Current Member
Ellie M. Hisama
Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Twentieth-Century U.S. Music History
Home Institution
University of Toronto
Website
Ellie M. Hisama is a social historian and music theorist. At IAS, she will work on a book on composer and musician Julius Eastman. Titled “The Fragment and the Long Song of Julius Eastman,” her project addresses his fractured archive and language of ecstatic minimalism. It offers pathways of listening to his uncompromising musical engagements.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
–
Fall
Degrees
City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center
Ph.D.
1996
Queens College, City University of New York
M.A.
1992
Queens College, City University of New York
B.M.
1989
University of Chicago
A.B.
1987
Honors
2024
Leonard J. Reade Distinguished Lecture on Music & Racial Justice, Dartmouth College
2022
Women and Gender Endowed Lecture, American Musicological Society
2021
Distinguished Lecturer in Music Theory, Michigan State University
2020
Inaugural Provost’s Faculty Mentoring Award, Columbia University
2019
Kenneth H. Peacock Lecture, University of Toronto
2017
Robert Samels Visiting Scholar, Indiana University
2016
Scholar in Residence, Judy Tsou ‘75 Music Scholars Series, Skidmore College
2015
Annual Distinguished Lecturer, Hartt Music Theory Forum, Hartt School of Music
2010
Tsunoda Ryusaku Senior Fellowship, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo
2002-03
Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Appointments
University of Toronto
2021
Dean and Professor of Music
Columbia University
2021
Professor Emerita of Music
Columbia University
2006–2021
Professor of Music
Harvard University
2008–2009
Visiting Professor of Music
Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Institute for Studies in American Music
1999–2006
Director and Associate Professor of Music