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Tracy McMullen

Affiliation: Music
Associate Professor of Music, on leave for the 2024–2025 academic year

Tracy McMullen is a saxophonist, composer, and Associate Professor of Music at Bowdoin College. Her research and teaching focus on 20th and 21st century American culture and music, in particular how race, gender, sexuality, and class intersect with musical practice and discourse. Her 2019 book, Haunthenticity, won the National Endowment for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Book Award and her articles and chapters have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in the United States and Europe. She has served on national and international grant and prize committees for the NEA, AMS, and FWF (Austria); held fellowships at USC, IICSI (Canada), and the Berklee College of Music’s Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice; and is a voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards). As a saxophonist, she has performed nationally and internationally in jazz series and festivals and can be heard on the Kino Lorber, Cadence, Parma, and Plutonium labels, among others.
 
During the 2024-25 academic year, Dr. McMullen is a Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is writing her second book, The Courage to Hear: Jazz Traditions and the Price of the Ticket, which investigates the racial history of jazz education.
 
More information can be found at www.tracymcmullen.com
Haunthenticity book cover

Education

  • PhD, University of California San Diego
  • MM, University of North Texas
  • MA, University of North Texas
  • BA, Stanford University
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