March 6, 2023
Dr. Eileen M. Hayes retires as Dean, College of Arts and Communication, UW-Whitewater in March 2023. She was appointed in 2017. Dr. Hayes received the Bachelor of Music from Temple University, the Master of Arts in Folklore from Indiana University, and the Ph.D. in Music (ethnomusicology) from the University of Washington. Her research interests include African American music, feminist theories, queer studies in music and the social sciences, race in American popular culture, and music school redesign.
She is the author of Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music, a study that tracks the emergence of black feminist consciousness in a network that emerged from a subculture of lesbian feminism in the early 1970s. She is the co-editor, with Linda Williams, of Black Women and Music: More than the Blues (University of Illinois Press 2007). Her writings appear in Ethnomusicology, Women and Music: The Journal of Gender and Culture, Theory and Practice, the Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education and in a special issue of the Journal of the Society for American Music, forthcoming March 2023. She is a past Book Review Editor, Women and Music. She has presented papers at numerous conferences including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the College Music Society, Feminist Theory and Music, Society for American Music, the German Musicological Society, Center for Black Music Research, Desert Skies, and NASM. From 2012-17, she served as professor and chair of the Department of Music at Towson University. Prior to that, she served as chair of the division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology at the University of North Texas.
Dr. Hayes is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship; Danforth Compton; and the DAAD, where she was based at the University at Göttingen). Her past honors include an appointment by the Librarian of Congress to the National Recording Preservation Board, 2016-21, as Member-at-Large. Past editorial advisory board memberships include the Journal of the Society for American Music, the CMS Cultural Expressions in Music series; the Eastman Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology, and College Music Symposium.
Currently, she serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Performing Arts in Higher Education. She is the co-editor, with Portia K. Maultsby, of the African American Music in Global Perspectives book series, published by the University of Illinois Press. She serves as President of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honors society. She is the Immediate Past-President of the College Music Society.
Professor Hayes has held elected and presidential appointments in the Society for Ethnomusicology and College Music Society; she has held a presidential appointment in the Society for Music Theory. A digest of her record of service to the societies is as follows:
College Music Society: Past-President appointed by the CMS Board, 2022 (5 months); Past-President, 2021 during the administration of Mark Rabideau; President, 2019/2020; President-Elect 2018 during the Ward years; Member, Search Committee to identify the new Executive Director (2015-16) – Taggert administration; Program Committee, 2005-2008; Program Committee for the International Conference held in Madrid, 2005; Board representative for Ethnomusicology, 2004-07 during the Harding administration; Local Arrangements Committee Co-chair, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, 2016; Chair, Nominations Committee, 2009; Member, Gender and Music Study Group, 1996.
Society for Ethnomusicology: Presidential appointment to the committee to address the SEM Constitution and Bylaws during the Hahn administration (2020); An appointment by President Cooley to the committee to address the disposition of the SEM president (2020); Co-Facilitator, with Stephanie Shonekan, of the effort to establish the Portia K. Maultsby Equity and Inclusion Fund, generously funded by Dr. Gage Averill. The effort included establishing the guidelines for the Portia K. Maultsby Book Prize; Co-Chair, with Portia K. Maultsby, of the Gertrude Robinson Memorial Network and Travel Fund, 2017-19.
Board Member at Large during the Berger years (2011-13); Second VP during the Averill administration, 2009-11; Co-Chair, with Amy Corin - Section on the Status of Women (2007-10), co-founder, in 2008, with Robin Moore, of the Southern Plains Chapter; Co-Chair, with Amy Corin - Gender and Sexualities Taskforce under the Wong administration (2003-05); member, SEM Council, 2005-08; presidential appointments during Bohlman and Rice administrations - SEM Nominating Committee, and the Crossroads Committee. In 1996, five women met in a clump at SEM. They became the Founding Steering Committee of what would eventually become the gender and sexualities special interest group. Members: Zoe Sherinian, Ingrid Monson, Gillian Rodger, Maria Johnson, Eileen Hayes (1996).
Feminist Theory and Music: FTM/IAWM: Member, Presidential plenary comprised of the presidents of AMS (Suzanne Cusick), SAM (Tammy L. Kernodle), and CMS (Eileen M. Hayes); Judy Tsou, Moderator, joint conference, FTM and the International Association for Women in Music, 2019.
