Shana L. Redmond
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| discipline = Comparative Literature
Musicology
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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2023)
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}}Shana L. Redmond(Born April 6,1980) is an English and Comparative Literature professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race at Columbia University. She is currently president of the American Studies Association and a recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.{{Cite web |title=Three Columbians Win Guggenheim Fellowships |url=https://news.columbia.edu/news/three-columbians-win-guggenheim-fellowships |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=Columbia News |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=2022-23 President Shana L. Redmond |url=https://www.theasa.net/about/governance/presidents/2022-23-president-shana-l-redmond |access-date=April 21, 2023 |website=American Studies Association}}
Biography
Redmond received her B.A. from Macalester College, where she trained as a vocalist, and her Ph.D. from Yale University.{{Cite web |title=Shana Redmond |url=https://afam.ucla.edu/2017/08/14/shana-redmond/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=Department of African American Studies |language=en-US}} She is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, culture, and power with a specialization in the intersection of music and the black radical tradition.{{Cite web |title=Shana Redmond |url=https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/shana-redmond/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music |language=en-US}} She also taught musicology and jazz studies at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.{{Cite web |title=Musicologist Shana Redmond contributes to award-nominated documentary about Harlem and music |url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-musicologist-shana-redmond-appears-in-naacp-image-award-nominated-documentary |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=UCLA |language=en-US}}
Redmond is the author of Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (2020), which received multiple book awards, including a 2021 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.{{Cite web |date=August 23, 2021 |title=The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-Second Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS |url=https://www.giornofoundation.org/attachment/en/5f77368713a837f1168b4567/News/61250deb5399a474f4467586 |access-date=April 21, 2023 |website=John Giorno Foundation}}
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Category:Macalester College alumni
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:Columbia University faculty
Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Category:American Book Award winners
Category:21st-century African-American academics