Sherrie Tucker
{{short description|American musicologist and jazz scholar (born 1957)}}
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University of Kansas
| alma_mater = San Francisco State University (BA, MA, MA)
University of California, Santa Cruz (Ph.D.)
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Sherrie Jean Tucker (born March 18, 1957 in Modesto, California) is a musicologist, music historian, book author, professor, and journal editor.{{cite book|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195314281.001.0001/acref-9780195314281-e-8477?rskey=PWWC0k&result=8478|title=The Grove Dictionary of American Music|chapter=Tucker, Sherrie Jean |edition=2|editor=Garrett, Charles Hiroshi|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, UK|year=2013|isbn=978-0-19-531428-1 |oclc=774021205}} Tucker is co-editor-in-chief of American Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal.{{cite web|title=Editorial Team|url=https://journals.ku.edu/amerstud/about/editorialTeam|website=American Studies|publisher=University of Kansas|accessdate=February 21, 2018}}
Education
Tucker holds three degrees from San Francisco State University, including: a BA in Creative Writing, graduating summa cum laude in 1991, an MA in Creative Writing in 1992, and an MA in Women's Studies in 1994. Tucker earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in History of Consciousness in 1999.{{cite web|last1=Tucker|first1=Sherrie|title=Sherrie Tucker Bio – Education|url=http://people.ku.edu/~sjtucker/Education.html|publisher=University of Kansas|accessdate=February 20, 2018}}
Academic career
From 1999 to 2001, Tucker was assistant professor of women's studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. Since 2001, Tucker has been a member of the faculty associated with American studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. From 2001 to 2004, she was assistant professor; from 2004 to 2013 she was associate professor; and from 2013 to present she has been professor. From 2004 to 2005, Tucker was the Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University.{{cite web|last1=Tucker|first1=Sherrie|title=Sherrie Tucker Bio – Academic Positions|url=http://people.ku.edu/~sjtucker/Jobs.html|publisher=University of Kansas|accessdate=February 20, 2018}}
Selected works
Books
- {{cite book|author1=Tucker, Sherrie|author2=Nichole T. Rustin|title=Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham, NC|year=2008|oclc=209335152}}
- {{cite book|author1=Tucker, Sherrie|title=Swing Shift: 'All-Girl' Bands of the 1940s|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham, NC|year=2013|oclc=42397506}}
- {{cite book|author1=Tucker, Sherrie|title=Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham, NC|year=2014|oclc=870147133}}
Articles
- {{cite journal|author=Tucker, Sherrie|title=Nobody's Sweethearts: Gender, Race, Jazz, and the Darlings of Rhythm|journal=American Music|date=Autumn 1998|volume=16|issue=3|pages=255–288 |doi=10.2307/3052637|jstor=3052637}}
Research Collectives
References
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External links
- [http://people.ku.edu/~sjtucker/ Professor Tucker's official website at the University of Kansas]
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Category:American music historians
Category:American jazz educators
Category:American musicologists
Category:American women musicologists
Category:San Francisco State University alumni
Category:University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
Category:University of Kansas faculty
Category:American women music educators
Category:American women historians