NASM: Member, Nominating Committee, 2014, appointed by Executive Director, Sam Hope. Secretary, Region 6, 2014-15; Vice-Chair, 2015-2016, and Chair, Region 6, 2016-17.
International Council for Traditional Music: Member, Music and Gender study group; Barbara Hampton, chair; 2015
Society for Music Theory: Appointed by President Harold Krebs to serve as Liaison between SMT’s Diversity Committee and The Committee on the Status of Women (2012)
Faculty Mentor across the disciplines: BIPOC Faculty Mentor program sponsored by the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (2022) as well as a Faculty Mentor for the Future Music Faculty program sponsored by the Cleveland Institute of Music and Sphinx Organization (2021).
The Five Presidents’ Group: Building on the brainchild of Suzanne Cusick, Eileen organized the first class of presidents of the five societies. The cohort was comprised of Suzanne Cusick (AMS), Patricia Hall (SMT), Tammy L. Kernodle (SAM), Timothy Cooley (SEM), and Eileen M. Hayes (CMS) – 2020.
EILEEN M. HAYES
Current Dean, College of Arts and Communication
Position University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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Education Ph.D., (1999) University of Washington, Seattle.
Ethnomusicology
M.A. (1987) Indiana University.
Folkore/Ethnomusicology
B.M. (1982) Temple University.
Piano/ Music History
Professional Becoming a Provost Academy (2020-21), American Association
Development of State Colleges & Universities.
Faculty Status Assistant Professor – University of North Texas (2002-2007)
And Rank Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Riverside (2004-05)
Associate Professor – University of North Texas (2008-2012)
Professor – Towson University (2012-2017)
Professor – University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (2017 – present)
Administrative UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER
Experience Founded in 1868, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is one of eleven comprehensive universities within the UW System. A master’s level university, UW-W is focused on student success, with an enrollment of 11,000 including the branch campus in Rock County.
Dean, College of Arts and Communication; University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
8/2017- present. Designated academic and administrative officer responsible for the effective and efficient operation of the College within the policies, directives, and mission of the University. In addition to its academic programs, the College houses the Crossman Art Gallery, an Art Gallery located in the Community Engagement Center, campus media including 91.7 FM, The Royal Purple, UWW-TV, and the Young Auditorium (1300 seats).
Professional Society Leadership
President, Pi Kappa Lambda, 2023
Pi Kappa Lambda is the national music honor society. The Society is dedicated to the furtherance of music in education and education in music in colleges, universities, conservatories, and other institutions of higher learning.
President, College Music Society, 2019 and 2020
The College Music Society is a 5,500 membership organization for all disciplines represented by the music professoriate. The national office is served by an Executive Director and a staff of seven. The President chairs the Board of Directors and is a member of the Executive Committee. The president is responsible for carrying out the mission of the Society, including programming and services for its members. The role carries no fiduciary responsibility. Each president promotes a theme; I chose “Equity and Opportunity in Music in Higher Education.” A complete list of my writings, as President, can be accessed here.
Time's Up: Equity and Opportunity in Music - February 2019
Climate Change Activism – October 2019
Toward an Anti-Racist CMS - July 2020
Silent No More: Anti-Asian Racism in Music – August 2020*
Bearing Witness – September 2020
Adjusting Our Sails: Pursuing Opportunity for Latinx Futures in Music – Oct. 2020*
Gratitude, Acknowledgement of Indigenous Lands, and the Elections – November 2020
What Music Owes George Floyd – December 2020
*Journal publication.
Chair and Professor, Department of Music, Towson University, Towson, Maryland.
The Department of Music enrolled approximately 250 students and is served by 30 full-time and 50 part-time faculty. The Department offered the BM in Performance and Composition, the BS in Music, the BS in Music Education, the MM in Performance and the MS in Music Education.
Chair, University of North Texas College of Music, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology.
(2007-2012)
The division of MHTE offered the bachelor’s and master’s in all three disciplines; the doctorate was offered in musicology and music theory. The division served undergraduate music majors and musicology and music theory graduate students primarily; service courses were designed to appeal to the non-music major; 22 tenure-track faculty and several lecturers. Division chairs reported to the Dean.
