Michael A. Figueroa
PhD Student in Ethnomusicology
Department of Music
University of Chicago
mfigueroa@uchicago.edu
EDUCATION
BA in Musicology, Northwestern University, 2006
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Music and Mediterranean Cultural Exchange
Music in American Cultural History
EMPLOYMENT
Research Assistant, Winter 2007-
Norman Golb, University of Chicago
Academic Tutor, 2006-2007 Academic Year
StudySmart, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Department Assistant, 2006-2007 Academic Year
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Lil’ Kim’s Performance of Gender and the Economy of Signification”
Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Spring 2007 MIDSEM
Terre Haute, IN, April 20-22, 2007
“‘No Race, No Creed, No Color’?: Music and Memory in the IWW, 1910-1919”
Society for Ethnomusicology
51st Annual Conference – Decolonizing Ethnomusicology
Honolulu, HI, November 16-19, 2006
“White Music, White Workers: Accounting for the IWW’s Lack of Interracial Solidarity Before the First World War”
Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology
MIDSEM 2006 “Music, Memory and Migrancy”
Columbus, OH, April 28-30, 2006
AWARDS AND HONORS
2007-2012 University of Chicago Fellowship
2006 American Musicological Society Committee on Cultural Diversity Grant
2006 Northwestern University School of Music Travel Grant
2005-2006 Helen L. Teich Scholarship (selection by Northwestern Faculty)
2004-2005 Sigma Chi Leadership Scholarship
2003 Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society
2002 National Hispanic Recognition Program
FOREIGN LANGUAGES STUDIED
Hebrew, German, French, Spanish
AFFILIATIONS
Society for Ethnomusicology
Historical Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group
Popular Music Section
Midwest Regional Chapter
American Musicological Society
International Council for Traditional Music