Dr. Ruth Opara, a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Music at Columbia University, is excited to share that she has accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Arts and Music Histories at Syracuse University. Dr. Opara will join the Syracuse University community in the Fall of 2021, where she will be teaching Music of the people of African Descent both on the continent and in the diaspora. Dr. Opara is grateful for her time at Columbia University and appreciates the collegiality and support of her senior colleagues, colleagues, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students.