Publications
Books
2010 Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women’s Music, University of Illinois Press, 236 pages. Reviews: Nominated for the following awards in 2010: Ruth Benedict Prize, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association; Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians; Philip Brett Award, American Musicological Society. In 2011: Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association; Alan Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology; Pauline Alderman Award, International Alliance for Women in Music; Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association. Reviews have appeared in IAWM, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, and Journal of the Society for American Music.
2007 Black Women and Music: More than the Blues. Eileen M. Hayes and Linda F. Williams, co-editors, University of Illinois Press, 232 pages. Nominated for the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award by the Association of Black Women Historians, 2008. Reviews: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 43(4), 2008; Journal of African American History, Volume 93, No. 3; Journal of Popular Music Studies, September 2008; Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, 2008; NWSA Journal, Fall 2008; International Alliance for Women in Music, 2008.
Chapters
2022 Reprint of “After the Golden Age: Negotiating Perspective,” a chapter from Songs in Black and Lavender for inclusion in Music in American Life, 1945-2020, a University of Illinois Press Anthology; edited by Tammy L. Kernoldle, compiled by Laurie Matheson.
2016 “The Reception of Blackness in Women’s Music” in Issues in African American Music, Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee Burnim, co-editors, Routledge.
2007 “New Perspectives in Black Women and Music,” in Black Women and Music: More than the Blues, Eileen M. Hayes and Linda F. Williams, co-editors, University of Illinois Press, pages 1-22.
2007 “Black Women and Women’s Music,” in Black Women and Music: More than the Blues, Eileen M. Hayes and Linda F. Williams, co-editors, University of Illinois Press, pages 153-178.
2006 “Women-identified Music,” in African American Music: An Introduction, Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim, co-editors, Routledge, pages 541-558.
2005 “Separation or integration: Early black nationalism and the education critique.” Kharem, H. & Hayes, Eileen M., in Watkins, W.H. editor, Black Protest Thought and Education. New York: Peter Lang, pages 67-88.
Refereed Essays
2022 “Silent No more: Anti-Asian Racism in Music,” Special Edition: Marking Forty Years of American Music, Journal of the Society for American Music, Volume 40.4. (Forthcoming March 2023).
2021 “Where There is Institutional Will, there is a Way: Diversity and Faculty of Color in Music,” Theory and Practice: The Journal of the Music Theory Society of New York state. Volume 46.
2020 “Equity for Latinx Students and Faculty in Music in Higher Education,” in Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education, Volume XI, Fall.
2020 “Interview with Eileen M. Hayes” Journal of the IAWM (International Alliance for Women in Music, Volume 25, No. 2. (Transcription of Remarks delivered at IAWM/FT&M Conference, Boston, Summer.)
2019 “Interview with Eileen M. Hayes” Journal of the IAWM (International Alliance for Women in Music, Volume 25, No. 2. (Transcription of Remarks delivered at IAWM/FT&M Conference, Boston, Summer.)
2013 “Women’s Music,” Grove Dictionary of American Music-Oxford Music Online, second edition; Charles Hiroshi Garrett, editor.
2007 “Not Your Mother’s Uplift:” Sweet Honey in the Rock, Journey, and Representation, an essay that appears in Women and Music: the Journal of Gender and Culture, University of Nebraska Press, pages 71-79.
2004 “Radical Harmonies,” a film review for the Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Spring/Summer, pages 312-314.
Grants and Awards
2011 Fulbright German Studies Program Fellowship. Finalist in the 2010-11 competition Proposed Project: The Reception of Blackness at the African (Music) Festival, Würzburg, Germany.
2010 Visiting Professorship Fellowship, Deutsche Austache Aufgabe Dienst (DAAD). Award sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service, Summer Term (April – July ). Residency at the Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany.
2009 Hispanic and Global Initiatives Fund Award, University of North Texas Office of International Programs. $3,000 for research toward curriculum development in ethnomusicology; Archives of Traditional Music, University of Limerick, Ireland,
2006 Small Grant Award, University of North Texas Office of Research and Technology Research assistant funding for the transcribing of tapes pertaining to my monograph, Songs in Black and Lavender.
2005 Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of North Texas, for completion of the manuscript, Black Women and Music: More than the Blues.
