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Sherrie
Tucker (Ph.d History of Consciousness,
UC Santa Cruz 1999, MA Women's Studies, San Francisco State University 1994)
is Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Kansas, where
she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on popular culture, cultural
studies, oral history and ethnography, jazz studies, and theories of gender
and race. She is co-editor, with David Katzman, of the peer-reviewed journal,
American Studies. In 2004-2005, she was the Louis Armstrong Visiting
Professor at the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University. Her research
interests converge in overlaps of jazz studies, feminist theory, gender
and sexuality studies, theories of race and ethnicity, oral history, and
historiography. She is the author of the award-winning book, Swing Shift:
"All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s (Duke, 2000). Her publications
on gender and jazz historiography include chapters in edited volumes: Ajay
Heble and Daniel Fischlin, eds., The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz Improvisation,
and Communities in Dialogue (2004), Chip Whitesell and Sophie Fuller,
eds., Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (University of
Illinois, 2002), and Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois, Unequal Sisters:
A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women’s History (Routledge, 2000),
and in journals including Black Music Research Journal, American
Music, Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Oral
History Review. She has conducted oral histories for the Smithsonian
Jazz Oral History Project, and recently conducted a feminist research study
on gender and women in New Orleans jazz for the New Orleans Jazz National
Historical Park. Her current projects include a second book project entitled
Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood
Canteen (Duke University Press). With Nichole T. Rustin, she is co-editing,
Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, a multi-authored
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