Ingrid Monson

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Ingrid Monson
TitleQuincy Jones Professor of African-American Music
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Institutions Harvard University

Ingrid Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment, and Professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. [1]

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Education

Monson earned a Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied economics. She later earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from New York University. [1]

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