2004 Faculty Research Grant, University of North Texas, for funding to conduct research on the all-inmate broadcasts of the Texas state prison system, 1938-44.
2004 Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship for Minorities; Faculty Mentor: Professor Deborah Wong, Music Department, University of California, Riverside.
2004 Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of North Texas, for funding to expand and revise my dissertation for publication by the University of Illinois Press; awarded Summer 2004.
2003 Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of North Texas, for funding to conduct additional research for my full-length manuscript on “women’s music.”
2003 Faculty Research Grant, University of North Texas, for funding to conduct critical participation observation fieldwork at women-identified music festivals with the goal of publishing a full-length manuscript on the same.
Papers Presented
2018 National Association of Schools of Music, Region 4, panel presentation: “Leveling the Playing Field of Opportunity in Music in Higher Education.”
2016 Roundtable presentation, “Invisible Fencing and the Social Justice Crisis in Music in Higher Education,” I, December 2015; Austin, Texas.
2012 Florida State University, Department of Musicology, (invited lecture) “Hauntings of Abraham Lincoln: Music and the Protracted Struggle for Social Justice.”
2011 UNC Greensboro, School of Music Theatre and Dance, The Art of Public Memory (invited keynote) “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight: Music and the Long Path to Equality.”
2009 The 51st Meeting of the College Music Society, Portland, Oregon: Panel Respondent: “After the Hype: Interdisciplinarity in Music Research.”
2009 SEM’s Crossroads Committee on Diversity; Roundtable Presentation at committee conference held at UCLA.
2008 CDIME-NINE, the ninth international conference on Cultural Diversity in Music Education, Invited panel with Ted Solis, Sean Williams, David Harnish; Ricardo Trimillos, respondent. Paper title: “What Was Cultural Diversity?:” Meaning and Ambivalence in a Post-Kum Ba Yah Age.
2006 Joint Session, The Center for the Study of Black Music Research/Society for American Music, “As Large As She Can Make It” Remix: Black Women’s Activism through Music. Paper: “’Out and About: Soundings of the next generation of black lesbian musicians.”
2005 The 50th Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Session: What’s in a name?: African American Music and the Politics of Naming. Paper title: “Coming into Voice: Black women and the politics of naming in women-identified music.”
2005 Colloquium co-sponsored by the departments of Dance and Music at the University of California, Riverside; Paper Title: “’The sound of black in the rainbow flag’: Black women negotiate race, gender, and sexuality in women-identified music.”
2005 Over the Waves: Music in/and Broadcasting, hosted by McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Paper title: “Melody, Goodwill, and Cheer: The All-Inmate Variety Shows of the Texas Penitentiary System, 1938-1944.” (Invitation)
2005 The 31st Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, Eugene, Oregon, Session: Representing Blackness in the Music Industry: Defining Race, Religion, and Gender. Paper title: “The specificity of the feminine: Black women and women-identified music.”
2004 The 49th Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Session: Music and Dance in the American Southwest. Title: “Thirty Minutes Behind the Walls: All Inmate Variety Shows of the Texas Penitentiary System, 1938-1944.”
2004 International Kongress der Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung, Weimar, Germany. Session: Music, race, and culture: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Paper title: Music, Race, and Reformation. Paper title: “the all-inmate airshows on the air-lanes of America.”
2004 College Music Society South Central Chapter Conference, “Waiting for six o’clock: the quiet performativity of execution vigils in the State of Texas.”
1999 Feminist Theory and Music 5, London, England. Title: “Blackness and representations of Feminism in Women-identified Music.”
Service to Professional Societies
2022 Past-President, College Music Society (Appointed by the CMS Board, August 2022- Dec. 2022)
2021 Past-President, College Music Society
2020 Member, Committee to Review the Bylaws and constitution of the Society of Ethnomusicology, appointed by SEM Interim President, Tomie Hahn.
2020 Member, Committee to Recommend the Disposition of the SEM President; appointed by Timothy Cooley, President,SEM.
2019 Member, Keynote Plenary, Feminist Theory and Music /IAWM Conference, Boston.
For this presidential plenary, the presidents of CMS, SAM, and AMS spoke about the challenges and opportunities of professional music society leadership.
