Katharine Stuffelbeam

Dr. Katharine Stuffelbeam’s research focuses on women’s music in West Africa, music and gender, the African diaspora, music and social justice, and medical ethnomusicology. Her dissertation entitled Women’s Voices, Women’s Songs: Dagbamba Music, Gender, and Culture, is currently being edited for future publication. Photography and articles have appeared in books and journals, including Worlds of Music, African Music, and Ethnomusicology Review. Dr. Stuffelbeam has presented ethnographic research, based on her fieldwork in Northern Ghana among the Dagbamba, at international conferences in the UK, Canada, and around the US. She was previously a Teaching Fellow in Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She performed with UCLA ensembles for African music and the symphonic and chamber choirs. While in Boston, she performed as a percussionist, vocalist, and dancer with the Kiniwe Ensemble and the Agbekor Society. Currently she sings soprano in the London Philharmonic Choir.