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Earlier this year, SMR member Lena Leson received a Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship to conduct research in the special collections of the University of Chicago. (For the University of Chicago's announcement, see here.) Congratulations, Lena!

Alyssa Wells, a fifth-year PhD candidate in Historical Musicology, has spent the Summer of 2019 doing archival research in Chicago. Funded by a new summer research grant from the U of M Musicology department, she visited the University of Chicago,...

Recently Elizabeth McLain participated on a panel hosted by Disability Culture at the University of Michigan on the topic of Disability Inclusion. The event was met with great interest, with more than 450 taking part either in person or by...

Recently, Elizabeth McLain was offered a position as Instructor of Musicology at Virginia Tech, where she herself completed her undergraduate training (you can read her new bio here). Congratulations, Elizabeth! Virginia is lucky to have you (back!).

Earlier this week, SMR members met to discuss the book A Third University is Possible. The book, published in 2017, develops a framework by drawing on Third Cinema and Black filmmaking for decolonizing the academy—another challenging and pressing topic.