2019 Keynote. Desert Skies Music Education Research Symposium. “This is Our Complaint: the Protracted Struggle for Equity and Opportunity in Music.”
2018 Invited Presenter, “Equity and Opportunity in Music,” Project Spectrum Conference (sponsored by AMS/SMT), November.
2018 Guest Lecture, “Diversity in Music in Higher Education,” University of Ilinois, Champaign-Urbana.
2018 Keynote. “Opening the Doors: Diversity and Inclusion, Equity and Opportunity in Music,” New York Association of College Music Programs, Ithaca, New York.
2016 Member, Search Committee to select the next Executive Director of the College Music Society; Cynthia Taggert, chair. Presidential appointment.
2016 Member, National Recording Preservation Board; appointment by Librarian of Congress, Dr Carla Haydn. The NRPG selects sounds for preservation in the Library of Congress National Record Registry. Term ended: 2021.
2015 Elected Vice-Chair, Region 6, NASM.
2015 Invited Presenter, Annual Conference of the American Musicological Society, November 2015: “Tales from the Front: A Department of Music Chair Reflects on Equity and Adjunct Faculty Employment in the Musicologies,” Louisville, Kentucky.
2015 Session Chair, “An Examination of Narratives of Invisibility in American Music,” Feminist Theory and Music 13, Madison, Wisconsin; August 5-9.
2015-16 Member, Local Arrangements Committee, SEM’s 2016 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. (appointed by President Beverly Diamond in 2014).
2015 Member, Music and Gender Study Group, International Council of Traditional Music. Barbara Hampton, Chair.
2014 Invited Presenter, Roundtable on Salary Negotiation for Women in Academia, Society for Music Theory’s Committee on the Status of Women. Title: “Don’t Tweet it Yet: Negotiating one’s entry to a full-time position.” Laurel Parsons, Chair; Milwaukee.
2014 Invited Presenter, Roundtable on Gender and Power Relations in Mentor-Mentee Relationships, Society for Ethnomusicology’s session co-sponsored by the Gender and Sexualities Taskforce, the Student Union, and the Committee on the Status of Women. David Kaminsky, chair; Pittsburgh.
2014 Presenter, Encomium in honor of Portia K. Maultsby, delivered at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology; Beverly Diamond, President, SEM; Pittsburgh.
2014 Elected Secretary, Region 6, NASM mtg. in Scotsdale.
2014 Representative to Maryland Area College Music Association (MACMA).
2014 NASM: Nominating Committee; appointed by Sam Hope, Executive Director.
2012 Member, Diversity Committee, Society for Music Theory; Presidential Appointment, SMT Liaison between Diversity Committee and Committee on the Status of Women.
Board Membership
2023 President, Pi Kappa Lambda
2022 Past-President, College Music Society (5 months)
2019 President, College Music Society (until January 2021)
2017 Elected President-Elect, College Music Society until January 2019.
2010-2012 2nd Vice President, Society for Ethnomusicology Board of Directors.
- Member, Ad-hoc committee to re-evaluate the SEM logo and icon
- Member, Seeger Prize Committee (awarding the best student paper delivered at the annual conference)
2005-08 Member, Society for Ethnomusicology Council.
2004-07 Board Representative for Ethnomusicology, College Music Society.
Committee Leadership
2017- 2019 Co-Chair, Gertrude Robinson Network Travel Fund, Society for Ethnomusicology
2009 Chair, Board Nominations Committee, College Music Society. Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, annual meeting, Southern Plains Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Co-Chair, bi-annual meeting of the Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, hosted at UNT.
2008 Co-Founder with Robin Moore, Southern Plains Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Co-Chair, FEM@21: Gender Studies in Ethnomusicology Come of Age, a Roundtable co-sponsored by the Section on the Status of Women and the Gender and Sexualities Taskforce. SEM, October.
2007-10 Co-Chair, SEM’s Section on the Status of Women.
2005-06 Chair, Marcia Herndon Award, Gender and Sexualities Taskforce, SEM.Chair, Wong-Tolbert Student Prize Committee, Section on the Status of Women, SEM.
Program Committees
2012 Member, Program Committee, Joint committee of AMS/SEM/SMT, for the annual meeting to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 Member, Program Committee, College Music Society, for the annual meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia.
