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L E C T UR E/PR E S E N TA T I O NS <br /> Workshop Presenter, Massachusetts Music Educators Association Conference, Boston, MA, <br /> March 2011 <br /> Panelist, Music Ministry Leadership Forum, Black Church Music Ministry Project,Northeastern <br /> University, Boston, MA, September, 2009. <br /> Narrator, Good News: The Celebration of Black Sacred Music, Andover Newton Theological <br /> Seminary,Newton,MA, March, 2009. <br /> Panel Discussant, "Music in the Public Schools,"NASPAAM Conference,Jackson State <br /> University, Jackson, MS, March 2007 <br /> Narrator,SPIGOSPERA Performance at Roxbury Gospel Awards,New Fellowship Baptist <br /> Church,Dorchester,MA,October,2006. <br /> Keynote Speaker, "The Boston Urban Music Project(BUMP): The Push Toward Excellence." <br /> Annual Let's Talk R.A.C.E.:Racial Attitudes and Conversations in Education Conference-,2006 <br /> Theme: Music in the Schools, UNC-Chapel Hill,Teaching Fellows Program, February 2006. <br /> Session Chair, "Race in and as Performance"and OPUS Banquet Speaker,American <br /> Musicological Society-Seattle,November 2004. <br /> Lecture, "Digging `How I Got Over': Gospel Music and Everyday Resistance,"Harvard <br /> University, Humanities Center,May 2004. <br /> Lecture, "Digging `How I Got Over': Gospel Music and Everyday Resistance,"American <br /> Musicological Society-Houston,November 2003. <br /> Lectures, Brandeis University, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,"Department of Near Eastern and <br /> Judaic Studies, October 2003; "Black Sacred Music,"October 2002. <br /> Public Lecture, "Ten Black Sacred Songs Every American Should Know,"Brandeis University, <br /> part of series "Lift Every Voice: Black Sacred Music at Brandeis,"November 2003. <br /> Workshop, "History of Gospel Music,"North Carolina Central University, 1999. <br /> Lectures,Duke University,Department of Music,"Gospel Gangstaz,"2001;"Gospel Music in <br /> St. Louis," 1999; "Say Amen, Somebody," 1997. <br /> UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Music, 1997, "Gospel Music in Los Angeles" <br /> GRANTS/FELL O WSHI PSIA WARDS <br /> •Grants in support of"Lift Every Voice: Black Sacred Music at Brandeis,"series of lectures <br /> and performances, 2003: Dean of Arts and Sciences, Departments of Music, African and <br /> African American Studies, American Studies,and Religious Studies,Brandeis University, <br /> 2002-2004 <br /> •Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship,Joint appointment in Music, African and African American <br /> Studies, American Studies, Brandeis University, 2002-2004 <br /> •Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2002 <br /> •Research Travel Grants, Duke University, 2002, 1999, 1998 <br /> •Named Instructorship Award(Mary Lou Williams Instructor),Duke University,2000-2001 <br /> •Grants in support of Gospel Artist Residency,Duke University,2000-2001: Institute of the <br /> Arts,Hilda Howes Thomas Fund,Departments of Music,African and African American <br /> Page 3 of 4 <br />