This installment of the THEME Lecture Series features guest speaker Jessica Bissett Perea, associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington and adjunct associate professor of Music History.
Series Background
THEME, an annual colloquium of UW faculty and students of Theory, History, Ethnomusicology, and Music Education, is held on select Friday afternoons throughout the academic year. Talks are at 4 p.m in the School of Music Fishbowl unless otherwise noted. Admission is free.
Biography
Jessica Bissett Perea is a Dena’ina [Alaska Native] musicologist and associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. Her research centers critical Native American and Indigenous studies approaches to music, sound, and performance studies; Critical race, Indigeneity, gender, and feminist studies; Arts and activism in North Pacific and Circumpolar Arctic communities; and Relational studies of Indigenous and Black experiences in the Americas. Her first monograph Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska (forthcoming 2021) will appear in the “American Musicspheres” series published by Oxford University Press. In fall 2021 she will co-teach “Radical Storywork: Performing Food Sovereignty through Inuit Fermentation Culture” with Professor Maria Marco, which advances Inuit knowledges and performing arts processes as a means to unsettle and expand dominant modes of knowledge production in food science research.