2007 Member, Program Committee, Feminist Theory and Music 9 Conference, Montreal, Canada.
2005 Program Committee Member, 2005 Conference of CMS held in Quebec City, Quebec.
2005 Program Committee member, 2005 International Conference of CMS held in Madrid.
2003 Program committee member, Feminist Theory and Music 7, Bowling Green State University (local host), Bowling Green, Ohio; Theme: Crossing Boundaries/Crossing Disciplines.
Panel Moderator
2012 Chair and Organizer, “What was the Core?”: The Role of Ethnomusicology in the Undergraduate Curriculum, College Music Society, San Diego, California.
2009 Chair, Workshop: Juba ‘dis and Juba ‘dat: Exploring Connections in Music of the African Diaspora, Meeting of the College Music Society, Portland.
2007 Moderator, Closing Plenary: “Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives,” Feminist Theory & Music 9, Montreal, Quebec.
2006 Panel Chair and Co-Organizer, Bridging the Discipline: Integrating World Musics/Ethnomusicology into College Music Curricula, CMS National Conference, San Antonio.
2005 Chair, Open Forum for Ethnomusicology/World Music, CMS national meeting, Panel
2003 Chair: Music and Politics, CMS, Quebec City, Quebec. Chair, Representation of Blackness: From Mahalia to Motown; Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Miami, Florida. Chair: African American music, feminisms, and religion. Feminist Theory and Music 7, Bowling Green State University.
2003-05 Co-Chair, Gender and Sexualities Taskforce of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
External Evaluation and Editorial Experience
2022 Faculty Mentor, BIPOC Fellows program sponsored by AICAD.
2022 External Program Reviewer, UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.
2021 Faculty Mentor, Future Faculty of Color program, sponsored by the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Sphinx Organization.
2020 Appointed co-editor, African American Music in Global Perspective series, University of Illinois Press.
2020 External reviewer, promotion to Professor, Bard College.
2019 External reviewer, tenure and promotion candidate in department of performance studies, Texas A&M.
2016 Peer reviewer, essay on narrative authority and the history of rhythm and blues; African American Music: An Introduction, Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee Burnim, editors, Routledge.
2016 External evaluator, article on the Women Sing the Blues digital archive project; Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Judy Tzu-Chun, editor.
2015 External evaluation, book proposal on the undergraduate music curriculum, Routledge; Constance Ditzel, editor.
2015 External evaluation, article on Mindfulness and Music Education, College Music Symposium; Victor Fung, editor.
2014 External evaluator, article on African American Women’s Work and Play Songs; Feminist Studies, Jennifer Nash, editor.
2014 External Reviewer, book manuscript on gospel music, University of Arkansas Press; David Cunningham, editor.
2014 External Reviewer, book proposal on Billie Holiday; University of Missouri Research Board.
2010 College Music Society Symposium, Victor Fung, editor; appointment to May 2015.
2013 Manuscript Reviewer, Black Music Research Journal, Spring 2013; Horace Maxile, editor.
2012 Evaluator, NRC/Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral, Dissertation, and Post-doctoral Fellowships.
2012 External evaluator, Social Science Research Council of Canada, Proposal.
2011 External evaluator, manuscript sent by the University of Illinois Press; topic: feminist ethnomusicology.
2011 ACLS, Evaluator of Dissertation Fellowship Award Competition.
2010 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, the Cultural Expressions Monograph Series of the College Music Society; Sang-Hie Lee, series editor. Appointment to December 2016.
2008 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, the Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology; appointed June 2008; Ellen Koskoff, series editor.
2008 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Society for American Music.
2008-10 Book Review Editor, Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture; Suzanne Cusick, Editor in Chief.
2009 Nominator, MacArthur Fellows Program.
2007 Evaluator, UNT Faculty Research Grants for two faculty in the Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology.
2006 Chair & Abstracts Evaluator, Ethnomusicology, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts Panel; Ford Fellow Conference, Washington, D.C.
2004 Pre-concert lecture, Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s African American Festival. Repertoire: Hailstork, Proto, and Still.
1996-97 Member, Founding Steering Committee, Gender and Sexualities Concerns Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology.
1996-97 Member, Gender Studies Committee, College Music Society.
