anticolonialism in Puerto Rican Nueva Canción and Chanson Québécoise." The dissertation was advised by Kevin Fellezs and the committee also included Chris Washburne, Ana Maria Ochoa, Licia Fiol-Matta, and Gérald Cote.

Congratulations Mario!